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Yesterday LI sent out a blast to respond to the RFP article in the CommonWealth magazine.  I responded to them with a counter article and will see if it is printed in an upcoming issue.  I have included it below.

To the Citizens of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island: Your lust for green power is putting Maine residents and their wilderness land in severe jeopardy.

I spent several weeks this summer going up to my camp, across an idyllic,…

My guess is the average person doesn't wake up each day and ask "how can I have more wind power"? However, I would guess there are a number of key legislators in Mass who may. Lots of money to pocket. They plan and plot for years. Nothing quite like free money.

The following, from several years ago, may be very revealing as to how much the everyday citizen in Massachusetts cares:

"Many of the large wind projects rejected in the RFP would have required huge new transmission lines to get their power to market, including Pattern Development’s King Pine and EDP Renewables’ Number Nine developments, both located in northern Maine.

“If I look at the northern part of the country, interconnection capacity and transmission capacity are significant limiting factors for wind,” Gabriel Alonso, chief executive of EDP Renewables North America, said earlier this month at an…

I am among the very few I know who question solar.  My perspective is based on the writing and research in Green Illusions, The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism by Ozzie Zehner.  A blog post by Paul Ackerman indicated that he has spoken to an aeronautical engineer about the downsides of solar.  I would very much appreciate receiving more detailed information, including sources.  Good and well-intended people I know simply are unable (and unwilling) to even…

"We are witnessing a transformation of World power!" is the headline.  All this when we are seeing those that have tried wind and solar for decades are now bailing out of it because of cost and reliability concerns.  In developing nations, it is hard to imagine wind and solar being compatible with their very limited transmission infrastructure.  More "Sky Is Falling" BS.…

The DE SHAW HEDGE FUND, a  "TAX EQUITY" and "Yieldco" derivatives  scammer of Taxpayer money and a Chief Player in the GREEN  RENEWABLE WIND SCAM" of Obama ,is now  attempting to cover its  financial ass and manage the failed and corrupt management teams of SunEdison and ex First Wind assets(and others) in the TERRAFORM Yieldco derivative scam and bankruptcy.

This is a definitive sign that the billions wasted in this subsidized fraud may come back to hurt them and their principals and…

The editor of ThinkProgress, the Soros-funded attack dog site, has been caught boasting to a billionaire liberal donor about how a smear campaign by one of his minions helped damage the career of a reputable climate scientist.…

All Maine wind projects plus the CMP and Emera transmission projects were rejected by Southern New England in the Clean Energy RFP!  The only project selected in Maine is Ranger Solar, located at Loring Air Force Base!  This is fabulous news for wind warriors, our ridgelines and mountaintops and a major blow to wind developers!!! Without expanded transmission, the constraints on new development will be substantial. …

If Hillary Clinton becomes our next president, expect an invasion of industrial wind development in your community that severely damages your property values, ruins the viewshed, and impacts your sleep patterns.

At WiseEnergy.org, Droz has a wealth of information available including a model wind energy…

I received notification (www.cleanenergyrfp.com) that the Evaluation Team has finalized its work and selected the winning bidders. The results will be announced in March 2017. Once the contracts are finalized, they will be sent to regulatory authorities for approval. 

It sounds as though the evaluation team's decisions affecting ratepayers will be made and communicated to the wind developers, but the public will be kept in the dark until the very last minute. This allows the wind developers maximum time to spring their surprise attack while giving everyday Mainers absolute minimum time to react to the news that an out sized wind factory is now targeted for their community. The government does not work for you; it works for…

Ever wonder why the press almost always lies to us about wind power via acts of commission and omission?…

When corruption rules .............Research is routinely rigged.

The annual estimated bird mortality from wind turbines in the US is claimed to be no more than 573,000. However I want to point out that this number used by the bird conservation groups, the media and Government agencies, was created from a culmination of fake industry studies using a variety of highly deceptive research methodology tricks.

Then using all this false data from the industry’s fake studies, a new…

Moosehead Region Futures Committee will host two informational meetings this week on the proposed wind power projects in the Moosehead Region. Meetings will be held in Jackman and Greenville on October 19 and 20, respectively, at 6:00 PM. Details are provided on the Facebook page.