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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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Willem Post commented on Dan McKay's blog post Is CO2 a pollutant?
"We need higher CO2 ppm to increase flora and fauna, reduce desert areas, and increase crop yields per acre to better feed 8 billion people"
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Willem Post commented on Thinklike A. Mountain's blog post $16 Trillion Down the Drain - Climate Change the Greatest Financial Scandal in History
"New England needs additional pipelines and gas storage systems to provide abundant, domestic, low-cost, clean-burning pipeline gas from Pennsylvania. That gas would be used in 60% efficient GAS-fired CCGT power plants that are quick to construct at…"
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Dan McKay commented on Thinklike A. Mountain's blog post $16 Trillion Down the Drain - Climate Change the Greatest Financial Scandal in History
"The culprits of this scam are well known. They deserve more than the wall of shame to pay for the costs that every single person with the exception of the grifters have had to pay for this fallacy.  Janet Mills' signature is on many…"
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$16 Trillion Down the Drain - Climate Change the Greatest Financial Scandal in History

February 18, 2026 Blog, Steve MooreEnvironmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex.And for what?Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources. The war on safe and abundant fossil fuels has cost countless lives in poor countries and made those countries poorer by blocking affordable energy.Since the global…See More
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post All Residential Electricity May Soon Be Exempt from Sales Tax in Maine
"What about the Efficiency Maine Trust tax and the carbon dioxide tax that has no basis to exist. Or the REC payments that have no basis to exist because the EPA endangerment rule is gone.What about the NEB tax; it is based on the endangerment act…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post All Residential Electricity May Soon Be Exempt from Sales Tax in Maine
"That will be a false saving, because the state will just jack up some other taxes to offset the revenue loss"
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on arthur qwenk's blog post EV's..Those Wonderful Maine and Vermont School Buses......Failed ...Big Waste Of Taxpayer Money .
"GENIUS: Vermont Spent Millions on Electric Buses That Turned Out to be ‘Unreliable’ in Cold Weather by Mike LaChance Feb. 17, 2026 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/genius-vermont-spent-millions-electric-buses-that-turned/"
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Willem Post commented on arthur qwenk's blog post Maine Needs To Be Nuked!
"Small nukes are experimental  They produce electricity at 20 c/kWh without subsidies, about 4 times CCGT plants fired with plentiful, domestic, clean-burning, low-cost, natural gas from Pennsylvania  BUILD MORE PIPELINES TO NEW ENGLAND NOW"
Wednesday
Willem Post commented on arthur qwenk's blog post Maine Needs To Be Nuked!
"The U.S. is trying to sell subsidized nukes to Hungary and Armenia. why not to Maine, etc?"
Tuesday
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine lawmakers consider moratorium on new data centers
"Data centers must come with their own highly efficient, clean-burning, gas-fired CCGT plants, to provide uninterrupted electricity 24/7/365 Highly subsidized, environmentally destructive, expensive, wind and solar systems that produce expensive…"
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arthur qwenk posted a blog post

Maine Needs To Be Nuked!

Small Nukes are the FutureUS Military Conducts First Airlift of Next-Gen Nuclear Reactor to UtahThe Pentagon said the reactor is small in size and can generate up to 5 megawatts of electricity.Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Undersecretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment Michael Duffey on board a C-17 cargo plane that transported Valar Atomics' Ward nuclear microreactor from March Air Force Base in California to Hill Air Force Base in Utah on Feb. 15, 2026. Valerie…See More
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Richard Silkman: Maine must not go from Vacationland to Generationland
"Silkman, how about stop making Maine people pay for Maine sited plants."
Monday
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Richard Silkman: Maine must not go from Vacationland to Generationland
"Source: ISO-NE Generator Interconnection Queue (January 2026); FERC Jurisdictional Proposals; Nameplate Capacity Ratings Notice the chart tagged: Proposed Resources by State. Silman says Maine must become Generationland" Doesn't…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Richard Silkman: Maine must not go from Vacationland to Generationland
"New Hampshire is fed up with the launch of the misguided belief that New England can go 100% renewable energy to produce electricity. They capped their renewable portfolio at 15% and are very disappointed to see their electricity rates soar higher…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Richard Silkman: Maine must not go from Vacationland to Generationland
"How can anyone from Maine want to have more wind, solar and battery junk spewed across our state? The nuclear revival age is upon us and will grow and overtake renewables because it is the ultimate renewable. Now that the C02 rule that had…"
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Is CO2 a pollutant?

Posted by Dan McKay on February 20, 2026 at 7:58am — 1 Comment

Solar companies lose bid to restore Maine incentives

Posted by Dan McKay on February 20, 2026 at 7:17am

Maine Needs To Be Nuked!

Posted by arthur qwenk on February 16, 2026 at 10:27am — 2 Comments

LS Power Redo

Posted by Dan McKay on February 14, 2026 at 6:55am

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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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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    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."

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