About Friends of Maine's Mountains
Vision: Maine will be a state that has protected its natural resources while providing effective and reliable energy and power solutions that lower those costs to less than the national average.Mission: Friends of Maine’s Mountains (FMM) is a research and educational organization whose mission is to research, formulate and promote effective and reliable energy and power solutions that will protect Maine’s natural resources (especially Maine’s mountains), as well as Maine’s industries and private property owners, while also ensuring that those solutions have a positive environmental and economic impact for Maine people and businesses.
What we do: FMM advances its mission using a combination of research, litigation and public outreach. FMM researches conventional and alternative power possibilities in Maine, and then promotes and advances these findings to the people of Maine, the environmental and business communities, the legislative, judicial and executive branches of Maine State government, and to the state’s media.
FMM’s products include publications, articles, conferences, media expertise, and policy briefings.
Donor Supported: Governed by an independent Board of Directors, Friends of Maine’s Mountains is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, tax-exempt organization with IRS 501(c)3 status. FMM also has a Board of Advisors that provides experienced and expert counsel to the organization in the energy and power arenas. FMM relies on generous support from individuals, corporations, and foundations to fund its work. Specifically, your donation will help FMM:
- Support legislative and regulatory changes to protect Maine people from the harmful visual, environmental and health impacts of industrial wind turbines.
- Support individuals in their participation in the regulatory permitting process.
- Collect factual data that documents the real impact of industrial wind power on electrical costs, real estate values, the environment and the health of humans and wildlife alike.
- Oppose federal tax breaks and subsidies that drive the development of industrial wind projects on Maine’s mountains.
- Advocate for more efficient production, use and conservation of energy.