Paula D Kelso's Blog (20)

The DEP will have a public meeting from 6 to 8 pm in the Clifton meeting room. The Silver Maple application can be accessed on the DEP website. Comments can be sent to Jessica Damon or be made at the meeting. This is a 20 mw facility as compared to the 9 mw facility already on Pisgah Mountain. The turbines will be 4.0 mw as compared to the 1.9 existing turbines. The height of the towers will be much higher and the cumulative impact on the natural resources of…

HELP WANTED: EXPERIENCED INDUSTRIAL WIND FIGHTERS

Clifton is again in the sights of big money wind developer SWEB of New Brunswick and Austria. The MDEP is almost ready to have a public meeting on the project. You can access the application on the DEP website. Look for Silver Maple Wind Energy Facility Application. The meeting may be about Feb. 4 at Comins Hall in Eddington. That may not be how it works out…

OMG, the wind turbines wear out, OH, NO.

https://resource-recycling.com/plastics/2019/03/27/company-expands-wind-turbine-recycling-operation/

Wind turbine blades for recycling at GFS.

Wind turbines generate clean and renewable power, but when their blades reach end-of-life, the options – burning or landfilling – aren’t so…

Comments anyone?

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-spot-530-000-potential-pumped-hydro-sites-to-meet-all-our-renewable-energy-needs

We just got some massive news in the ongoing drive to switch to renewable energy: scientists have identified 530,000 sites worldwide suitable for…

The current Pisgah Mountain LLC wind energy facility here in Clifton is not enough for the foreign SWEB corporation. Starting in 2016, SWEB has been getting its ducks in a row for another attack on our community. In 2016, it bought out about half of Pisgah's land area, over 100 acres, to add to its 49% ownership of the Pisgah facility and SWEB took out a 5 year option to buy an adjacent large tree growth parcel whose owner had refused to support…

This one's a winner …. for the booby prize.

https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/433423-the-100-percent-renewables-moonshot-were-closer-than

By Grant Smith, Opinion Contributor — 03/10/19 06:40 PM EDT 329

The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill

The truth…

An Illinois bill leans into the most contentious part of the Green New Deal

Illinois is weighing a 100 percent renewable energy bill that includes jobs, equity, and social justice.…

Jumping off from Gov. Mills reference to her 20 buddy governors on their hunt for a green new deal:

Climate change is ‘hammering’ our state, Janet Mills says

A new report released by Environment America outlines ways that U.S. governors can immediately address climate change and protect the environment. Here is Gov. Janet Mills' response.

Climate change is a priority issue. Our Office of Policy Innovation and the Future is preparing a climate agenda which I will…

https://naturalgasnow.org/green-new-deal-is-neither-new-nor-a-deal-its-a-fraud/

this explains a lot.

Basically this article is supportive of nuclear energy, but it has some other good points and facts. And gives the real data for contradicting the Denmark and Germany wind energy fable of happily ever after.

We now know that, in the real world, electricity grid managers cope with the unreliability of solar by firing up petroleum and natural gas generators.

As such — while there might be good reasons to continue to subsidize the production of solar…

http://bangordailynews.com/2018/03/29/energy/950m-power-grid-project-could-tunnel-under-kennebec-river-gorge/

The hellish deals all of these energy spawn.

http://www.newsweek.com/harvey-irma-hurricane-season-climate-change-659844

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2017/05/31/452704.htm

When I was 7 or 8 years old, early '50's, there was a hurricane that hit downeast Maine. It destroyed the fish hatchery on Alamosook…

For those who found Mike Bond's Killing Maine spot on, if you haven't read it, his earlier novel Saving Paradise about the wind industry's attack on the glorious state of Hawaii, is available on Kindle for 99 cents at the present time.

A couple of browsing results for Hawaii and wind turbines:…

Who reads this ****? I didn't. But people do and believe it word for word. Actually, who writes this ****?

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html

Wind farms -- which now account for about a fifth of the state’s power mix -- are forecast to generate significantly less electricity this week as the heat builds and keeps turbines from spinning. Wind generation may peak at about 5,900 megawatts on Thursday and 6,900 megawatts Friday, less than two-thirds of what they totaled a week earlier, according to grid manager Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or…

Don't know about anyone else, but last week's few days of bitter cold weather didn't make me any more or less believing in 'global warming'.

We need more than weather statistics and computer models to justify all the consequential, societal, environmental and economic upheaval that has come as part of the energy policies foisted on us by the climate change enforcers.  …

© (Evan Vucci/AP) As the COP22 climate change conference is underway in Marrakech, Morocco, a Chinese foreign ministry official refuted past claims by President-elect Donald Trump that climate change is a Chinese hoax.…

PISGAH'S LATEST MORPH AS OF OCTOBER 6, 2016

This is the latest MPUC submission of ownership structure from Pisgah Mountain, LLC to justify their request to maintain their community based standing and their $93/MWH power purchase agreement with Bangor Hydro, now Emera:

Pisgah Mountain, LLC…

Thank you those who have made comments to the PUC relating to Pisgah Mtn LLC being morphed into Austrian wind company WEB and how that looks to be contrary to the intent of the Community-Based Renewable Energy Program. Today Pisgah filed a new motion with the PUC asking for all information to be kept confidential. In other words, asking the PUC to not expose their attempt to conceal the LLC's lack of financing.

If you can, please go to the Maine PUC website and go to case file…