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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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SouthCoast Wind Backed Out Of PPA Contracts Since 2023

SouthCoast Wind, formerly known as Mayflower Wind, initiated negotiations with the Town of Falmouth, Massachusetts, in 2019. .SouthCoast Wind backed out of the signed power purchase agreement and agreed in August 2023 to pay a $60.4 million penalty to …See More
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Willem Post commented on Dan McKay's blog post One More Time Why Government Can't be Trusted
"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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One More Time Why Government Can't be Trusted

Sneaking an energy bill into passage requires ingenuity. Sometimes it means delivering it during an abnormally timed committee session. Such is LD 1730, originally a "Concept Bill" which means a bill with no specifics, so no one knows what it is. LD 1730 escapes ambiguity at an opportune moment as the standard offer for electricity is now over 2 cents per kilowatt hour more. The best way to explain LD 1730 is as it was brought forward by three New Hampshire journalists, OPINION…See More
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SouthCoast Wind - Time To Bet Another Horse Massachusetts

Massachusetts SouthCoast Wind - Time To Bet Another Horse .SouthCoast Wind agreed to pay over $60 million (specifically $60.4M) to Massachusetts utilities (Eversource, National Grid, Unitil) in August 2023 to terminate its original power purchase agreements (PPAs) for its large offshore wind project. SouthCoast backed out of signed contracts. .Since 2024, the Power…See More
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"Mills is running for US Senator. She should be put in jail for 15 years"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post As federal home efficiency tax breaks expire, Maine moves ahead with its own incentives
"A quick, back of the envelope, computations reveal that the average electric customer of Maine, using 550 kwH per month has paid over $500 over the past 15 years to Efficiency Maine Trust. That's a lot of insulation. It's even more than…"
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Thinklike A. Mountain's blog post Maine Asst Minority Leader: No More Money to NGO's Defrauding Us
"Former Trump Spox Liz Harrington Calls Out DOJ — Demands “Real Accountability” for Minnesota Fraud Not “Social Media Outrage and Sternly Worded Letters and Hearings” High-profile arrests, Harrington said, are…"
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Willem Post's blog post Maine Republicans Scorch Mills Admin for Enabling Alleged Somali Medicaid Fraud at Gateway Community Services
"Former Trump Spox Liz Harrington Calls Out DOJ — Demands “Real Accountability” for Minnesota Fraud Not “Social Media Outrage and Sternly Worded Letters and Hearings” High-profile arrests, Harrington said, are…"
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Willem Post commented on Thinklike A. Mountain's blog post Maine Asst Minority Leader: No More Money to NGO's Defrauding Us
"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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"This articles shows, fires or not, battery systems to absorb midday solar and release it during evening peak hours, are absolutely not the way to store large quantities of electricity. At 40% annual average throughput, nearly impossible to achieve,…"
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One More Time Why Government Can't be Trusted

Posted by Dan McKay on January 2, 2026 at 7:13am — 1 Comment

Massachusetts: Why Is My Energy Bill So High

Posted by Frank Haggerty on December 28, 2025 at 10:32am — 5 Comments

Mainers: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words.

Posted by arthur qwenk on December 28, 2025 at 9:36am — 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.

Number%20Nine%20-%2010-22-15%20-%20Copy.pdf

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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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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    CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

     

    Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

    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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