Southern New England states using rural Maine as "their personal wind farm". (Ellsworth American)

I'm not sure why this Ellsworth-American article relates oil demand to wind power in Maine as we use virtually no oil to make electricity save for those occasional high demand times when electricity use peaks and natural gas supply is constricted because Massachusetts will not allow any new natural gas lines which would supply Maine with this desperately needed fuel. Moreover, we don't heat with electricity to any appreciable extent and despite the best efforts of environmental group shills, we don't drive with electricity.

Another renewable energy proposal is in the wind

California’s Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill that would require the state to generate 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources no later than 2045. Historically a leader in this area, California’s wish to spur other environmentally tuned in states to action was cited as one of the factors for the legislation.

The pressure’s on. The Energy Information Agency states that world oil demand for 2018 is 100.1 million barrels per day (BPD). And it goes up, with the 2019 forecast to be 101.65 million BPD consumed by expanding economies and population growth worldwide. This despite the expansion of renewable fuel sources in developed countries.

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Comment by Art Brigades on September 22, 2018 at 9:04am

Alan Baker is the former publisher who sold to Brower.  Baker wrote regular columns and they regularly showed that Baker got it.  

Comment by Donna Amrita Davidge on September 21, 2018 at 8:35pm
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on September 21, 2018 at 7:46pm

Ellsworth -American publisher sold the company to Reade Brower earlier this year. Brower owns most of the newspapers in the state including the Press Herald, Sun Journal and a host of weeklies. In no other state does one person monopolize the newspaper reporting as such.

 

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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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