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- Governor Mills Signs Supplemental Budget
- $320,000 for case support at the Office of the Public Advocate to be used for the costs of retaining expert witnesses and related costs associated with representing Maine ratepayers in the Emera Maine and Central Maine Power billing, metering, and rate cases.
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Comment by Frank J. Heller, MPA on March 15, 2019 at 12:37pm
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There is a feeding frenzy at the State House as Progressives submit funding request after funding request to build up a regulatory armory to pursue their pet causes. Complex area. I just found this companion bill from the Governor's recommendations and also noted Andrew McClain is a four term rep. who chairs the joint transportation committee. The Governor is stripping out money from the HIGHWAY FUND Rep. McClain is whining about and putting it into a new initiative called the intermodal transportation fund.
You'll find it here:
Governor's Highway Fund Recommended Biennial Budget 2020 - 2021
LR 2407 - CONCEPT DRAFT DOCUMENTS
This would suggest Mills is stripping out surplus revenue from the Highway fund:
"PART H
Sec. H-1. Transfer of funds; Highway Fund; TransCap. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Controller shall transfer $6,345,967 in fiscal year 201920 and $6,404,253 in fiscal year 2020-21 from the Highway Fund unallocated surplus to the TransCap Trust Fund established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 30-A, section 6006-G.
PART H SUMMARY
This Part requires the State Controller to transfer $6,345,967 in fiscal year 201920 and $6,404,253 in fiscal year 2020-21 from the unallocated surplus of the Highway Fund to the TransCap Trust Fund."I could be wrong, but it appears that there is a substantial unallocated surplus in the Highway Fund that this bill would authorize to be transferred to several new(?) initiatives. LD 1034 is the bill sponsored by McClain which would raise the fees; and LD 1002 is part of the Governor's Highway fund modifications and initiatives found at https://legislature.maine.gov/ros/9634
Plenty of money for new transportation initiatives and plenty in the HIGHWAY FUND.
***The Office of the Public Advocate has turned into a monkey wrenching intrusion into set policy making channels and should be either made an independent agency--instead of partisan agency grubbing for lawsuits.
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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