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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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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Aroostook-Central Maine Wind Power Line Fight - Four websites to visit
"A Good Start. The comments to the PUC are amazing. Don't let up. We pay for their existence."
10 hours ago
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine PUC: "Aroostook costs would be offset by the projects’ economic and environmental advantages" (PROVE IT!!!!)
"Unless a nuclear power plant is to be built in Aroostook County, there is no other plant, except firm 24/7 Canadian hydro, that justifies such a remote connection to the New England grid allowing for the fact that the dominant power needs are in…"
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Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine PUC: "Aroostook costs would be offset by the projects’ economic and environmental advantages" (PROVE IT!!!!)
"Will they ever present real figures and a cost benefit analysis to the Maine ratepayers?  Will the real environmental costs ever be mentioned?  It does seem as if people are waking up a bit, but not nearly fast enough, and they still…"
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Willem Post's blog post Justin Trudeau’s Speaker of the House, Anthony Rota, invited a 98-year-old Nazi SS officer to Parliament on Friday, and celebrated him as a hero.
15 hours ago
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Richard McDonald/Saving Maine's blog post Democrats Worried They Can't Cheat Enough To Beat Trump
15 hours ago
Dan McKay posted a blog post

2 Year, $15 million from taxpayers going to pay electric bills (for some)

Electric bills are very high.A good portion of that increase is due to legislative actions granting wind, solar and battery projects premium payments for their cruddy power received directly from the ratepayers. NOTE: The actual cost is hidden from disclosure on monthly bills = NO TRANSPARENCY!!!Intended consequences always included jacking up rates from these renewable programs to allocate to non-paying electric customers disguised as low-income compensation.Communism at work in Augusta. "The…See More
21 hours ago
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Dan McKay's blog post Net Zero by 2050.
"On the take from a foreign enemy: Hunter Received Two Bank Wires Originating from Beijing in 2019 with Beneficiary Address Listed as Joe Biden’s Delaware Home The Bank of China Limited is state…"
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Willem Post commented on Willem Post's blog post U.S. Offshore Wind Plans Are Utterly Collapsing
"Floating offshore wind is the most expensive. It costs about $7000 to $8000 per installed kW, so 144 MW of ten 850-ft tall wind turbines will cost at least $1.2 billion, plus onshore grid expansion/reinforcement to integrate the new power, which…"
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Dan McKay's blog post Silicon Valley Bank Provided Massive Amounts of Capital to Chinese Tech Ventures – Now Biden FDIC and Federal Reverse Are Bailing It Out – Clearly Biden Is Working for China
"On the take from a foreign enemy: Hunter Received Two Bank Wires Originating from Beijing in 2019 with Beneficiary Address Listed as Joe Biden’s Delaware Home The Bank of China Limited is state…"
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Richard McDonald/Saving Maine's blog post China Says.... "Good Luck With Your Green New Deal"
"On the take from a foreign enemy: Hunter Received Two Bank Wires Originating from Beijing in 2019 with Beneficiary Address Listed as Joe Biden’s Delaware Home The Bank of China Limited is state…"
yesterday
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Richard McDonald/Saving Maine's blog post Democrats Worried They Can't Cheat Enough To Beat Trump
"On the take from a foreign enemy: Hunter Received Two Bank Wires Originating from Beijing in 2019 with Beneficiary Address Listed as Joe Biden’s Delaware Home The Bank of China Limited is state…"
yesterday
Dan McKay commented on Willem Post's blog post U.S. Offshore Wind Plans Are Utterly Collapsing
"Wind power in Maine is no breeze as regulators move slowly A deliberate move by the Maine PUC to wear down the opposition?"
yesterday
Dan McKay commented on Thinklike A. Mountain's blog post CNN - Rich, white communities most likely to oppose wind farms, study finds
"The privilege of paying higher electricity bills to pay low-income people's bills and subsidize 15% savings for solar scam participants is overwhelmingly white behavior."
yesterday
Willem Post commented on Richard McDonald/Saving Maine's blog post Democrats Worried They Can't Cheat Enough To Beat Trump
"Richard, Democrats will do anything not to loose contr oil over the federal government  They have tricks up their sleeves. just mark my words"
Wednesday
Richard McDonald/Saving Maine commented on Richard McDonald/Saving Maine's blog post Democrats Worried They Can't Cheat Enough To Beat Trump
"At some level I agree Willem, but the cats out of the bag on ballot harvesting, drop boxes, etc. It's going to be more diifficult to pull off another 2020. They'll try like hell, but as Sundance makes the cae, if Trump's margin is too…"
Tuesday
Willem Post commented on Richard McDonald/Saving Maine's blog post Democrats Worried They Can't Cheat Enough To Beat Trump
"As long as the ballots are controlled/manipulated by the Democrat-controlled big cities, Trump does not have a chance, because those Democrats will add ballots FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES, to win a state, even if the counted ballots exceed registered…"
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      - Margaret Mead

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U.S. Offshore Wind Plans Are Utterly Collapsing

Posted by Willem Post on September 25, 2023 at 3:30pm — 4 Comments

Net Zero by 2050.

Posted by Dan McKay on September 24, 2023 at 7:45am — 2 Comments

The Evolution of the American Police State

Posted by Thinklike A. Mountain on September 23, 2023 at 7:00pm

Dudley Gray Investigating EV Lies

Posted by Dan McKay on September 23, 2023 at 8:28am — 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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Be wary your state is in the crosshairs 1 Reply

Ever since the "pandemic" you can see every aspect of the way we live our lives is under attack.but it doesn't stop there!Huge corporations are buying up beloved farms, destroying open space with cluster housing and subdivisions, all the while…Continue

Started by Dianne Reed. Last reply by Penny Gray May 24, 2022.

Offshore wind energy extraction: Bigger turbines than ever as industry poised to spread into Gulf of Maine.

At the Offshore Wind  event at the Maine Fishermen's Forum, the industry supporters note that a push  is on to start setting up windfarms in the Gulf of Maine.   …Continue

Started by Ron Huber Mar 8, 2020.

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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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