"When Will We Ever Learn", Dudley Gray nails it.
The following was written by Dudley Gray, an old friend and fellow wind warrior who is still fighting the good fight. He submitted it to The Maine Wire:
Subject: Fwd:When will we ever learn?
Thirty years of Democrat power, interrupted only once, has left Maine
in a sorry state. A chronological lesson of failure is necessary to
explain just how badly Maine residents have been represented.
Besides closing the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant, Governor Angus
King caused our two public utilities, CMP and Bangor Hydro, to divest
their generating assets, primarily power dams. This law, enacted in
1999, caused the sale of the utilities to the Spaniards and the
Canadians, respectively.
These actions between 1995 and 2003 set the stage for the widespread
adoption of wind and solar farms on a large scale, without any benefit
to Maine ratepayers. (Please keep in mind that electricity rates were
8.4 cents per KWH in 1995) Governor King left incoming Governor
Baldacci a 1.1 billion dollar structural deficit.
Then, Governor Baldacci, current vice-chairman of Avangrid, the
Spanish subsidiary of Iberdrola, owner of CMP, gave us the Expedited
Wind Law, which destroyed our mountaintops, ridges, and vistas, still
without any benefit to Maine ratepayers. Governor Baldacci's crowning
achievement was to hand the incoming Republican Governor
Paul LePage an even bigger 1.3 billion dollar structural deficit.
Governor LePage challenged this travesty by freezing hiring,
eliminating no-show jobs, cutting expenses, renegotiating the state
liquor contract, and repaying Maine hospitals 750 million in
MaineCare bad debt.
He left office in 2019 and gave Governor Mills a 167.8 million dollar
surplus, which she and the Democrat legislature have squandered
beyond belief. As Janet Mills leaves office to run against Sen. Susan
Collins, she hands the next occupant of the Blaine House a 949 million
deficit. We desperately need a conservative Republican Governor and
legislature to stop the bleeding; otherwise, the state will end up
statistically bankrupt like Washington County.
Lastly, Maine has over 400 grid-scale wind turbines and over 2 million
solar panels in 141 separate solar farms, while at the same time
electricity rates are nearing $.30 per kilowatt hour. Somebody needs
to explain the benefit to Maine's own, and also who got rich on these
two scams, besides two of our aforementiond Governors.
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Comment by Dan McKay 5 hours ago
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That is one wise man.
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
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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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