Long Islander's Blog – May 2015 Archive (28)

Jeremy Payne, Maine's Own Irwin Mainway

From Newton, Mass.

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Added by Long Islander on May 5, 2015 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Maine is at stake: Turn on your speakers today at 1:00PM - Very Important Wind Bill

This is a very important bill for us. If you cannot attend in person, please tune in at 1:00PM today. (5/5/15).

Tune-in Alert: Public Hearing at EUT Today (May 5, 2016) at 1:00PM  - Very Important Bil

Listen live on the Web 

After clicking the link below, turn up your speakers and use the audio buttons immediately to the right…

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Added by Long Islander on May 5, 2015 at 11:30am — 3 Comments

All Hands on Deck: Mega Transmission Being Shoved Down Our Throats Based on a Big Lie

May 5, 2015 - A new article this morning from the Bangor Daily News following up on Governor LePage's nomination yesterday of Bruce Williamson to the Maine PUC begins with the words:

"One of the biggest and broadest challenges ahead in the electricity world is how to pay for the grid upgrades expected to cost about $1.5 trillion nationally between 2010 and 2030, an estimate developed by consultants at The Brattle Group".…

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Added by Long Islander on May 5, 2015 at 6:30am — 10 Comments

BDN - First Wind (SunEdison) halts talks with Maine regulators on wind power deals

Renewable energy developer SunEdison has decided not to seek a long-term contract with Maine utilities for its Weaver Wind project, following the Maine Public Utilities Commission’s reconsideration of the terms of a 25-year power purchasing agreement.…

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Added by Long Islander on May 4, 2015 at 4:15pm — 3 Comments

The Wind Power Industry Could Lose The Subsidy Tailwind At It's Back

“That’s why I have introduced legislation to eliminate the production tax credit.” Marchant noted, “Since its creation in 1992, the PTC has ballooned from a temporary boost for energy innovation into a massive special interest handout for the now multibillion-dollar wind industry. Today the wind industry regularly produces more energy than the market demands while hardworking taxpayers shell out billions of dollars each year in PTC support.…

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Added by Long Islander on May 3, 2015 at 11:00am — No Comments

A $38 million dollar scam - and Mainers haven't seen nothing yet

And if a $38 million scam bothers you, then you should be many, many times more upset about the $1.4 billion scam called the Maine Power Reliability Project (MPRP) or CMP Upgrade, a gift to the wind industry funded by duped ratepayers which most of the powers that be deny is such a gift. In fact just this week, our so called Public Advocate in essence stated that transmission build doesn't have anything to do with wind.

The game they have played is that they will say it is not…

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Added by Long Islander on May 1, 2015 at 5:00pm — 3 Comments

Wind PTC - The Out-of-Control IRS, Rewriting Laws

Nowhere is this truer than in the IRS’s repeated expansion of the controversial wind-production tax credit, which provides federal subsidies to wind-energy producers. Over the last two and a half years, the agency has shown how a slow-but-steady watering down of federal law can completely reshape its original scope and intent — alarmingly, without any congressional action.…

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Added by Long Islander on May 1, 2015 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

BDN - Rockland council vote reverses decision, grants option on $200 million natural gas plant

ROCKLAND, Maine — The City Council voted Friday morning to grant an option to a Boston-based energy company that wants to build a $200 million natural gas power plant on land where City Hall is now located.

The decision came two days after the council failed to grant the option to Rockland Energy Center. Councilors voted 2-1 Wednesday night in favor of the option, but three affirmative votes were needed for approval.…

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Added by Long Islander on May 1, 2015 at 5:00pm — 3 Comments

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CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

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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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