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Posted October 16

Updated October 18

Sophie Burchell

Staff Writer

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Following public outcry, the Falmouth Town Council passed a resolution opposing a proposed transmission line upgrade project that would run through the town and surrounding communities.

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The business case for floating turbines, as opposed to their fixed-bottom counterparts, boils down to two points: they can do their thing making power farther from shore, where the high winds are and the people generally aren’t. In some places like California, the coastal shelf slopes so steeply that floating wind has been seen as the only option. But the…

By Paris Apodaca, DCNF Reporter, Daily Caller News Foundation

President Donald Trump’s administration is putting up to $42 million in federal funding behind a natural gas pipeline that New York helped derail years ago, invoking national defense powers to revive the project as the White House pushes to lower energy costs across the Northeast.

The Department…

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A California-based energy company will develop and build a utility-scale wind farm across thousands of acres of commercial timberland in Southern Aroostook’s unorganized territory.



Coming on the heels of the failed King Pine wind project, County Line wind farm, owned by Clearway Energy Group LLC, intends to generate 800 megawatts for the planned Northern Maine Renewable Energy Development Program.



Despite the potential for…

"The transmission upgrades will also allow for more growth in the region and enable more climate-friendly electrification of existing infrastructure, said the CMP spokesperson."

As state regulators review the proposed project, residents question whether it’s needed.

Posted October 9

Updated October 12

Sophie Burchell

Staff…

This is simply a duplicate of a post published on July 23, 2018, over eight years ago. The list is almost certainly not current. But I believe the basic facts are the same: Most importantly, WIND ORDINANCES WORK. But they must be done right and clearly, model ordinances that likely reflect any and all possible changes since 2018 likely exist. I would encourage anyone who is concerned to contact a few of the towns listed below to become armed. Please post any updated info or corrections in…

by Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli

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"Promoting information symmetry in rate cases, so intervenors don’t have to fight protracted discovery battles just to get the financial data needed to challenge a utility’s rate hike"

Geez, just like the wind projects you relentlessly support NRCM. They're planned for years and the public only hears of the project at virtually only the last minute.

Got hypocrisy NRCM and friends?…

How about fixing the roads instead?

Updated: 4:43 PM EDT Oct 14, 2026



By Niall Patrick

The Maine Department of Marine Resources announced on Tuesday that it plans to conduct another round of research in the Gulf of Maine to study marine life near a proposed offshore wind development.

The winter bottom trawl survey is scheduled to begin the week of January 11, 2027, and continue…

If this 1,200 MW transmission line goes through, it will not only make possible the 800 MW Clearway project in Aroostook, but also 400 MW of smaller NEW wind projects along the way down. The Haynesville to Pittsfield line would break up the long existing electricity bottleneck and old projects along the way, previously stopped by the bottleneck, will suddenly become…

The lack of adequate natural gas pipeline capacity, totally politically caused, is costing Mainers a lot of money and jeopardizing energy security.

The tiny red line on the map below traces the distance from the Marcellus deposits to Maine.

The line drawn on the map is actually larger than the actual distance, simply so that it can be readily seen on the map below. That we have shortages here in Maine, that close to one of the world's largest natural gas deposits is…

By Delger Erdenesanaa

Published on: October 2, 2026

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Pingree wants Maine to procure more clean energy through projects such as the Northern Maine Renewable Energy Program, which aims to develop utility-scale renewable energy projects and transmission infrastructure in Aroostook County.

Bennett and Pingree hold many of the same positions on energy. “We need to go to a clean energy future,” Bennett said in an…

By Miriam Wasser

October 01, 2026

Amid ongoing public outcry over sky high energy bills, Gov. Maura Healey has asked the Trump administration to expedite its review of a natural gas pipeline expansion project in New England.

In…

By Alex Brown -

An eight-state coalition filed lawsuits Tuesday challenging the Trump administration’s payments to private companies to cancel offshore wind leases,…

A huge wind farm is coming to northern Maine. How will it impact bills?

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August 21, 2026

Regulators revived a massive energy bet by handing the reworked Aroostook County wind transmission project to Central Maine Power Co.’s parent company, and it is already drawing fire from a corner of the Republican Party that helped write the law behind it.

The Maine Public Utilities Commission announced Tuesday that Avangrid will build a 1,200-megawatt transmission line connecting northern Maine to the regional grid, while another developer will build an…

By Kaitlyn Budion -

August 25, 2026 4:57 pm

The Maine Public Utilities Commission will finally move forward with plans for a new transmission line to northern Maine and an 800 megawatt wind project. 

At a regular meeting Tuesday, commissioners selected Avangrid, the parent company of Central Maine Power, to build the transmission line and Clearway Energy Group to build the onshore wind…