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HOULTON, Maine – If you’re working on new energy construction projects that are friendlier to the environment, how do you know where to build them so they won’t have a harmful impact on wildlife? That is a question that Sarah Haggerty and the Maine Audubon Society have been trying to answer.

Maine Audubon sees one of the most pressing concerns regarding climate change as the impact it has on wildlife and natural habitats. As climate zones shift due to the increase in overall warming…

Vermont has a Comprehensive Energy Plan, CEP. The capital cost for implementing the CEP would be in excess of $1.0 billion/y for at least 33 years, per Energy Action Network annual report, not counting financing and replacements of short-life systems, such as EVs, heat pumps, battery storage systems, etc. See URLs.

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Here they go again. Just when you thought Big Wind had thrown in the towel (in Maine). 

Just when you thought they can no longer compete.

Just when everybody and his uncle is making more sensible energy decisions. 

Big Wind is Back in Maine.

Despite their insidious lobbying efforts, Big Wind's PTC got left out of the…

These pieces are all from Master Resource, They start on March 24 and are posted in reverse chronological order.

Stimulus IV: Last Chance for the Green New Deal?

https://www.masterresource.org/krebs-mark/stimulus-iv-green-new-deal/

Business Cronyism as Plunder: Bastiat Revisited…

Dylan Voorhees is stepping down as as the climate and clean energy director for the Natural Resources Council of Maine, leaving the organization after 14 years to work at a clean energy nonprofit group in Maine........

Friday will be the last day at NRCM for Voorhees, whose new job will be with the nonprofit Vermont Energy Investment Corp. A search is underway for his successor.

Correction: This story was updated at 1 p.m. Friday April 3, 2020 to indicate that Voorhees is…

The secretary of state invalidated hundreds of signatures that were collected to force a referendum on a hydropower transmission corridor, but enough remained to get the measure on the ballot.

Maine election officials invalidated hundreds more signatures that were collected to force a referendum on a $1 billion hydropower transmission corridor, but there were still enough valid signatures to surpass the threshold for a statewide vote in November.

The court-ordered…

(Image Credit : Wind Energy's Absurd )

Robert Bryce has been on the forefront of criticism of the heinous wind industry scam.  It was galling to see the wind industry put pressure on getting an extension of their heinous Production Tax Credit into the Covid-19 bill this week.

Please read this insightful article by Robert Bryce.…

Among the groups signing the letter to Congress are some familiar names:

National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Sierra Club, Environment America and the League of Conservation Voters

Read the letter and see all its signatories here:…

Jeff Brady | NPR News | March 24, 2020 | www.npr.org

Clean energy and climate advocates say the huge stimulus bill Congress is negotiating should address not only the economy, but also climate change. But a split over that appears to have contributed to delays in passing the bill.

“Democrats won’t let us fund hospitals or save small businesses unless they get to dust off the Green New Deal,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said…

Lisa Linowes - March 21, 2020

As the White House and Congress negotiate a massive Covid-19 stimulus, the wind and solar industries are pushing for more PTC/ITC extensions. They are shameful and our political class can't be trusted. This letter to Congressional leaders emphasizes why the subsidies should expire as promised in 2015.

We are among the millions of taxpayers who watched in stunned disbelief as Senator Grassley and others in leadership reneged on their…

Vermont has a Comprehensive Energy Plan, CEP. The capital cost for implementing the CEP would be in excess of $1.0 billion/y for at least 33 years, per Energy Action Network annual report. See URLs.

http://eanvt.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/EAN-2015-Annual-Report-Low-Res-Final.pdf …

The state supreme court has rejected a challenge of utility regulators’ approval of a 145-mile power transmission corridor that would serve as a conduit for hydropower from Canada.

NextEra Energy Resources appealed to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court after the Public Utilities Commission granted its approval to the $1 billion New England Clean Energy Connect.

In its unanimous ruling, the panel brushed aside NextEra’s complaint that the PUC made…

The mammoth Number Nine wind complex envisioned for Maine may be presently on hold given a current lack of transmission lines. The project's website is here: https://numberninewindfarm.com/

This project was recently noted on this site as being part of "751 Megawatts of Proposed Wind for…

A subsidiary of Greenbacker Renewable Energy has bought the rights to build an over 15MW wind farm in the US state of Maine for an undisclosed price.

The 15.3MW RoxWind project has been developed by Palmer Management Corporation and other unnamed parties.

It is contracted to sell electricity through long-term off-take agreements with four local municipal utilities.

RoxWind is expected to come online in the third quarter of 2021.

Sheppard…

NECECkiller.pdf

As legislators got to their desks an hour ago, they received a piece of legislation which would order the PUC to reverse its decision that granted a “certificate” to the NECEC. 

This is even more brazen than the Wind Act.

Vermont has a Comprehensive Energy Plan, CEP. The capital cost for implementing the CEP would be in excess of $1.0 billion/y for at least 33 years, per Energy Action Network annual report. See URLs.

http://eanvt.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/EAN-2015-Annual-Report-Low-Res-Final.pdf …

>Added nearly 1000 megawatts of wind 2007 - 2019

Wind Produced 2,450,000 megawatthours 2019…