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ISO-NE observed Approx. 80M gallons of fuel-oil was burned last winter …

Knowing your enemy is important and this enemy is killing our world.

For the wind industry fake research has enormous offsetting mitigation consequences. It saves the wind industry billions every year. It also keeps conservation groups happy because they get paid a bundle to keep their mouths shut.

So is this recent bald eagle survey from Ohio true? After all it was compiled by "Citizen Scientists". Here is my expert honest opinion..... What a pile of S***. It's just a…

use this URL to access the pull down menues....well organized.   

http://www.hydroquebec.com/sustainable-development/energy-environment/hydropower.html

Two things stand out:

   First, they have a tremendous amount of all forms of renewable energy, the bulk in hydro generated , 177,091 GigaWattHours generated and 31,610 GigaWattHours purchased.

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The zero-credibility media owe Mr. LaBrecque an apology and the people of Maine truthful coverage of an industry they've protected and promoted at the expense of everyone else.

An informal energy adviser to Republican Gov. Paul LePage has repeated a tall tale about the wind turbine at the University of Maine at Presque Isle.

Refrigeration technician James…

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Steve Forrest, the Rockies and Plains program coordinator for Defenders of Wildlife said………….“The burrowing owls left because the prairie dogs left,” Forrest said. That is not surprising since the owls prey on the prairie dogs, he said. The coyotes likely left because…

Here is a photo taken in Kingsbury. This is the first pad to be poured with cement.

The last I have really heard about Saving Maine was that they were going all out in their effort to publicly blacken the reputation of Friends of Maine's Mountains. Since then has Saving Maine been doing anything positive? Any news on their effort to collect signatures and repeal the wind act? I went to their web site and it looks just as dormant as when I visited many months ago. I can't find any recent mentions of them in the press. Does anybody know if they're doing any tangible work in…

Anybody see this Tweet from FMM just a few minutes ago? "Well-deserved kick in the teeth today (http://bit.ly/1ko37sH) for First Wind. BEP upholds DEP denial at…

At the Hywind Maine meeting at Rockland library on Tuesday,  I was the only visible critic of deepwater floating ocean windpower among the attendees.  I  interviewed 3 Statoil officials, one consultant, a representative of the DeepCwind Consortium and a Seagrant staffer. The recordings  have background crowd sounds

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  The Mark Richey Woodworking Co in Newburyport, MA put up a 600 KW turbine at its plant in March  of 2009, accompanied by much publicity, etc.   It is the same size (600 KW) and manufacturer as UMPI's turbine, which went up two months later in the same year.  There is a website that reports steadily on the Mark Richey Co. turbine's output;  UMPI's website reports sporatically, at best.

Google:  Mark Richey Woodworking.

   As far as I know the Mark Richey's Co's turbine has not…

The UMPI turbine site has just posted a new power production figure::

Since mid-November of 2011, the turbine produced 302,150 kWh for UMPI.  

That's 164 days, an average of 1,842 kWh per day.

302,150 kWh divided by 164 gives an average of 1,842 kwh per day produced since it was fixed.  

It is a 600 kw turbine; 600 kw X 24 hours is 14,400 kWh per day "installed capacity".  

1,842 kWh (recorded average daily power production) divided by 14,400 kWh (installed…

   With  Congress' non-renewal of the PTC yesterday,  Maine's industrial wind turbines will be even less likely to manage to survive financially. When the turbines cease to generate and sell power, they are required by their Permits to be decomissioned.  Then we will learn the validity of the fully pre-funded financing arrangements that have been made for removal of the monstrosities and restoration of the site to its original condiiton.  The permitting authorities have accepted highly…

In another effort to fund industrial wind, Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY21] introduced

• H.R. 2782: Wind Energy Research and Development Act of 2011 (Aug 1, 2011)
• Read the full text of the bill here.
• Referred to House…

After a couple of attempts, the FERC website downloaded power production figures for October, November, and December of 2011 for Lincoln Lakes (Rollins), which FERC calls "Evergreen Wind Power III, LLC."  I dont know why it didn't work the first time,  I will post this information in a day or so.

H. Roper  Houlton/Danforth

The FERC website seems to have been changed. I see no "Download" place, and  I  can't get the big list of producers to come up. Help!?

 Harrisdson Roper  Houlton/Dnforth

harryroper@myfairpoint.net

On January 3, 2011,  the US Dept of Energy published a notice on a plan to add twenty new categorical exclusions to review of development projects as required under the National Environmental Policy Act. Windpower is, alas, part of that plan.  Deadline to add your input is February 17,…

I spent yesterday afternoon in the State House researching out hydropower. With the help of a legislative reference librarian I got 18 pp. of energy related bills and two critical documents inventorying small hydropower sites in Maine.

In 1982, the State planning office prepared the MAINE COMPREHENSIVE HYDRO PLAN; it was updated in 1992; but 'apparently' not in 2002.  The report identified a total of 700.734 MW of capacity---unlike…