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BOWERS PROJECT DEFEATED!!

AN EPIC FAIL FOR FIRST WIND

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court issued its decision denying Champlain Wind LLC's appeal concerning a permit for its Bowers Wind Project in Carroll Plt and Kossuth Twp. Champlain Wind is a subsidiary of Maine's largest wind developer, First Wind. The decision marks the end of a six year process of hearings and appeals which pitted the wind developer against local residents, professional guides, traditional sporting camp owners and loyal visitors to Maine's famed Downeast Lakes Region. Spearheading the opposition was the Partnership for the Preservation of the Downeast Lakes Watershed (PPDLW).

More here:

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/bowers-wind-project-defeated

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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post How much money has been spent subsidizing heat pumps in Maine?
"Air source heat pumps = $24.03 to $28.99 per million BTUs Heating oil                   = $24.44 per million BTUs And heating oil prices are going down while electricity prices are going up"
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Google Agrees To Buy Nuclear Power From Small Modular Reactors To Be Built By Kairos Power

Monday, Oct 14, 2024 - 03:40 PMFirst it was Amazon, then Microsoft, now Google telegraphs why the "next AI trade" will generate obnoxious amounts of alpha in the coming…See More
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Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post NEFSA Petition Urging Janet Mills to Halt Development of Offshore Wind in Gulf of Maine Receives Over 2,500 Signatures
"What ever happened to the environmentalists?  Are they all as extinct as the whales and fishermen are about to be?"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine delegation concludes offshore wind mission in Denmark, Norway
"The Mills idiots are asking the foxes, if they like chickens, by going on an expensive junket flying first class and staying at 5-star hotels, while ordinary, already-suffering, impoverished Mainers are wondering how to make ends meet. My answer to…"
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Willem Post commented on Frank Haggerty's blog post Officials Hacked Vineyard Wind Blade To Pass Torsion Test
"Frank,  You need to mention what I wrote in my prior comment to you. Those blades should be tested as prototypes, under real life conditions, in the North Sea"
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Chad Prather - Watered Down (Official Music Video) ft. John Rich

Weblink to video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTZRyYVgUrk&t=196sLyrics“Watered Down”Well, I think I speak for everyone when I say we need a break From where we’ve been.Been fed a lot of lies and fear, Still hurtin’ from takin’ the last few years on the chin.We’re exactly where the devil wants us to be— Far away from God and everything That makes us feel complete… We’reWatered Down Like this whiskey in my glass, Watered…See More
Thursday
Frank Haggerty posted a blog post

Vineyard Wind's New "Hybrid" Blade Never Had Torsion Tests

In 2019 a new record-length hybrid blade measuring 107 meters ( 350 feet) was built in Cherbourg France. .The offshore wind turbine blade needed to be tested and certified to produce hundreds of new blades at Vineyard Wind off Nantucket and Dogger Bank, Europe..There was nowhere in the world to test blades this length so a prototype blade was brought to the Massachusetts…See More
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EV's Anyone? Please, Stay Dry and Avoid Getting Wet.

Try Getting This Article in the Portland Press Herald !Florida calls electric vehicles "ticking time bombs" as Milton nearsStorm surges from Hurricane Milton could turn electric vehicles and other products containing lithium-ion batteries into "ticking time bombs," Florida's fire marshal is warning.Residents and first responders are being cautioned about "an…See More
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Dan McKay commented on Willem Post's blog post The Opposite Of Truth Is Not Just Lies, It Is Chaos...The Harris/Walz ticket must be defeated if America is to prevail.
"MAGA!"
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Oct 8
Dan McKay commented on Thinklike A. Mountain's blog post Biden-Harris Admin Awards $495M Taxpayer Grant to Foreign-Owned Energy Project in Maine
"It comes down to what the Maine PUC commissioners are made of. One of the three commissioners has already removed herself from being involved with this project as she worked for a shill outfit that always lies about the non-existent benefits of wind…"
Oct 8
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Oct 7
Frank Haggerty posted a blog post

Massachusetts Offshore Wind Blade Testing Flaw

Massachusetts has never had a successful wind turbine program..By 2007 a former Massachusetts state legislature representative from East Freetown had sold residential wind turbines using renewable energy credits to residents across the state. Parts of the wind turbines were substituted with more inexpensive parts resulting in failures during mild wind storms. The former…See More
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Geography anyone?

Posted by Long Islander on October 13, 2024 at 11:00am

Jon Reisman: Climate Policy, Polls, and Polarization

Posted by Long Islander on October 13, 2024 at 10:00am

Jon Reisman: Greenhouse Gas Lighting

Posted by Long Islander on October 13, 2024 at 10:00am

Tim Walz’s China ties are just too deep to ignore

Posted by Willem Post on October 12, 2024 at 5:00pm

Nantucket Wind Turbine Worst Ever Built

Posted by Frank Haggerty on October 12, 2024 at 9:21am

The Kamala Farce is Fast Unwinding...

Posted by Willem Post on October 11, 2024 at 6:00pm

Who is EDPR?

EDPR, hoping to build Maine's largest wind factory in The County, likes to say they're from Texas. Click on the box above and you'll see their parent, Energias de Portugal is owned by China Three Gorges which is owned by the People's Republic of China. Protect the United States Treasury from foreign subsidy feeders and protect The County - just say NO.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Three_Gorges_Corporation

Maine Governor's Energy Office's Patrick Woodcock letter seemingly endorsing EDPR's Number Nine wind project.

Number%20Nine%20-%2010-22-15%20-%20Copy.pdf

NRCM's CO2 - From A Different Point of View The PDF document at the following link put NRCM's own published CO2 information into the perspective of the Maine woods and shows the terrible tradeoff that is industrial wind in Maine.  

Putting Maine's Wind Power Goals into Proper Perspective

 

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Has anyone got any research data or articles or studies on infrasound and wind turbines ?  Is it a coincidence wind developers compare turbine sound with refrigerators ? ...................................…Continue

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    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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