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CMP (Iberdrola) and Emera Maine want to produce energy again! This should come as no surprise for those of us who follow energy closely. Both CMP and Emera have gone through a Corporate restructuring which may allow this to happen if the Maine legislature doesn't comply.…

This is a post I made a few years ago.  It seems it needs to be addressed again with all the AGW decisions that have been made by some pretty dubious scientists and some very political non-scientists.

I have a few questions for the AGW alarmists that are really puzzling. 

The IPCC has based all their science on a computer model comparing average global temperatures since the turn of the last century (100 years +).…

When one looks close and reads the fine print, the Freedom of Information act is really a Freedom From Information Act for businesses like the wind industry. This is how hundreds of thousands of raptor carcasses have been hidden by the wind industry. This terrible number includes the wind industry's addition to the 31000 plus eagle carcasses sent to the Denver Repository since 1997.  A gruesome number growing…

Environment Maine is trying to buy their way back into the good graces of the wind industry hoping they can get back on the dole again by rallying Mainers around fighting climate change. Maine is now the greenest state in America.  We are already 60 % renewable energy. Why should we continue to destroy our mountain tops so other states can meet their own renewable energy mandates?  To help Environment Maine can fill their coffers?…

Mike Bond's "Killing Maine" is a true winner. In fact it just took first prize in Fiction at the New England Book Festival. Mr. Bond's great gifts as a writer become abundantly clear very soon into this masterful book. If you have not yet read this gripping story, I urge you to do so. And please spread the word as it is yet another tool to let people know about what is being perpetrated on Maine and Mainers. (Mike Bond is Chairman of Saving Maine).

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The fund is financed by a carbon auction system that requires energy producers in nine Northeastern states to pay for the fossil fuels they burn to create electricity. It was established in an attempt to reduce the region’s consumption of fossil fuels and, in turn, reduce the output of climate-warming greenhouse gases.…

SunEdison will be restructuring old loans at a much higher rate and issuing a bunch of stock. Investors' worst fear about the stock is real. SunEdison is cash poor.

If it wasn't, the company wouldn't have to raise money on terms that sounds like this (emphasis ours):

The Second Lien Facilities will be comprised of $500 million of A1 loans, and $225 million of A2 loans, each of which will bear interest at a rate of LIBOR + 10.0% per…

Whether one likes or doesn't like the idea of a national park in the Katahdin region, one thing is clear - many folks living in the areas near the proposed park are vehemently opposed to the idea. Yesterday the Sierra Club weighed in with its endorsement of creating a national monument as a step to a park. As a result, they have likely overnight gotten a very bad name for themselves in the area and lost all credibility with many of the residents. Hopefully this will undermine their efforts…

As the subsidies drop each year from 2016 to 2020, this will be the big push year for wind.  With the new UT bill, we have to close as many mountaintops and wilderness areas as possible to throw a monkeywrench into the plans of the wind industry.  The more fights they have to respond to, the fewer sites will be approved until we can get this whole "Renewable" Energy scam thrown out.…

"The turbine is expected to produce about 1 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year and save the institution more than $100,000 annually in electricity charges. It is expected to save an estimated 572 tons of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere each year, or the equivalent of removing 123 cars from the road". - Bangor Daily News, 11/18/09…

You're probably aware that Maine's wind law created a large area that is "pre-zoned" as suitable for wind development. This means a wind developer can apply for a permit to build a project in that area without having to have the site re-zoned (the way every other industry would have to). The area is known as the expedited wind permitting area (EWPA). It was the wind developers themselves who decided what townships, etc. would become "expedited" (see proof…