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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Utility opposes new rules for heat pumps popular in Maine
"Stoddard said a heat pump competes with a boiler that is a bigger and more powerful system...... What the hell is wrong with this guy. " bigger and more powerful" is an American economic principle that has made us the most powerful…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Utility opposes new rules for heat pumps popular in Maine
"As always, this mess was a concoction of the majority democrat legislature: "The Legislature has set forth the goal of at least 115,000 households in the State wholly heated by heat pumps and an additional 130,000 households in the State…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post 3 New York wind farms scrapped
"German, UK folks, and all other CO2-reduction/phobia fanatics have wasted many $trillions on hare-brained wind/solar/battery/EV/Heat Pump, etc., schemes They have impoverished tens of millions of people in the process, because they are spreading THE…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post 3 New York wind farms scrapped
"Those bureaucrat/liberal/leftist net-zero folks, who are so concerned, likely do not have any idea how much those 850-ft-tall monsters will add to their electric bills for DECADES, making New York State totally uncompetitive on domestic and world…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Utility ratepayers kick in about $10,500 per EV
"German, UK folks, and all other CO2-reduction/phobia fanatics have wasted many $trillions on hare-brained wind/solar/battery/EV/Heat Pump, etc., schemes They have impoverished tens of millions of people in the process, because they are spreading THE…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine joins regional efforts to secure $1 billion for clean energy projects
"German, UK folks, and all other CO2-reduction/phobia fanatics have wasted many $trillions on hare-brained wind/solar/battery/EV/Heat Pump, etc., schemes They have impoverished tens of millions of people in the process, because they are spreading THE…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post 3 New York wind farms scrapped
"Maine's offshore wind will deliver its output to Massachusetts. Maine DOT lays out plans for offshore wind industry “port-hub” in Searsport By Annie Ropeik Maine PUBLISHED 6:42 AM ET Nov. 24, 2021 "The state…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post 3 New York wind farms scrapped
"It looks like the end of overly expensive offshore wind is near. Why is the short-sighted, out-of-touch Maine legislature voting for $500 million for the destruction of pristine Sears Island? Do these proxies have any common sense regarding…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine joins regional efforts to secure $1 billion for clean energy projects
"The Democrats.receive billions of dollars of donations to candidates that want to deconstruct the U S A economy by destroying the energy sector.  The penalty for the crimes they have committed against the people will come from these donors and…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine House backs environmental exemption to allow wind terminal on Sears Island
"This is the coercive will of the elite special/monied interests imposing itself on the people’s interest, and the people’s proxies, aka elected reps, decided to support the special/monied interests. It is high time all these fraudulent…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine House backs environmental exemption to allow wind terminal on Sears Island
"Augusta, we have a problem.  There are 8 billion people on Earth.  Obviously, North America and Europe are the only areas of Earth serious about alleged climate crisis. North America and Europe combined have a population of 1.1…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Utility ratepayers kick in about $10,500 per EV
"All these subsidies are used to keep these corpses on life support At some point, wise people have to pull the plug and let these corpses die."
Saturday
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine House backs environmental exemption to allow wind terminal on Sears Island
"The hard-working Main people will be so screwed."
Saturday
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine House backs environmental exemption to allow wind terminal on Sears Island
"Just keep flushing hard earned taxpayer money down the green and other toilets. Trillion-Dollar Deficits Explain Why Inflation Keeps Hitting American Families…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post The Maine Labor Climate Council
"Very short sighted lobbying coalition pandering for the other short sighted climate fear mongering bunch that control the stolen money from the ratepayers and taxpayers of Maine."
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post The Maine Labor Climate Council
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Utility opposes new rules for heat pumps popular in Maine

Versant Power opposes a shift to whole-house electric heat pumps from those used in one or 2 rooms, saying affluent homeowners and developers will benefit.

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

April 24, 2024

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Versant Power is pushing back against a new approach to broaden the use of heat pumps, which already are a key part of Maine’s toolbox to cut greenhouse gas…

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Posted on April 24, 2024 at 8:26am — 2 Comments

3 New York wind farms scrapped

by Bruce Mohl, April 20, 2024, commonwealthbeacon.org

New York pulled the plug Friday on three offshore wind projects that encountered pricing problems after GE canceled the development of a larger turbine that the developers had been counting on.

The decision is a setback for the US offshore wind industry and may have some cost…

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Posted on April 21, 2024 at 9:44am — 4 Comments

Maine joins regional efforts to secure $1 billion for clean energy projects

I would add to this article:

- Pros of wind power (basically none); Cons of wind power (many)

- The virtually complete lack of grid scaled battery systems and how long they would sustain a suicidal electricity system built on intermittent wind and solar (now and in the future)

- The stresses these same fools are planning for us on top of wind and solar "reliance", namely "electrification" and EV's

- The aside that most people do not want EV's beyond the small…

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Posted on April 20, 2024 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

Utility ratepayers kick in about $10,500 per EV

Could EVs Compete In A True Free Market?



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Posted on April 19, 2024 at 9:06pm — 2 Comments

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At 9:10pm on June 17, 2015, Eskutassis said…

The arguments we have with those on the other side are really amazing.  I saw yours on the PPH article.  I posted one too.

At 11:13am on July 17, 2013, Peter Beckford said…

Yo Long Islander, can you do anything to give my blog post the widest audience, like emailing it on to everyone or something? Thanks a lot, Peter Beckford

We appreciate the steady diet of posts from you

At 8:03pm on July 14, 2012, Wind Scam said…
Wind Scam Artists strategies to destroy "America the Beautiful".
 
This is long, but it is worth scanning all of it. Be sure to download and search for your Reps. and Senators too. Don't forget to share with all.
This shows the backroom dealings of these wind scam artists and our politicians ramming this "Rip Off" unreliable and unproductive wind energy crap down our thro@@t.
 
Don't miss there campaign to save wind jobs that cost the American Taxpayer in excess of $8,000,000 each also, why because it come our of our wallets and purses.
Be sure to check out all their propaganda goals to destroy the Beautiful United States and make each of us pay for this destruction from "Fake Renewable Energy".
At 7:31am on February 29, 2012, Allen Barrette said…

Ok lets update Americas status first there are millions of abandoned homes from foreclosure, there is less electricity for lights,furnaces,etc. being used today  so we all can relax with the scare of congesting our grids. There is plenty of current being generated at the moment. So what steps do we take to rid our lands of the dinosaur turbines that this foreign company called first wind first and they are not from New England originally folks. The office in Boston is just a front to be what they thought was going to be action. Obama our fearless leader wants to keep this going,The wasteful spending, allowing the companies to change names as fast as the sun sets,how they do business,How they are awarded these funds I'll never understand because there is in my opinion no practical method in deciding who gets funding for these energy projects. I am disgusted at this administration, If you were working in my company I"d fire you for insubordination, you know your not suppose to use public money for your personal interests. It has to be personal because it surely is not a public interest  Shame on you ----- Got Vision           

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At 8:08pm on March 27, 2010, Mary Elen Marucci said…
HI, Ita a geodatabase I am building with two others as a project in intro GIS. Has to do with state and local ordinance rules affecting possible sites in a particular town. I enjoyed your picture gallery. Mary Ellen
At 10:52pm on March 14, 2010, Joanne Moore said…
Thanks for the link to the report. Geeze, these guys say just what industry pays them to say. Wow! The Name Norm Famous reminds me of one of the Lounge Lizards wannabe types. Very interesting to know he is the husband of Marcia Spenser-Famous. I had a sneaking suspicion he was. The name is unusual, if not famous. Heh. Another conflict of interest, ya think?
At 11:28am on January 24, 2010, Art Brigades said…
Investigative reporting.... We need to whip this beast a little better.

Interesting to read Tux Turkel's piece this morning. While his focus was narrowly on noise, and only at Vinalhaven, it surely helped puncture the huge bubble just a bit. More noteworthy than what he wrote was what he did not write.

How he could interview Hanna Pingree and NOT ask her why she withdrew her turbine noise bill is either abject stupidity or laziness. Legislators regularly rush to the statehouse with a new bill whenever a constituent says "there oughtta be a law..."

Could it be that he didn't ask the Speaker of the House (who can get anything she wants to a public hearing) why she doesn't think this is worthy of a bill, or why she isn't raising holy hell over getting a hearing???

It would be one thing if her district was Old Orchard Beach, but these are HER constituents who are under the bus!! Investigative reporting??? Please. One doesn't need to be a political veteran to know that the ties that bind among the Pingrees, Baldaccis, Adamses, and the wind mafia are very tight indeed. Turn a blind eye to a monumental calamity in your state, district, and town why? To repay political favors? Now that's a story that'll sell papers.

Turkel needs to pursue this angle. He also needs to expose the tragic economic realities of this trojan horse that has been wheeled into Maine.
 
 
 

 

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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