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BOWERS PROJECT DEFEATED!!

AN EPIC FAIL FOR FIRST WIND

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court issued its decision denying Champlain Wind LLC's appeal concerning a permit for its Bowers Wind Project in Carroll Plt and Kossuth Twp. Champlain Wind is a subsidiary of Maine's largest wind developer, First Wind. The decision marks the end of a six year process of hearings and appeals which pitted the wind developer against local residents, professional guides, traditional sporting camp owners and loyal visitors to Maine's famed Downeast Lakes Region. Spearheading the opposition was the Partnership for the Preservation of the Downeast Lakes Watershed (PPDLW).

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https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/bowers-wind-project-defeated

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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Trump deal scraps two Gulf of Maine wind energy leases
"EXPENSIVE FLOATING OFFSHORE WINDMILLS IN IMPOVERISHED STATE OF MAINE https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/floating-offshore-wind-systems-in-the-impoverished-state-of-maine By Willem Post . Despite the meager floating offshore MW in the…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Trump deal scraps two Gulf of Maine wind energy leases
"THE IMPOVERISHED, DYSFUNCTIONAL STATE OF MAINE https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-dysfunctional-state-of-maine By Willem Post. The over-taxed, over-regulated, already-impoverished Maine people are super-screwed, trying to make ends…"
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Frank Haggerty posted a blog post

Massachusetts Wind Contracts Due June 30, 2026

June 30, 2026, is the deadline that represents the multiple delayed target dates for finalizing Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) for Massachusetts' fourth offshore wind procurement..SouthCoast Wind, formerly Mayflower Wind, canceled its signed…See More
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Trump deal scraps two Gulf of Maine wind energy leases
"This is great news for Maine, because the production cost of those floating windmills would have been about 40 c/kWh, no subsidies, about 20 c/kWh  with the equivalent of 50% state and federal subsidies, plus there would have been HIDDEN COSTS…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Trump deal scraps two Gulf of Maine wind energy leases
"The relevance of the NRCM is eroding fast thanks to Jack Shapiro. Invenergy is ditching wind energy for American-made energy-dense, reliable resources. The golden age of real energy is leaving Jack grasping for straws. Good bye, Jack, your…"
14 hours ago
Dan McKay posted a blog post

How a Competitive Electricity Market Went Bad for New England

Here ISO-NE explains how the different types of generation compete to operate in the wholesale market.The key points to a truely competitive market are referenced by ISO-NE as:"Resource owners are motivated to offer prices close to their actual costs. If they bid too high, they may not be selected at all.""Lower‑cost and more efficient resources are more likely to run and earn money.""Over time, this encourages investment in newer, cheaper technologies, which can help lower prices for…See More
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Nuclear energy in New England, once unthinkable, now indispensable
"With such a small amount of production into the grid and such huge impacts of costs, the removal of renewables should precede the addition of nuclear. The government programs that favored wind,solar and battery storage have been deemed failures,…"
Wednesday
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Nuclear energy in New England, once unthinkable, now indispensable
"New Evidence Confirms Democrat Senate Candidate Graham Platner Led Far Left Paramilitary Training Group https://robinsonreport.substack.com/p/new-evidence-confirms-democrat-senate"
Tuesday
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Dan McKay's blog post A New Scam Invading Maine
"New Evidence Confirms Democrat Senate Candidate Graham Platner Led Far Left Paramilitary Training Group https://robinsonreport.substack.com/p/new-evidence-confirms-democrat-senate"
Tuesday
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on arthur qwenk's blog post Defective Thinking Has Taken Over in Maine, in Energy and Politics ,and It Shows
"New Evidence Confirms Democrat Senate Candidate Graham Platner Led Far Left Paramilitary Training Group https://robinsonreport.substack.com/p/new-evidence-confirms-democrat-senate"
Tuesday
Willem Post commented on Dan McKay's blog post The Government Schemes are Criminal, Carbon Dioxide Has Been Declared a Beneficial Component of the Atmosphere by the EPA
"Politicians and bureaucrats are eager to prove they are right about solar and wind. They just load electricity of traditional plants with onerous burdens to make them look more expensive. It is an evil game that impoverishes New Englanders"
Tuesday
Dan McKay posted a blog post

The Government Schemes are Criminal, Carbon Dioxide Has Been Declared a Beneficial Component of the Atmosphere by the EPA

How does solar help itself to your money while natural gas plants set the price of wholesale electricity? The dastardly secret is RGGI. Natural gas plants prices fall during the times of day that solar enters it's output to the grid. This is great for those who say solar causes a drop in wholesale electric prices, but there is more happening behind the scenes. RGGI is a tax on fossil fuel plants. This tax is attached to production costs of fossil fuel plants causing a rise in the wholesale…See More
Tuesday
Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine Monitor: ‘Different this time’: Wind farms and transmission lines poised to come to northern Maine
"Dan, you hit the nail squarely on the head, as usual."
Monday
Dan McKay posted a blog post

A New Scam Invading Maine

Here is the new scam invading Maine:New To Maine. Join the 200,000+ people who have signed up for 100% clean energy with CleanChoiceHere is a subscriber's response:Beware of CleanChoice Energy- SCAM!Company says it gets all it’s energy from wind and solar, then obscenely gouges customers who just want to be environmentally responsible. Their kilowatt rate arbitrarily increases. My last bill from them- $.24 per kilowatt, FOUR TIMES Potomac Edison’s regular rate of $.06 per kilowatt. Thieves!See More
Monday
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine Monitor: ‘Different this time’: Wind farms and transmission lines poised to come to northern Maine
"Let's no forget the two setup men responsible for this debacle, Troy Jackson and Philip Bartlett III. Jackson slammed a bill through the legislature that practically forces the PUC accept this project, the only time a specific project generated…"
Monday
Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine Monitor: ‘Different this time’: Wind farms and transmission lines poised to come to northern Maine
"Different how?  Same old B.S. only now there's lots of evidence to prove it's pure B.S."
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Massachusetts Wind Contracts Due June 30, 2026

Posted by Frank Haggerty on June 19, 2026 at 10:34am

A New Scam Invading Maine

Posted by Dan McKay on June 15, 2026 at 5:28am — 1 Comment

Defective Engineering Takes Over ISO-NE

Posted by Dan McKay on June 13, 2026 at 6:38am

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Posted by Thinklike A. Mountain on June 9, 2026 at 9:24am — 1 Comment

Who is EDPR?

EDPR, hoping to build Maine's largest wind factory in The County, likes to say they're from Texas. Click on the box above and you'll see their parent, Energias de Portugal is owned by China Three Gorges which is owned by the People's Republic of China. Protect the United States Treasury from foreign subsidy feeders and protect The County - just say NO.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Three_Gorges_Corporation

Maine Governor's Energy Office's Patrick Woodcock letter seemingly endorsing EDPR's Number Nine wind project.

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NRCM's CO2 - From A Different Point of View The PDF document at the following link put NRCM's own published CO2 information into the perspective of the Maine woods and shows the terrible tradeoff that is industrial wind in Maine.  

Putting Maine's Wind Power Goals into Proper Perspective

 

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Wind Turbine Blade Slices Through Entire Car, Kills 2 in Grisly Accident…Continue

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Has anyone got any research data or articles or studies on infrasound and wind turbines ?  Is it a coincidence wind developers compare turbine sound with refrigerators ? ...................................…Continue

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    Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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    (excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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    Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

    Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

    "Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

    https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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