Long Islander's Blog – January 2015 Archive (31)

EDP Renewables, Emera Maine and Central Maine Power advance Northern Maine wind

Companies from three foreign countries picking pockets of ratepayers - Portugal, Spain (also UAE and Qatar) and Canada. And First Wind started in Italy. Maine as third world country.

EDP Renewables (EDPR), Central Maine Power (CMP) and Emera Maine, a subsidiary of Emera Inc. (TSX:EMA), announced today they have reached agreements that will enable clean energy from…

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Added by Long Islander on January 9, 2015 at 4:00pm — 8 Comments

Retiring Colgan shills for wind to the very end

Rural communities are not “doomed to collapse and failure,” he said, but they will not be an engine of economic growth in the foreseeable future, with the exception of areas where…
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Added by Long Islander on January 9, 2015 at 11:24am — No Comments

BDN - Governor LePage nominates his top legal adviser to PUC, names Vannoy chairman

Gov. Paul LePage has nominated his chief legal counsel, Carlisle Tuggey McLean, to serve on the three-member Maine Public Utilities Commission......The nomination comes just one day after LePage’s inauguration, when he reiterated that reducing energy costs in the state is a high priority. Efforts to do so could include changes to the state’s renewable energy goals, expanding natural gas infrastructure and…

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Added by Long Islander on January 8, 2015 at 9:45pm — No Comments

Maine Wind Developers Victimized

Jeremy Payne plays victim of coming bills "attacking" the wind developers and a day later we learn how the wind crowd is so skillfully using their marionette Justin Alfond as documented by the Maine Center for Public…

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Added by Long Islander on January 8, 2015 at 10:30am — 5 Comments

BDN - CMP, Emera announce joint transmission project for wind farm

Reliability of the power grid? How about it was perfectly reliable until your spurting scamming taxpayer fleecing ratepayer harming wind factories came along? Hopefully the two new PUC commissioners we'll soon be seeing will start investigating all of this.

Gerry Chasse, president and CEO of Emera Maine, said the project and others it is assessing with CMP would help increase the reliability of the region’s power grid.…

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Added by Long Islander on January 7, 2015 at 2:00pm — No Comments

PPH: Utilities terminate contract for $2.5 billion Cape Wind project

Gov. Deval Patrick, a strong supporter of the project, told reporters Wednesday he didn’t know if the project could survive.

http://www.pressherald.com/2015/01/07/utilities-terminate-contract-for-2-5-billion-cape-wind-project/

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Added by Long Islander on January 7, 2015 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

EOLIAN - Watch: Public Meeting on Orland Wind Project

Watch: Public Meeting on Orland Wind Project

The CEO of Eolian talks about risks. His company has been stopped in its tracks on every wind factory he has attempted. Perhaps being in business is a risk Jack. 

http://www.foxbangor.com/news/local-news/7406-watch-public-meeting-on-orland-wind-project.html

Added by Long Islander on January 7, 2015 at 6:30am — 2 Comments

Eolian - Orland holding vote on proposed wind moratorium

Friends of Dodge Hill held two petition drives in support of the moratorium.

Ahead of the vote, a public hearing at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 6, at the Orland Community Center will give residents a chance to or learn more about the issue or comment on the proposed temporary ban.…

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Added by Long Islander on January 4, 2015 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree: Tax Breaks Critical for Wind Energy

That’s critical tax credits for things like wind energy developers and people in our state who just need to know what their investments in the future are going to look like," Pingree says, "and this uncertainty is just bad for the business."

Pingree says tax policy should be established for at least several years to allow businesses and individuals to plan. …

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Added by Long Islander on January 3, 2015 at 12:00pm — 9 Comments

BDN - Maine Supreme Judicial Court rules appeal to stop permitted Clifton wind farm filed too late

The justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled that local perennial farmers Peter and Julie Beckford filed their lawsuit against Bangor developer Paul Fuller and his local partners five days too late.…

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Added by Long Islander on January 3, 2015 at 1:34am — 11 Comments

First Wind scored over $700 million of stimulus funds...

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Exposing the largest, most expensive and deceptive case of crony capitalism in American history...

Two Big White House 'Green' Cronies Unite: First Wind scored over $700 million of stimulus funds, now being acquired by SunEdison…

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Added by Long Islander on January 1, 2015 at 11:00pm — 2 Comments

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Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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