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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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"Wind/Solar production tax credit phased out Based on the recent Senate bill (as of July 1, 2025), the federal production tax credits (PTC) for wind and solar projects are set to phase out sooner than originally outlined in the Inflation Reduction…"
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MA & RI Offshore Wind Boondoggle Off Until 2026

Massachusetts, since 2005, has accumulated around 100 megawatts of land-based wind power and 100 megawatts of offshore wind power. The original goal was 2,000 megawatts of land-based wind power by the year 2020 and a goal of 5,600 megawatts of offshore wind. A catastrophic failure. .1. Seventeen states argue that the Trump offshore wind Executive Order, EO, is illegal…See More
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Willem Post commented on Frank Haggerty's blog post Massachusetts and Southcoast Wind Balks Offshore Contracts To 2026
"AI systems require lots of steady electricity  Each major AIR system should be required to have its own power plant By definition, wind and solar do not qualify "
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Willem Post commented on Frank Haggerty's blog post Massachusetts and Southcoast Wind Balks Offshore Contracts To 2026
"At present, no country is set up to produce, say 50 SMRs per year. , at 200 MW each It would require increased uranium mining, processing it to fuel bundles, constructing factories to produce components and subassemblies, assembling the final unit…"
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Willem Post commented on Frank Haggerty's blog post Massachusetts and Southcoast Wind Balks Offshore Contracts To 2026
"SMR sounds good, but the electricity cost/kWh would be at least 2 times gas fired CCGT plants that are up to 60% efficient, have very low CO2/kWh. It would take at least 5 to 8 years to build such SMRs A 500 MW (2 units at 250 MW each) CCGT power…"
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Massachusetts and Southcoast Wind Balks Offshore Contracts To 2026

Massachusetts DPU June 30, 2025-Offshore Wind Off Until 2026 "Long-Term Contracts for Offshore Wind Energy Generation Pursuant to Section 83C of Chapter 169 of the Acts of 2008, as Amended – D.P.U. 23-42".."The current Section 83C RFP schedule, as amended, anticipates that contract execution with two counterparties will occur by June 30, 2025. Due to ongoing uncertainty…See More
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Maine Chooses to Pay a Carbon Tax and It Costs Millions

30% of natural gas production prices is the carbon tax assessed by RGGI. All generators producing into the market get a 30% bump up price from RGGI.                                           ISO-NE Statement belowEfficiency Maine Trust receives RGGI revenues in addition to many other revenues.EMT sells claimed electricity savings into the Forward Capacity Market (FCM)EMT…See More
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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.

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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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    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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