There is some amount of hope on the Horizon.

Rick Perry, former Governor of Texas and now Secretary of Energy held a Capital Hill meeting on Thursday and made this comment: 

"Where we may or may not agree is just how much of this is man's fault and our decisions that we're going to make here," Perry said. "I don't believe climate change is 100 percent man's fault."

"Americans shouldn't be making decisions based on climate assumptions that could put the country at a disadvantage," he added.  

He also said that since wind and solar continue to tell everyone they are now BASELOAD power sources, they can NOT have it both ways. They can NOT consider themselves in line to receive subsidies to build their business. Fairness has to be considered. Perry feels subsidies should go to clean coal and nuclear, energy sources that CAN provide BASELOAD power. This kind of change at the DOE and the Idea they want to be separated from the EPA (which in MY HUMBLE OPINION should be eliminated altogether) is certainly a change from the crap we had to listen to for the last eight years.

 https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060063545

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Comment by Paula D Kelso on October 17, 2017 at 9:37pm
Solely in the interest of full disclosure, my daighter is an electrical engineer and my cousin's daughter is a chemical engineer. Both smart and successful women. But can't get either of them to accept the negatives about eimd energy. Both travel to Europe and Asia to mret with clients. So proud of them and there's no place for them to work in Maine.
Comment by Eskutassis on October 17, 2017 at 6:06pm

Paula, E&E News has always been a scientifically based news agency that does not take a religious belief in climate change. They examine it scientifically and economically as they are generally scientists involved in business. Electrical Engineers are high on the scale of science graduates along with Chemical Engineers. 

Comment by Paula D Kelso on October 17, 2017 at 3:42pm

Wouldn't it be great if all news articles were as informational and focused on the whole story as this one? And without an ax to grind. 

 

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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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