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"Another example of government creating a problem and rather than reversing themselves, they will inflict ratepayers with even more costly solutions.
Solar, even on the sunniest day, shuts down rapidly at sunset, at the time of day when the evening…"
"Not sure what he means by energy efficient upgrades over the years. Most people who have installed these upgrades have replaced the avoided energy with devices, over the years, to match the saved energy. Less than 1% of households in Maine use…"
"Epstein Media Distractions On Warp Speed https://www.infowars.com/posts/epstein-media-distractions-on-warp-speed"
"Jack Shapiro lies again. Wind and solar get on the grid because they receive out of markets payments through renewable energy credits and investment tax credits. To get these credits they must find a way to get their output to the grid. They bid…"
"Can you say Cabal?
“The directive is clear to get this line built. That is what the legislature wants to see. And we feel like we have flexibility in how to do that to maximize the benefit for Maine consumers,” Bartlett…"
"Maine electricity comes from two markets that clash with each other to the disadvantage of the weary payers of utility bills.
Entangled within the traditional market where generators supply their output by a competitive bidding process is the…"
""This is an unusually high oil burn period," Dan Dolan.
Maybe, but you had better get used to it, because the more wind, solar and battery storage added to the grid, the more oil that will be stored and burnt to backstop the…"
"The extreme, leftist Portland Press Herald is behind an onerous paywall.
It usually puts out the government/ industry PR talking points of wind and solar that woke, leftist, Democrat bureaucrats and self-serving Democrat and RINO Politicians repeat…"
"Thanks, Long Islander. I am sure once the covered up Aroostook Wind Project is brought into the sunlight, people will send the PUC a piece of their minds."
"Poor confused PPH writer, it's the Democrats who will have their careers brought to a halt thanks to the online "Maine Wire" and the " Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power- Maine""
"More of the same tactics -- the emminent domain fake study/legislation and the codification of the Aroostook project in legislation - they're walling out the public from any attempt at oversight - the NECEC battle comes to mind -…"
"Captive Legislator Lawrence, who knows nothing about the economics of energy systems, is just a useful, sloganeering, idiot mouthpiece.
He has been fed the Kool Aid PR crap of self-serving bureaucrats and foreign and domestic wealthy elites with…"
"Frump sponsor said his bill wasn't about taking over CMP and Versant, but one wonders why Seth Berry of Our Power was there offering opinions of what should be included in this bill. "
"Frump sponsor also said he was agnostic to any generation resource that would flow through these transmission lines proposed with his bill. That is an out and out lie, as he stated further into his testimony that is favorite generation type was…"
"Bait and Switch
The frump sponsor of this bill used the old "bait and switch" from entering it as a "Concept Bill" last year March 4, 2025. This bill had no language with it until January 14, 2026 and a public hearing…"
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Another puff piece: New England's largest battery storage opens in Gorham
Where is mention of cost, who pays, alternate use for funds, drawbacks????? BTW, the following quote is excerpted from Maine Public's mission statement:
"We will be recognized throughout Maine and beyond as an organization that has made a distinct difference by focusing in a disciplined manner on the issues most important to Maine and by being relentless in pursuit…
ContinuePosted on February 11, 2026 at 7:06pm — 1 Comment
Environment Maine: Renewable energy accounts for 88% of new U.S. electrical capacity in 2025
These NGO's almost NEVER tell the full story. Note how they use the term CAPACITY rather than output. Almost everything produced by these so called self-appointed "environmental groups" is misleading propaganda. So the question is - are they getting paid to do this and who pays them how much?
Renewable energy accounts for 88%
February 10, 2026
In the first eleven months of 2025, renewable energy sources…
ContinuePosted on February 11, 2026 at 4:13pm — 1 Comment
Paid climateer declares more wind power a solution to electricity demand during stretches of cold
Cold weather strains New England electric grid
Maine Public | By Peter McGuire
Published February 9, 2026
"..................................Continuing those programs, replacing baseboard electric heaters with more efficient heat pumps and installing more…
ContinuePosted on February 11, 2026 at 10:30am — 3 Comments
Maine again looks north for onshore wind, but full grid integration will have to wait
Consider the source when reading. The second paragraph includes the standard total BS claim about powering X # of homes. (They don't tell you that's a fake theoretical number never attained which means ZERO homes can be powered.) The third paragraph states "Maine has been trying for years to build new renewable generation in its most remote northern counties, Aroostook and Washington, an area with enormous potential wind...." (No, not Maine, just really…
ContinuePosted on February 10, 2026 at 9:08am — 2 Comments
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- At 9:10pm on June 17, 2015,
Eskutassis said…
The arguments we have with those on the other side are really amazing. I saw yours on the PPH article. I posted one too.
- At 11:13am on July 17, 2013,
Peter Beckford said…
Yo Long Islander, can you do anything to give my blog post the widest audience, like emailing it on to everyone or something? Thanks a lot, Peter Beckford
We appreciate the steady diet of posts from you
- At 8:03pm on July 14, 2012,
Wind Scam said…
- Wind Scam Artists strategies to destroy "America the Beautiful".This is long, but it is worth scanning all of it. Be sure to download and search for your Reps. and Senators too. Don't forget to share with all.This shows the backroom dealings of these wind scam artists and our politicians ramming this "Rip Off" unreliable and unproductive wind energy crap down our thro@@t.Don't miss there campaign to save wind jobs that cost the American Taxpayer in excess of $8,000,000 each also, why because it come our of our wallets and purses.Be sure to check out all their propaganda goals to destroy the Beautiful United States and make each of us pay for this destruction from "Fake Renewable Energy".
- At 7:31am on February 29, 2012,
Ok lets update Americas status first there are millions of abandoned homes from foreclosure, there is less electricity for lights,furnaces,etc. being used today so we all can relax with the scare of congesting our grids. There is plenty of current being generated at the moment. So what steps do we take to rid our lands of the dinosaur turbines that this foreign company called first wind first and they are not from New England originally folks. The office in Boston is just a front to be what they thought was going to be action. Obama our fearless leader wants to keep this going,The wasteful spending, allowing the companies to change names as fast as the sun sets,how they do business,How they are awarded these funds I'll never understand because there is in my opinion no practical method in deciding who gets funding for these energy projects. I am disgusted at this administration, If you were working in my company I"d fire you for insubordination, you know your not suppose to use public money for your personal interests. It has to be personal because it surely is not a public interest Shame on you ----- Got Vision
- At 11:28am on November 25, 2010, freemont tibbetts gave Long Islander a gift…
- At 2:28pm on November 24, 2010, Denise Hall gave Long Islander a gift…
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- At 8:08pm on March 27, 2010,
- HI, Ita a geodatabase I am building with two others as a project in intro GIS. Has to do with state and local ordinance rules affecting possible sites in a particular town. I enjoyed your picture gallery. Mary Ellen
- At 10:52pm on March 14, 2010,
Joanne Moore said…
- Thanks for the link to the report. Geeze, these guys say just what industry pays them to say. Wow! The Name Norm Famous reminds me of one of the Lounge Lizards wannabe types. Very interesting to know he is the husband of Marcia Spenser-Famous. I had a sneaking suspicion he was. The name is unusual, if not famous. Heh. Another conflict of interest, ya think?
- At 11:28am on January 24, 2010,
Art Brigades said…
- Investigative reporting.... We need to whip this beast a little better.
Interesting to read Tux Turkel's piece this morning. While his focus was narrowly on noise, and only at Vinalhaven, it surely helped puncture the huge bubble just a bit. More noteworthy than what he wrote was what he did not write.
How he could interview Hanna Pingree and NOT ask her why she withdrew her turbine noise bill is either abject stupidity or laziness. Legislators regularly rush to the statehouse with a new bill whenever a constituent says "there oughtta be a law..."
Could it be that he didn't ask the Speaker of the House (who can get anything she wants to a public hearing) why she doesn't think this is worthy of a bill, or why she isn't raising holy hell over getting a hearing???
It would be one thing if her district was Old Orchard Beach, but these are HER constituents who are under the bus!! Investigative reporting??? Please. One doesn't need to be a political veteran to know that the ties that bind among the Pingrees, Baldaccis, Adamses, and the wind mafia are very tight indeed. Turn a blind eye to a monumental calamity in your state, district, and town why? To repay political favors? Now that's a story that'll sell papers.
Turkel needs to pursue this angle. He also needs to expose the tragic economic realities of this trojan horse that has been wheeled into Maine.
Maine as Third World Country:
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
******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********
(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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