CALL TO ACTION ...THIS IS WARFARE !!!
YES... we have lost this OCCASION to stop an extension of the PTC. !!!
NO ....WE ARE NOT DONE FIGHTING!!!!
While the Senate and the House caved in to the wind industry, the drama of our country's debt misery IS NOT GOING WAY
AND MONEY IS NEEDED EVERYWHERE IN THIS COUNTRY, LEAST OF ALL FOR A DESTRUCTIVE AND COWARDLY INDUSTRY LIKE THE WIND INDUSTRY !
Friday morning the House will vote on an emergency spending bill to fund Hurricane Sandy victims......where will the money come from? WE CAN GIVE THE HOUSE MEMBERS A MORAL, ETHICAL AND FAIR SUGGESTION:
On Friday morning please call YOUR Representatives, and US House leadership with this message:
' We understand that the bill on Friday for 'emergency spending' to fund Hurricane Sandy relief efforts has to come up with at least $9+ billion in PAY FOR. A good place to start is the wind energy industry subsidies, production tax credits (PTC) included in the Fiscal Cliff bill." WE URGE YOU TO REDIRECT THE WIND PTC MONEY FOR PEOPLE WHO REALLY NEED IT ,GE, SIEMENS,IBERDROLA,FIRST WIND AND VESTA WILL DO FINE WITHOUT IT (end of message).
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We have an window of opportunity to YANK THE MONEY FROM THE WIND PTC before any is spent!
THIS IS WARFARE and Big Wind (and its investors) will know soon enough that we're gunning for the subsidies.”
PLEASE CALL TOMORROW.
Thank you,
Monique
U.S. Representative Mike Michaud
Phone: (202) 225-6306
U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree
Phone: (202) 225-6116
Rep. John Boehner
PHONE: 202-225-6205
Rep. Eric Cantor
PHONE: 202-225-2815
Rep. Kevin McCarthy
PHONE: 202-225-2915
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Comment by Penny Melko on January 18, 2013 at 2:02pm -
THIS IS WAR!!! Eco Economy is our enemy. There is a link in this site to contact the group to let them know to quit turning our forests into wasteland. Most groups don't know how many of us oppose them unless we contact them and make it crystal clear.
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Comment by Penny Melko on January 18, 2013 at 3:31am
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THIS IS WAR!!! War against the Sierra Club supporting wind turbines. Read here: http://content.sierraclub.org/coal/wind/wind
http://content.sierraclub.org/coal/getting-clean-energy-right-start
Our wildlands and ridges aren't renewable or for sales.
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Comment by Penny Melko on January 18, 2013 at 3:05am
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THIS IS WAR!!!
Know your enemy.
East County News. Thank your Miriam. http://eastcountymagazine.org/node/12213
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Comment by alice mckay barnett on January 15, 2013 at 3:42pm -
Hitler was voted in by 98%.....mob madness
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Comment by Penny Melko on January 7, 2013 at 5:47am
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Comment by Mike DiCenso on January 5, 2013 at 7:56pm
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I want to tar and feather a couple politicians for good measure. They really should know better.
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Comment by Kathy Sherman on January 5, 2013 at 11:24am
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Since they only passed part of the emergency spending, we now have a bit more time to reiterate the argument. The slow down AWEA whines about had already occurred between '10 and '11, and the jobs were cut, especially by Vestas, across the globe. Even China no longer wants huge subsidies for wind energy. Unfortunately, projects in-the-pipeline that have already negotiated power purchase agreements, like Cape Wind in Massachusetts, have a contingency clause that gives them higher rates from the utility if they don't get the PTC. And industry insiders write that offshore wind really needs 10 more years of PTC, and that the one-year extension will not be enough to rejuvenate terrestial wind. It is time for New England states, with little wind resource to revise their RPS mandates and keep an eye on the development of the inter-state development of RFP for long-term power purchase agreements for renewables. The maps suggest that Maine has the best offshore wind on the eastern seaboard; even if costs came down 50%, it would still be a huge burden on the New England economy. The PTC can only benefit states like Texas with a huge land mass and more abundant wind resource.
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Comment by alice mckay barnett on January 4, 2013 at 10:29am
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Warrior Barnett made the calls in under 1 minute. We know so much now. We cannot stop.
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Comment by Penny Melko on January 4, 2013 at 3:52am
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Aniel. You're so fiery, you get my blood boiling too.
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Comment by Long Islander on January 3, 2013 at 9:25pm -
Congress still does not know the word NO.
They won't have to pay. But we will.
Throw them all out.
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 (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 http://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?" http://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.” http://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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