March 18, 2024
by Billy Kobin
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.................2009: “This is among my highest priorities,” U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, said at the time. “It is a win-win for the state of Maine in terms of producing new jobs for the state and having the state lead the way in reducing our dependence on foreign oil.”.............................
For all the bipartisan praise more than a decade ago, offshore wind has become an…
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Maine Public | By Nicole Ogrysko
Published March 15, 2024 at 11:04 AM EDT
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has finalized an area in the Gulf of Maine where a commercial offshore wind farm could be developed.
The area covers 2 million acres offshore from Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, ranging anywhere from 23 to 92 miles off the coast, BOEM said Friday.
The final area represents an 80% reduction from the section that…
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March 14, 2024
Though windmills and solar panels get the headlines, the big energy topic in Washington is electric transmission. Whether it is Congress’s newfound interest in permitting reform, the U.S. Department of Energy’s new Grid Deployment Office, or the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) upcoming final rule on transmission planning and cost allocation, how to build and pay for long-range transmission to connect generators to customers is considered the final…
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by Michael Shepherd
March 15, 2024
AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Janet Mills wants to roll back protections for the sand dunes that partially make up the state’s preferred site for a landmark offshore wind terminal.
The Democratic governor’s bill, which was submitted this week by Rep. Gerry Runte, D-York, a member of the Legislature’s energy committee, is aimed at clearing the way for the terminal. The Mills administration picked Sears Island in Searsport over nearby Mack Point as…
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Democratic leaders and a group of Republicans seek to shift oversight of Maine's clean car standards from a citizen board to state lawmakers.
March 12, 2024
Stephen Singer
Press Herald
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The Legislature’s two top Democrats and a group of minority Republicans want to take control of Maine’s electric vehicle rules.
A bill proposed Tuesday would give lawmakers, not a citizen board, the final say on clean car standards meant to curtail vehicle…
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By Lora Whelan, Quoddy Tides
March 9, 2024
“We will continue to develop future projects in Maine under the new structure and will work to make them financially viable at the 1 MW limit.”
A 2023 change in Maine law means that two of four Nexamp solar farm projects in Washington County will lose over half of their generating capacity when online.
Nexamp Communications Manager Keith Hevenor explained the…
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By Seamus Othot
March 11, 2024
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“National Grid thanks the dozens of route communities and regional partners who engaged with us and supported this project,” said the electrical utility company. “We will continue to pursue paths to building much-needed transmission capacity for the region and for our customers and communities.”
The transmission line, the so-called Twin State Clean Energy Link, was planned to be a 211-mile-long line through Vermont…
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March 8, 2024
Stephen Singer
Press Herald
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Spanish energy giant Iberdrola, which owns Central Maine Power Co.’s parent company, Avangrid Inc., is making a nearly $2.5 billion play for full control of its U.S. subsidiary and its extensive gas and electricity utilities in the Northeast.
Avangrid said Thursday it received a nonbinding proposal, but not an offer,…
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March 8, 2024
By Rep. Reagan Paul
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Gov. Janet Mills announced Feb. 20 that Sears Island is the location where her administration will launch its long-awaited offshore wind energy project. Climate extremists were ecstatic with the news. Renewable energy lobbyists were bouncing off the State House walls. But sadly there is a clear loser here — it’s Maine’s environment.…
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March 6, 2024
The only way to protect your city or town from the destruction that always follows windmills and solar panels is to prevent their construction in the first place. Besides the eyesores, sound fatigue, pollution, dead birds, etc., your electricity rates will…
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VOTE OUT EVERY SINGLE LAST SOB WHO SUPPORTS EMINENT DOMAIN FOR THESE TOTAL SCAM TRANSMISSION LINES AND EVERY SOB WHO SUPPORTS ANY NEW TRANSMISSION FOR BS WIND POWER
March 6, 2024
Stephen Singer
Press Herald
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Maine legislators are looking for middle ground between developers of electricity transmission lines needed to deliver clean energy and property owners demanding more of a…
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The Tampa Bay Times also reports that the bill is “rolling back some regulations on natural gas pipelines by making it so any pipeline shorter than 100 miles wouldn’t have to go through a certification process. Currently, anything longer than 15 miles triggers that oversight.”
https://electrek.co/2024/03/05/florida-wind-turbine-ban/
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on February 28, 2024
by Steve Thurston
When the Public Utility Commission tells the legislature that a bill that does nothing to solve global warming will cost Vermonters $1 billion, and legislators vote for it anyway, it’s time for the voters to thank them for their service and show them the door on election day.
H.289, an Act Related to the Renewable Energy Standard, sponsored by the chair and co-chair of the House Energy and Environment…
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Maine's Outdoor Recreation Economy Roadmap: Igniting Growth and Shaping the Future in 2024
Media Contact: Isa Morton isa@blaze-partners.com…
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By Kate Cough
February 25, 2024
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..............The Merchant Marine Act of 1920, better known as the Jones Act, requires goods shipped between U.S. ports to be transported on vessels that have been built in American shipyards, are registered in the U.S. and are crewed and owned by U.S. citizens.
Customs and Border Protection, which enforces the law, has said it applies to any device installed on the seafloor up to 200 nautical miles…
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February 25, 2024
HERB WILSON
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..............We can characterize the abundance of golden eagles in Maine as rare year-round. Perhaps the best time of year see one is in March in the western mountains, when the Labrador and Newfoundland breeders are migrating back to their nesting grounds.
Fall migrants are more common in the western mountains as well, beginning in late September, peaking in late October to November, trailing off in…
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By Seamus Othot
February 21, 2024
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Maine’s Committee on Energy Utilities and Technology (EUT) held a public hearing on Tuesday on a bill which could strike another blow against the controversial Aroostook Renewable Energy Gateway.
[RELATED: The Heavily Criticized “Aroostook Renewable Gateway” Suffers Another Setback…]
“The opposition of this transmission line was not specific to any political party. It is a bipartisan issue,…
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By Marleigha Clipston
Published: Feb. 21, 2024 at 8:33 PM EST
BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - The Alliance for Sears Island and their allies gathered in Belfast today to stand against the decision to build an offshore wind port at Sears Island
Governor Mills announced the location Tuesday.
The Alliance believes the state should have offshore wind power, but the port should be at a different location
They say Mack Point would be a better site and just as many…
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Maine Public | By Susan Sharon
Published February 20, 2024 at 1:26 PM EST
Members of a state working group tasked with finding a suitable port to serve the offshore wind industry toured Sears Island in Nov. 2022. Later, they toured the port of Mack Point, visible in…
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