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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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Dan McKay commented on Frank Haggerty's blog post Vineyard Wind sues GE Vernova: What About Massachusetts
"The developer of a major Massachusetts offshore wind farm is suing its turbine manufacturer seeking to force it to stay with the project. Vineyard Wind filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Massachusetts against GE Renewables. That comes after the parent…"
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Dan McKay posted a blog post

ISO-NE Engineers Have Credibility Problems. What are They Smoking?

ISO-NE Engineers Claim the Aroostook County Wind Project will improve reliability to the grid, therefore the costs of the proposed 2+ billion dollar transmission project in Maine will be socialized as Regionalized costs. What are they smoking?"The ISO makes a determination of whether the project costs should be regionalized and/or localized":Regionalized costs—Projects that will improve reliability throughout the region provide a benefit for all of New England, and their costs are shared by the…See More
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Frank Haggerty commented on Frank Haggerty's blog post Vineyard Wind sues GE Vernova: What About Massachusetts
"Vineyard Wind I           Plaintiff  GE Renewables US  Defendant  Request for Hearing  Vineyard Wind  Suffolk County Superior Court on April 8, 2026, seeking a preliminary injunction and…"
16 hours ago
Willem Post commented on Willem Post's blog post Wind power is not the harmless energy source liberals said it was
"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…"
23 hours ago
Frank Haggerty posted a blog post

Vineyard Wind sues GE Vernova: What About Massachusetts

Vineyard Wind claims GE owes $800 million for years of delays and impacts from the catastrophic blade failure in 2024..The project was a boondoggle from the beginning. The state of Massachusetts should share blame for the blade failure..The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, a quasi-state agency, built the Wind Technology Testing Center in Charlestown, Massachusetts.…See More
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Willem Post commented on Willem Post's blog post Wind power is not the harmless energy source liberals said it was
"EUROPE AIMS TO WEAKEN THE US WITH EXPENSIVE OFFSHORE WINDMILLS THAT PRODUCE EXPENSIVE, LOW-QUALITY ELECTRICITY  https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/europe-attempts-to-entangle-us-with-expensive-offshore-windmills By Willem Post . Net…"
23 hours ago
Willem Post posted a blog post

Wind power is not the harmless energy source liberals said it was

Wind power is not the harmless energy source liberals said it washttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/wind-power-is-not-the-harmless-energy-source-liberals-said-it-wasRobert Bridge Illegal logging, huge decommissioning costs, and ecological damage plague the ‘green’ generatorsThey may appear innocuous – even elegant – on the landscape as they collect power from…See More
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Willem Post commented on Dan McKay's blog post ISO-NE Under the Direction of NESCOE is like Parents Taking Commands From Their 2 Year Old Toddlers
"Trump’s ‘billion-dollar giveaway’? There was no giveaway, as the leftist Media would have you believe with their slanted reported. During the disastrous Biden regime, the French Total Energies had paid about $1 billion to the US to…"
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Willem Post commented on Thinklike A. Mountain's blog post Governor Silent as Chinese Cannabis Cartels Swallow Rural Maine — Some With Her Brother’s Help
"Trump’s ‘billion-dollar giveaway’? There was no giveaway, as the leftist Media would have you believe with their slanted reported. During the disastrous Biden regime, the French Total Energies had paid about $1 billion to the US to…"
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Willem Post commented on Dan McKay's blog post The More Electricity Sales Go Down, The Higher The Rates Utilities Are Allowed To Set By Maine Law
"Trump’s ‘billion-dollar giveaway’? There was no giveaway, as the leftist Media would have you believe with their slanted reported. During the disastrous Biden regime, the French Total Energies had paid about $1 billion to the US to…"
yesterday
Willem Post commented on Thinklike A. Mountain's blog post Governor Silent as Chinese Cannabis Cartels Swallow Rural Maine — Some With Her Brother’s Help
"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…"
Saturday
Willem Post commented on Dan McKay's blog post The More Electricity Sales Go Down, The Higher The Rates Utilities Are Allowed To Set By Maine Law
"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…"
Saturday
Dan McKay posted a blog post

The More Electricity Sales Go Down, The Higher The Rates Utilities Are Allowed To Set By Maine Law

Numbers don"t lie:  CMP distributed 4,053,651,315 kilowatt hours in 2021 and rates assessed was 5.9 cents per kilowatt hourCMP distributed 3,660,694,909 kilowatt hours in 2024 and rates assessed balloned to 11.4 cents per kilowatt hourMaine law explicitly allows for the use of a decoupling mechanism to determine electric delivery rates. Under Title 35-A, §3195 of the Maine Revised Statutes, the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is authorized to establish reasonable rate-adjustment…See More
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Willem Post commented on Thinklike A. Mountain's blog post Governor Silent as Chinese Cannabis Cartels Swallow Rural Maine — Some With Her Brother’s Help
"Left-wing Democrats got crushed in Illinois primaries.  Progressive Democratic candidates lost across the board Tuesday night, many of whom ran on platforms opposing Israel. The results signal trouble for insurgent leftist…"
Tuesday
Willem Post commented on Dan McKay's blog post ISO-NE Under the Direction of NESCOE is like Parents Taking Commands From Their 2 Year Old Toddlers
"Nuclear, 1000 MW plants with a single reactor, or multiple small reactors, will need huge subsidies and federal loan guarantees Grid topography will need to be reconfigured to cover widely distributed wind and solar and central nuclear, a very…"
Apr 7
Willem Post commented on Thinklike A. Mountain's blog post Governor Silent as Chinese Cannabis Cartels Swallow Rural Maine — Some With Her Brother’s Help
"Governor/sister Mills and Attorney/brother Mills never talk to each other, to ensure perfect deniability  The FBI should immediately impound all communications between these two and others. I bet huge state and federal dollars are involved"
Apr 6

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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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    CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

     

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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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