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There has been much said recently about removing many dams on our many rivers. Over the recent years, we have lost many important industries and businesses in our state. A major reason for these labor-intensive businesses leaving Maine is the high cost of electricity. A major means of supplying electricity have been the dams with turbines.
So what do we do? We tear out the dams so fish can go upstream. I think we need to stop doing this and put larger and more turbines at these dams. I am a fisherman, but know that for Maine to be a place for industries and businesses, like our once many paper mills, to come and exist, we must reduce the cost of electricity in our state.
To tear out our existing dams is the wrong way to go, I believe. Instead, put in more and larger turbines at our dams. That will help lower the cost of electricity. I believe that solar farms, wasting huge amounts of land, do little help in producing electricity as do the wind farms.
Richard Leonard
Veazie
