How to Fight the Big Wind Onslaught 



Calvin Luther Martin, January 2009 





Yesterday I turned 61. I've been fighting the wind bastards well over 4 years. Four years devoted to almost nothing else. Put a big book on hold with Yale Univ. Press for this. In those years I've answered thousands of emails from people around the world. Japan. Cyprus. Norway. Sweden. Czechoslovakia. Australia. New…

We will be before Judge Horton of the Business and Consumer Court for the second time. This past May he agreed with us that there was non-compliance and ordered the Clifton Planning Board to reconsider and make additional findings regarding some sound issues. They managed to make findings that affirmed their original 2011 permit approval. We are now representing ourselves and have written a brief and reply brief for the Court, and will be presenting oral arguments this Wednesday in Room 203…

http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/Michael_Cuzzi___Now_competitive__wind_power_could_advance_LePage_s_energy_agenda_.html

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PITTSBURGH – Some of the world’s top climate scientists say wind and solar energy won’t be enough to head off extreme global warming, and they’re asking environmentalists to support the development of safer nuclear power as one way to cut fossil fuel pollution.

Read more at:…

One of the most controversial issues emerging from the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report is the failure of global climate models to predict a hiatus in warming of global surface temperatures since 1998. ...  A new paper published…

Talks are underway about a new transmission line across Maine

http://www.pressherald.com/business/Canadian_utility_hints_at_deals_with_U_S__.html

Don’t forget Monhegan’s voice in debate about offshore wind

http://bangordailynews.com/2013/11/08/opinion/dont-forget-monhegans-voice-in-debate-about-offshore-wind/

Hancock County uses windpower funds for communications equipment

http://bangordailynews.com/2013/11/07/news/hancock/hancock-county-uses-windpower-funds-for-communications-equipment/?ref=latest

Opponents of Oakfield wind farm file lawsuit in federal court, worried about eagles and salmon

http://bangordailynews.com/2013/10/29/news/aroostook/opponents-of-oakfield-wind-farm-file-lawsuit-in-federal-court-worried-about-eagles-and-salmon/

and article on same subject in…

Foes file last-minute lawsuit against pending Maine wind farm

The complaint says construction of turbine pads, roads and transmission lines will degrade streams that support Atlantic salmon.

By Tux Turkel …

Some people say that wind power is good for the world and the global warming.

This photo shows the condition of the air over mainland China on 21 October, 2013.

Incidentally, China has the most installed wind power of any nation on…

AS  WE  HAVE SAID  SINCE  THE INCEPTION OF OUR  GROUP , INDUSTRIAL  WIND  POWER REQUIRES  COSTLY  NEW  TRANSMISSION  LINES  TO  BRING ELECTRONS FROM ISOLATED  WIND  FARMS INTO  THE GRID.

THOSE  NEW  LINES  RAISE THE  COST  OF ELECTRICITY FOR ALL N-E  RATEPAYERS !

WE APPRECIATE MARK  BROWN ARTICLE AS  IT CONNECTS THE CONCERNS OF  TWO  GROUPS OF  INDIVIDUALS  :RATEPAYERS  AND WIND POWERS  OPPONENTS ; WE  ARE ON  THE SAME  PAGE : THE  WRONG ECONOMICS  OF WIND POWER…

Don't let them in Maine. 

"One of the early investments reported by Matt Taibbi in his July 2009 Rolling Stone Magazine article –– The Great American Bubble Machine, warning that Goldman Sachs is "helping…

BEING REPUBLISHED TODAY, 10/27/13, in light of known comments not making it to the Maine Sunday Telegram article on wind in Aroostook County. http://www.pressherald.com/news/Big_county__big_ambitions_for_wind_.html

(First posted 4/19/13) after a number of…

The BBC reports that one turbine is down so far and the bulk of the storm hasn't hit yet.

Read all about it...

There have been several times when comments I have made have been "reviewed" and rejected.  I have taken them back and revised them slightly and then they have been posted.  I use Disquis instead of Facebook.  Last week I was replying to a particularly smarmy lib who takes delight in being belittling and nasty.  He has been on for a long time and has always been the same. "Yessah!"  I think you know who I mean.  I contacted the BDN about it…

THE  LITTERING OF  NORTHERN  MAINE IS  ON  ITS  WAY ,,,, ITS  PASTORAL CHARM ,QUIETUDE ,PRISTINE  NIGHT SKY ARE BEING  NEEDLESSLY  SACRIFICED FOR THE  RICHES  OF  A  TINY  HANDFUL AS  THE CITIZENRY  HAS  BEEN  SOLD  A  BILL  OF  GOODS .

JOHN  BALDACCI AND  BEFORE HIM ANGUS KING BROKE  MAINE'S  FISCAL  COFFERS AND  NOW  WITH  THEIR GRAND DESIGN  OF  LEGISLATION WHICH  MANDATES WIND  TURBINES , ACCOMPLISHED BY  THE  CREATION OF  LD 2283 IN 2008  ...THEY  ARE  DESTROYING  THE VERY …

The Japanese are building Floating Wind Farms to put in deeper waters....

"What sets the project apart from other offshore wind farms around the world, consortium officials say, is that its turbines, and even the substation and electrical transformer equipment, float on giant platforms anchored to the seabed. That technology greatly expands potential locations for offshore wind farms, which have been fixed into the seabed, limiting their location to shallow…

Connecticut regulators approve contract for 250-megawatt wind farm in Aroostook County

http://bangordailynews.com/2013/10/24/business/connecticut-regulators-approve-contract-for-250-megawatt-wind-farm-in-aroostook-county/?ref=regionstate