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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).

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

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AI Overview Vineyard Wind

AI Overview Vineyard Wind .Based on available reports, while 300+ foot (roughly 90-107 meter) wind turbine blades—such as those used on GE Vernova’s Haliade-X—have undergone extensive laboratory testing, reports indicate that full-scale, long-term field testing in extreme cold weather environments (0°F or below) was limited or incomplete before some, including those at…See More
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The Coverup is on

The "Maine Wire" has an article about the Taxation Committee of the Maine Legislaure proposing monetary electric bill relief to low income customers through tax credits, whether one owes taxes or not. This is one Committee covering up for another Committee as in the Taxation Committee covering for rate hikes developed in the EUT Committee. Isn't it interesting that the sponsor of this bill, Kilton Webb, serves not only in the Taxation Commiittee, but serves in the EUT Committee as well.…See More
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Press Herald columnist criticizes the growing success of the Maine Wire
"The extreme, leftist Portland Press Herald is behind an onerous paywall. It usually puts out the government/ industry PR talking points of wind and solar that woke, leftist, Democrat bureaucrats and self-serving Democrat and RINO Politicians repeat…"
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Dan McKay commented on Dan McKay's blog post Gas Generation in Maine Doubles Over the Time Period That Lawmakers, Renewable Lobbyists and Climate Activists Proclaimed as the " Age of Fossil Fuel Eradication"
"Ok, I have looked up numbers, according to RGGI: In 2010 Maine electric plants emitted 3,900,000 tons of CO2  In 2024 Maine electric plants emitted 2,600,000 tons of CO2 In 2010 Maine had 846 megawatt capacity oil plants in 2024 Maine had 746…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Navigate to Maine PUC comment box in less than 30 seconds (Aroostook Wind Monstrosity & Transmission, etc.)
"Thanks, Long Islander. I am sure once the covered up Aroostook Wind Project is brought into the sunlight, people will send the PUC a piece of their minds."
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Press Herald columnist criticizes the growing success of the Maine Wire
"Poor confused PPH writer, it's the Democrats who will have their careers brought to a halt thanks to the online "Maine Wire" and the " Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power- Maine""
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Dan McKay commented on Dan McKay's blog post Keep it Quiet. Nobody Needs to Know Until it is Too Late
"The PUC case number for this RFP is 2025-00361 and is open to public comments"
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Dan McKay posted blog posts
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Dan McKay's blog post Gas Generation in Maine Doubles Over the Time Period That Lawmakers, Renewable Lobbyists and Climate Activists Proclaimed as the " Age of Fossil Fuel Eradication"
"Reporter in Maine Finds Building With Ten Somali-Owned Home Healthcare Companies – Landlord Says No One is Ever There (VIDEO) https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/more-fraud-reporter-maine-finds-building-ten-somali/"
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Frank Haggerty's blog post President Trump Wind Turbine Tariffs
"Reporter in Maine Finds Building With Ten Somali-Owned Home Healthcare Companies – Landlord Says No One is Ever There (VIDEO) https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/more-fraud-reporter-maine-finds-building-ten-somali/"
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Dan McKay commented on Dan McKay's blog post Gas Generation in Maine Doubles Over the Time Period That Lawmakers, Renewable Lobbyists and Climate Activists Proclaimed as the " Age of Fossil Fuel Eradication"
"How much more money must we waste, Speaker Fecteau?"
Wednesday
Richard McDonald/Saving Maine commented on Long Islander's blog post ALERT: Important EUT Hearing 1PM Today Jan 20 - LD 838 titled “An Act to Establish the Maine Clean Energy Authority"
"More of the same tactics --  the emminent domain fake study/legislation and the codification of the Aroostook project in legislation  - they're walling out the public from any attempt at oversight - the NECEC battle comes to mind -…"
Wednesday
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Trying to slip one by - Maine lawmakers consider public funding for electric infrastructure
"Captive Legislator Lawrence, who knows nothing about the economics of energy systems, is just a useful, sloganeering, idiot mouthpiece. He has been fed the Kool Aid PR crap of self-serving bureaucrats and foreign and domestic wealthy elites with…"
Wednesday
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Trying to slip one by - Maine lawmakers consider public funding for electric infrastructure
"Frump sponsor said his bill wasn't about taking over CMP and Versant, but one wonders why Seth Berry of Our Power was there offering opinions of what should be included in this bill. "
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Trying to slip one by - Maine lawmakers consider public funding for electric infrastructure
"Frump sponsor also said he was agnostic to any generation resource that would flow through these transmission lines proposed with his bill. That is an out and out lie, as he stated further into his testimony that is favorite generation type was…"
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Repowering Existing Maine Wind Plants With Your Money.

Posted by Dan McKay on January 24, 2026 at 9:37am

It's Cold

Posted by Dan McKay on January 24, 2026 at 9:20am

AI Overview Vineyard Wind

Posted by Frank Haggerty on January 23, 2026 at 10:01pm

The Coverup is on

Posted by Dan McKay on January 23, 2026 at 9:17am

President Trump Wind Turbine Tariffs

Posted by Frank Haggerty on January 20, 2026 at 8:55am — 2 Comments

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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2 Dead From Wind Turbine Blade Detachment

Wind Turbine Blade Slices Through Entire Car, Kills 2 in Grisly Accident…Continue

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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

     

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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."

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