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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 Future of Maine’s electric vehicle charging network in limbo as federal changes loom
"Give the EV and NEVI to the private market to advance or retreat as the profitability will dictate. This Government action to make all pay for an elite market to exist is as unconstitutional as making all pay to send people on ocean cruises."
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Frank Haggerty's blog post Environmental Groups That Took Wind Industry Money
"Look into the environmental NGO's. Peter Thiel Calls for Prosecution of Corrupt NGOs https://rumble.com/v6sbowr-peter-thiel-calls-for-prosecution-of-corrupt-ngos.html"
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post The Poor Babies - Massachusetts communities that bet big on wind face uncertainty
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Willem Post commented on Frank Haggerty's blog post Environmental Groups That Took Wind Industry Money
"That is a great list for wide distribution  Wind  $elites give money to the Corporate Media and to local communities to bribe them One big clique of self-serving schlemiels to further enrich the elites, and legislators, at the expense of…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post The Poor Babies - Massachusetts communities that bet big on wind face uncertainty
"This misinformed, selfish, person is shilling for even more, very expensive, highly subsidized, 800-ft-tall, environmentally damaging, offshore windmills, $/MW installed, that produce weather-dependent, variable/intermittent, grid-disturbing…"
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arthur qwenk commented on Frank Haggerty's blog post Environmental Groups That Took Wind Industry Money
"For years in Maine it was known that First Wind distributed monies to Audubon,Nature Conservancy, NRCM and the others listed in this important article for influence, otherwise known as BRIBES. This is condoned and routine. It should also be noted…"
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Willem Post commented on Willem Post's blog post A Political Nor’easter: Super-Expensive, Empire Offshore Wind Project Hits a Wall
"HIGH COST/kWh OF W/S SYSTEMS FOISTED ONTO A BRAINWASHED PUBLIC  https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/high-cost-kwh-of-w-s-systems-foisted-onto-a-brainwashed-public-1 By Willem Post . What is generally not known, the more…"
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Environmental Groups That Took Wind Industry Money

Conflicts of Interest: Environmental Organizations Take Offshore Wind Industry Moneyhttps://docs.wind-watch.org/Save-RIght-Whales-COI-report.pdfEnvironmental organizations that have accepted wind industry donations 1. Woods Hole Oceanographic…See More
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on arthur qwenk's blog post A Tariff War With China Will Help Destroy the Renewable Scam - Financial Times- IMHO...GREAT!
"Here is the One Thing Trump Needs to Do That Changes EVERYTHING: Prove the 2020 Election was Stolen…"
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post GAO report: 'wind turbines can reduce the performance of radar systems used for defense and maritime navigation and safety in several ways…'
"Here is the One Thing Trump Needs to Do That Changes EVERYTHING: Prove the 2020 Election was Stolen…"
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Dan McKay's blog post Illegal Rates Charged to Maine Electric Customers
"Here is the One Thing Trump Needs to Do That Changes EVERYTHING: Prove the 2020 Election was Stolen…"
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Willem Post's blog post A Political Nor’easter: Super-Expensive, Empire Offshore Wind Project Hits a Wall
"Here is the One Thing Trump Needs to Do That Changes EVERYTHING: Prove the 2020 Election was Stolen…"
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Willem Post commented on Willem Post's blog post A Political Nor’easter: Super-Expensive, Empire Offshore Wind Project Hits a Wall
"BATTERY SYSTEM CAPITAL COSTS, OPERATING COSTS, ENERGY LOSSES, AND AGINGhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/battery-system-capital-costs-losses-and-aging by Willem Post .  Utility-scale, battery system pricing usually is not made…"
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Illegal Rates Charged to Maine Electric Customers

Posted by Dan McKay on April 17, 2025 at 10:34am — 1 Comment

NUCLEAR PLANTS TOO EXPENSIVE?

Posted by Willem Post on April 15, 2025 at 10:30am

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

Started by arthur qwenk Jul 7, 2024.

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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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