Nice to see Maine media covering 8th graders going to "wind turbine challenge"

This is the same Maine media that has essentially participated in a blackout of the rather significant recent news that Maine's only publicly funded onshore wind turbine, that at UMPI, was destroyed in a fire. And certainly no coverage on the implications of this fire - that a fire like that during a drought on a remote ridge top could cause tremendous devastation to Maine's forests and fire departments would have no way of putting it out. And basically nothing from the Maine media exposing the overall fraud that is wind.

So again - the University of Maine's multi million dollar industrial wind turbine burns down and nary a peep, but some 8th graders participating in an industry event gets news coverage. Folks, we might as well have state run media as in the 1960's Soviet Union. 

This is one reason we should not have monopolies. Does one man, Reade Brower's ownership of every daily newspaper in the state (and plenty of weeklies) except for the BDN bother you? Does anyone think the people of Maine are properly served when a single person controls such a large majority of the local news?

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Comment by Frank J. Heller, MPA on July 28, 2018 at 9:45am

I tried a few years ago to switch over to the much more interesting area of designing a better hydropower generator for stream, lake and tide. ZERO interest and I got ignored, since this was a wind industry funded event to propagandize wind farming and create a new generation of advocates. The designs for wind turbines have been reduced to computer models, and other elements like towers, generators, transmissions, etc. are not included. 

Several high schools, like deer Isle did hydro power on their own. I think it was an individual effort by a science teacher. They did a floating generator.

Comment by Art Brigades on July 27, 2018 at 9:50pm

To hell with "the media."

We are "the media."

Comment by Marie Jane on April 13, 2018 at 8:44am

Media, in general, has a hands-off-all-things-industrial-wind-turbine-policy except for front page above the fold "blade signings" or similar "events" and highlighting youth propaganda under the guise of "education" .. similar propaganda occurring in Massachusetts schools. A single person may control local news; but, who controls those in control of local news?

Comment by Paul Ackerman on April 12, 2018 at 9:57pm

Really what we have  with Reade Brower controlling all the dailies except the BDN (which tilts far left as well) is not "state run media" ala Pravda,but something far worse; uber liberal viewpoints continually poured over the populace as if this is the ONLY reasonable way to think about what these papers deign to print.

RB may pay lip service to giving "all voices" an opportunity to get column inches,but that is far far from the reality of it. 

Our column,Another View, in the Courier Gazette/Camden Herald/Village Soup originally (but now goes out to I think 11 other small papers) has been recently cut back to "every other week" ...and with an editor who can spike a column with the most specious of excuses. 

Reade's own column has routinely attacked our column in the same issue,how's that for "I'm not involved in editorial decisions..." ? 

It seems apparent to our writers group that they have a design to diminish, and ultimately eliminate, any conservative viewpoint prior to the 2018 mid-terms.

So,yes,I think it is far worse than the state doing it,this is put forth as "independent journalism" and it is anything but that. It is a media mogul and his acolytes burying any dissent from their orthodoxy in service of their political agenda. 

 

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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

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"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."

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