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Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post Aroostook Wind - Will they actually be able to build this travesty and the transmission travesty it would need?
"Crossing the St Lawrence river last week I saw another huge wind installation being built on the Gaspe, which is one of the most beautiful peninsulas on the planet.  It was very discouraging, and makes me wonder when we're going to revert…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Aroostook Wind - Will they actually be able to build this travesty and the transmission travesty it would need?
"FERC would have to be blind not to see how ridiculous this proposal is. Move intermittent wind power across the entire length of New England at a cost of several billions of dollars. Only someone as dumb as Troy Jackson could think up such a stupid…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post CMP is back with a huge power project and fresh political problems
"This is no more than a regulatory agency guessing what wholesale electricity prices will be up to 20 years down the road in a market controlled by Massachusetts and Connecticut. Since 2018, this regulatory agency has incurred a losing record for…"
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Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post After years of delays, commission advances northern Maine transmission and wind project
"It's actually very painful to read this.  The "players" will be enriched, the ratepayers will be fleeced and the environment will be degraded. Ad nauseam. "
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post After years of delays, commission advances northern Maine transmission and wind project
"I can now see why James LaBrecque is so adamant of putting engineers on the Commission. These three are buffons."
Aug 27
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine PUC selects developer for 800 megawatt northern Maine wind power project
""Commission Chair Phil Bartlett said the project will save Maine electric customers at least $387 million over its lifetime. " We will never see the spreadsheets that provide this questionable data, but Bartlett and the Cartel are doing…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine PUC selects developer for 800 megawatt northern Maine wind power project
"The Maine PUC has approved over 1300 megawatts of capacity in 20 year long term renwable contracts. Add Net Energy Billing 20 year contracts of 1334 megawatts and Maine's annual peak electrical demand of 2031 megawatts has been exceeded by 603…"
Aug 27
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine PUC selects developer for 800 megawatt northern Maine wind power project
"This just shows how low Bartlett will go to please the renewable energy lobby. Having said that, a curious statement made by the reporter explains the quiet part out loud and clear: "The Maine Legislature directed the PUC to develop wind…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Why investment profit is at the center of CMP’s rate hike
"Grid Upgrades: How much is attributed to solar farm connections? Added Staff: How much is directly related to policies made in Augusta? Storm Recovery: Check the invoices  RATE OF RETURNS ON INVESTMENTS: Could this be a diversionary tactic to…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Energy Secretary Chris Wright Tours Massive Maine Battery Project
"Form Energy’s iron-air battery storage facilities have an expected useful service life of , losing less than 2% of their capacity annually. Year 1 roundtrip loss factor 0.65 x 0.65 = 0.4225  That means about 20,118 MWh must be taken from…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Energy Secretary Chris Wright Tours Massive Maine Battery Project
"Steady Charge Rate: Given that a complete 0% to 100% charge takes roughly 100 hours, about 4 days, the system gains capacity at an average rate of 1% per hour.  Accounting for its round-trip efficiency of about 40%  the system will take…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Energy Secretary Chris Wright Tours Massive Maine Battery Project
"Form Energy’s iron-air battery storage facility would be located at the former Lincoln Paper and Tissue mill site in Lincoln, Maine. [1, 2] This major project, situated within the developing Lincoln Technology Park, represents a massive leap…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Energy Secretary Chris Wright Tours Massive Maine Battery Project
"FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF MEGAPACK BATTERY SYSTEM; 2023 PRICING https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/financial-analysis-of-megapack-battery-system-2023-pricing By Willem Post .  Utility-scale, battery system pricing usually not made public,…"
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Aroostook Wind - Will they actually be able to build this travesty and the transmission travesty it would need?

A huge wind farm is coming to northern Maine. How will it impact bills?

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9/2/26

Ethan Horton

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Maine regulators recently gave the green light for a massive new wind farm in Aroostook County, a project…
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Posted on September 2, 2026 at 1:07pm — 4 Comments

CMP is back with a huge power project and fresh political problems

August 21, 2026



Regulators revived a massive energy bet by handing the reworked Aroostook County wind transmission project to Central Maine Power Co.’s parent company, and it is already drawing fire from a corner of the Republican Party that helped write the law behind it.

The Maine Public Utilities Commission announced Tuesday that Avangrid will build a 1,200-megawatt transmission line connecting northern Maine to the regional grid, while another developer will build an…

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Posted on August 31, 2026 at 4:11pm — 2 Comments

After years of delays, commission advances northern Maine transmission and wind project

By Kaitlyn Budion -

August 25, 2026 4:57 pm

The Maine Public Utilities Commission will finally move forward with plans for a new transmission line to northern Maine and an 800 megawatt wind project. 

At a regular meeting Tuesday, commissioners selected Avangrid, the parent company of Central Maine Power, to build the transmission line and Clearway Energy Group to build the onshore wind…

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Posted on August 27, 2026 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments

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At 9:10pm on June 17, 2015, Eskutassis said…

The arguments we have with those on the other side are really amazing.  I saw yours on the PPH article.  I posted one too.

At 11:13am on July 17, 2013, Peter Beckford said…

Yo Long Islander, can you do anything to give my blog post the widest audience, like emailing it on to everyone or something? Thanks a lot, Peter Beckford

We appreciate the steady diet of posts from you

At 8:03pm on July 14, 2012, Wind Scam said…
Wind Scam Artists strategies to destroy "America the Beautiful".
 
This is long, but it is worth scanning all of it. Be sure to download and search for your Reps. and Senators too. Don't forget to share with all.
This shows the backroom dealings of these wind scam artists and our politicians ramming this "Rip Off" unreliable and unproductive wind energy crap down our thro@@t.
 
Don't miss there campaign to save wind jobs that cost the American Taxpayer in excess of $8,000,000 each also, why because it come our of our wallets and purses.
Be sure to check out all their propaganda goals to destroy the Beautiful United States and make each of us pay for this destruction from "Fake Renewable Energy".
At 7:31am on February 29, 2012, Allen Barrette said…

Ok lets update Americas status first there are millions of abandoned homes from foreclosure, there is less electricity for lights,furnaces,etc. being used today  so we all can relax with the scare of congesting our grids. There is plenty of current being generated at the moment. So what steps do we take to rid our lands of the dinosaur turbines that this foreign company called first wind first and they are not from New England originally folks. The office in Boston is just a front to be what they thought was going to be action. Obama our fearless leader wants to keep this going,The wasteful spending, allowing the companies to change names as fast as the sun sets,how they do business,How they are awarded these funds I'll never understand because there is in my opinion no practical method in deciding who gets funding for these energy projects. I am disgusted at this administration, If you were working in my company I"d fire you for insubordination, you know your not suppose to use public money for your personal interests. It has to be personal because it surely is not a public interest  Shame on you ----- Got Vision           

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At 8:08pm on March 27, 2010, Mary Elen Marucci said…
HI, Ita a geodatabase I am building with two others as a project in intro GIS. Has to do with state and local ordinance rules affecting possible sites in a particular town. I enjoyed your picture gallery. Mary Ellen
At 10:52pm on March 14, 2010, Joanne Moore said…
Thanks for the link to the report. Geeze, these guys say just what industry pays them to say. Wow! The Name Norm Famous reminds me of one of the Lounge Lizards wannabe types. Very interesting to know he is the husband of Marcia Spenser-Famous. I had a sneaking suspicion he was. The name is unusual, if not famous. Heh. Another conflict of interest, ya think?
At 11:28am on January 24, 2010, Art Brigades said…
Investigative reporting.... We need to whip this beast a little better.

Interesting to read Tux Turkel's piece this morning. While his focus was narrowly on noise, and only at Vinalhaven, it surely helped puncture the huge bubble just a bit. More noteworthy than what he wrote was what he did not write.

How he could interview Hanna Pingree and NOT ask her why she withdrew her turbine noise bill is either abject stupidity or laziness. Legislators regularly rush to the statehouse with a new bill whenever a constituent says "there oughtta be a law..."

Could it be that he didn't ask the Speaker of the House (who can get anything she wants to a public hearing) why she doesn't think this is worthy of a bill, or why she isn't raising holy hell over getting a hearing???

It would be one thing if her district was Old Orchard Beach, but these are HER constituents who are under the bus!! Investigative reporting??? Please. One doesn't need to be a political veteran to know that the ties that bind among the Pingrees, Baldaccis, Adamses, and the wind mafia are very tight indeed. Turn a blind eye to a monumental calamity in your state, district, and town why? To repay political favors? Now that's a story that'll sell papers.

Turkel needs to pursue this angle. He also needs to expose the tragic economic realities of this trojan horse that has been wheeled into Maine.
 
 
 

 

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

******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********

(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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