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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post How Maine’s offshore wind went from ‘win-win’ to a political problem
"On snowy days, despite their huge installed capacity, MW, their generation, MWh, is way short of their “wished for” generation, due to “weather dependence” That solar generation would normally have a big bulge at noon-time,…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine board rejects mandate for 82% EV & hybrid sales by 2032
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post TROY JACKSON ALERT - Proposal to give lawmakers final say over Maine’s electric vehicle standards sails through committee
"On snowy days, despite their huge installed capacity, MW, their generation, MWh, is way short of their “wished for” generation, due to “weather dependence” That solar generation would normally have a big bulge at noon-time,…"
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arthur qwenk commented on Long Islander's blog post TROY JACKSON ALERT - Proposal to give lawmakers final say over Maine’s electric vehicle standards sails through committee
"These are very sick people in office, and it takes very angry citizens to get rid of them.. Not enough angry citizens yet it seems. If Mainers don't get off their seemingly passive posteriors, they will be left with the ass backward outcomes so…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post TROY JACKSON ALERT - Proposal to give lawmakers final say over Maine’s electric vehicle standards sails through committee
"This issue of any government entity, elected or non elected, forcing Maine people to buy EVs is naive  at best. The people of Maine have the power to choose whatever mode of transportation they prefer. Anyone willfully challenging this will…"
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post TROY JACKSON ALERT - Proposal to give lawmakers final say over Maine’s electric vehicle standards sails through committee
"Emerald Robinson on What Mike Gallagher and the Uniparty Are Plotting to Deny Trump His Presidency https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/emerald-robinson-what-mike-gallagher-uniparty-are-plotting/"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine board rejects mandate for 82% EV & hybrid sales by 2032
"Not mentioned but has anyone amongst the elites considered Maine folks can buy ICE cars in New Hampshire ."
Mar 22
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine board rejects mandate for 82% EV & hybrid sales by 2032
"Every legislator who voted for EV mandates must be voted out of office come next election. That is the only way to return to sanity Those idiots should not be anywhere near any government position, ever, banned for life!!"
Mar 22
Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine board rejects mandate for 82% EV & hybrid sales by 2032
"Enough with the mandates.  Let common sense and free markets prevail.  Oh wait...first, mandate that all politicians who supported this mandate purchase and drive EV's and nothing but EVs that are not subsidized by our tax dollars"
Mar 21
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine board rejects mandate for 82% EV & hybrid sales by 2032
Mar 21
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine board rejects mandate for 82% EV & hybrid sales by 2032
"BEP Executive Analyst William F. Hinkel told the Maine Wire that Board members Steve Pelletier and Barbara Vickery voted in favor of the rule change, while Bob Duchesne, Rob Sanford, Bob Marvinney, and Susan Lessard voted to reject the proposal.…"
Mar 21
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine board rejects mandate for 82% EV & hybrid sales by 2032
"The point is that carbon dioxide is not a harmful pollutant, it is harmless at many, many times above present levels and has never been at such high enough levels to be a planet change agent. It will always increase during a climate cycling warming…"
Mar 21
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post DUNCE ALERT: Federal government chooses final area in Gulf of Maine for offshore wind development
"Americans Ask If Biden Has Body Double After Face Looks Totally Different in 2 Different Vids Posted on Same Day https://www.westernjournal.com/americans-ask-biden-body-double-face-looks-totally-different-2-different-vids-posted-day/"
Mar 18
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Janet Mills proposes rolling back dune protections to build offshore wind port
"LD 2266, HP1456An Act Regarding Offshore Wind Terminals Located in Coastal Sand Dune Systems - Rep. Walter Runte of York March 18, 2024 Public Hearing 11:00 am Public Hearing"
Mar 17
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Electric Transmission Buildout Could Cost Americans Trillions of Dollars
"In case you haven't looked at the big picture lately, consider these facts: Production from Maine qualified renewable developments, as in law, sited on Maine land is presently averaging a total of 11,317,790 megawatt-hours per year. 11,875,708…"
Mar 17
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Janet Mills proposes rolling back dune protections to build offshore wind port
"Janet, what are you doing?  This climate diarrhea spewed out by you is getting real silly. Ruining an environmental gem to accomplish absolutely nothing but putting every Maine citizen into the energy poor house is the very definition of…"
Mar 16

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TROY JACKSON ALERT - Proposal to give lawmakers final say over Maine’s electric vehicle standards sails through committee

People the world over have rejected EV's and the Maine legislature still has its head in the sand. See passage below highlighted in bold. Wind and transmission pusher Troy Jackson knows the public doesn't want EV's and knows that the public's reasoning goes far, far beyond lack of charging stations. However, if subterfuge artists are allowed to legislatively ordain that Maine be carpeted with charging stations, their argument for EV's will then take on "But, but, but, we spent all this money…

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Posted on March 23, 2024 at 8:00am — 4 Comments

Maine board rejects mandate for 82% EV & hybrid sales by 2032

Every candidate for elected office in Maine must be grilled as to whether they would vote for ANY mandate for these almost universally despised EV's. To put in simply, enough already.…

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Posted on March 21, 2024 at 7:30am — 7 Comments

How Maine’s offshore wind went from ‘win-win’ to a political problem

March 18, 2024

by Billy Kobin

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.................2009: “This is among my highest priorities,” U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, said at the time. “It is a win-win for the state of Maine in terms of producing new jobs for the state and having the state lead the way in reducing our dependence on foreign oil.”.............................

For all the bipartisan praise more than a decade ago, offshore wind has become an…

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Posted on March 18, 2024 at 12:42pm — 1 Comment

DUNCE ALERT: Federal government chooses final area in Gulf of Maine for offshore wind development

Maine Public | By Nicole Ogrysko

Published March 15, 2024 at 11:04 AM EDT

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has finalized an area in the Gulf of Maine where a commercial offshore wind farm could be developed.

The area covers 2 million acres offshore from Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, ranging anywhere from 23 to 92 miles off the coast, BOEM said Friday.

The final area represents an 80% reduction from the section that…

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Posted on March 16, 2024 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

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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, Allen Barrette said…

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           

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At 8:08pm on March 27, 2010, Mary Elen Marucci said…
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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