Maine should leave Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (PPH)

Please note that the former Vice-Chair of RGGI and now Treasurer of RGGI, David Littell, is one of three commissioners on the Maine PUC which has a demonstrated track record of overruling its staff recommendations in favor of the wind industry, e.g., approving the First Wind-Emera merger and approving the Maine Power Reliability Project at a ratepayer financed price tag of $1.4 BILLION (built solely as a favor to the wind industry).

In his role as Maine PUC Commissioner, Littell is charged with finding fair and reasonable electricity prices. In his role at RGGI, he is charged with shoving high cost wind power down ratepayers' throats. This is a blatant conflict.

3/28/14

M.D. Harmon: Maine should leave Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative compact

A withdrawal would save the state’s consumers at least $106 million from 2015 to 2020, a study says.

Raising taxes behind a smokescreen of environmental virtue

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Ratepayers are the ones on the hook, and Mainers have paid $48 million into the program since 2008.

What happens to the money? State governments “invest” it in projects favored by politicians and bureaucrats, including high-cost but low-return wind and solar projects...

http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/M_D__Harmon__Maine_should_leave_...

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Comment by Long Islander on March 28, 2014 at 9:59am

Email addresses for the Maine PUC are here:

http://www.naruc.org/commissions/default.cfm?s=33

 

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

******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********

(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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