Former Governor Angus King has challenged Maine to build an enormous off-shore wind farm to power the entire state.
At a speech he gave yesterday at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, King said the state should build a $15 billion network of 1,000 wind turbines 26 miles off the Maine coast to break the state’s dependence on oil and thwart an economic catastrophe, the Portland Press Herald reports.
He said by 2020, oil could soar to $300 a barrel. “Filling up your [car’s gas] tank will be $200. To fill up the [heating oil] tank in your basement with oil — $2,000,” the paper quoted King as saying.
King is working on two wind farm projects proposed for the mountains of Western Maine.
