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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Yale survey indicates Mainers losing interest in climate change
"A. Lincoln said "You can fool all the people, some of the time, and you can fool some of the people, all of the time, but, you cannot fool all of the people, all of the time" Government, media, experts, environmental groups and people who…"
Aug 3
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post ALERT: New CMP power line selected as 'preferred' solution to improve regional power flows
"As we all know, who have taken out a mortgage or any type of loan requiring incremental payments, the costs escalates dramatically. So a $2.20 billion proposal over 20 years require an annual payment of $4.726 billion. 20 years times $4.726 equals…"
Jul 30
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post ALERT: New CMP power line selected as 'preferred' solution to improve regional power flows
"ISO-NE IS has a new CEO. A real kool-aid drinker. What he is doing is falling right into the hands of Troy Jackson and Seth Berry who are conspiring to takeover CMP and Versant and turn Maine into a renewable energy plantation to sell wind and solar…"
Jul 29
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Seeking lower prices, Maine PUC changes electric purchase process
"OR, The PUC could recommend the legislators abolish the requirement that suppliers buy renewable energy credits that subsidizes renewables and do away with Maine's inclusion in RGGI. Guaranteed lower prices."
Jul 27
Dudley G. Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post Les Otten: Energy affordability should be at the center of Maine political debates
"I am not surprised that Les Otten omits any mention of Natural Gas in his comparison of heating costs by product. For myself and my location in a large home deep in the north Maine woods my 1500 gallons of propane @$2.11 gallon for heating, stove…"
Jul 26
Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post Les Otten: Energy affordability should be at the center of Maine political debates
"I would definitely go with Dan McKay's excellent suggestion. P.S. Pellet heaters require electricity in order to function, Mr. Otten.  "
Jul 25
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Les Otten: Energy affordability should be at the center of Maine political debates
"Mr.Otten You say increased demand results in increased kilowatt prices, but Mr.Stoddard of Efficieny Maine, who has probably thrown money gathered from electric customers your way, says more kilowatts lowers the  kilowatt hour rate charged by…"
Jul 25
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine plans major energy storage buildout
"More electricity price increases from this proposal. If all the money spent on battery storage went to expanding natural gas pipelines, electricity as well as heating costs would go down and batteries would be far too expensive and nonsensical to…"
Jul 23
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post For Solar "Farms", etc. FCC approves space mirror to steer sunlight back toward the earth's surface after dark
"Every Network Covered Biden's Big Red Speech but Not Trump on Stolen 2020 Election Where Biden Got 10 Million More Votes Than Before https://revolver.news/2026/07/how-will-abc-and-nbc-explain-this-dam...  "
Jul 18
Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post For Solar "Farms", etc. FCC approves space mirror to steer sunlight back toward the earth's surface after dark
"We used to start fires that way using the sun and a magnifying glass.  Just imagine the possibilities!"
Jul 17
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post For Solar "Farms", etc. FCC approves space mirror to steer sunlight back toward the earth's surface after dark
"Can't happen in Maine. LUPC declares it is "Light Pollution'"
Jul 17
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post When having only one wind pusher U.S. Senator from Maine is just not enough
"Looks like Pocahontas wants to get raped by her kind of “man”"
Jul 10
Frank Haggerty commented on Long Islander's blog post When having only one wind pusher U.S. Senator from Maine is just not enough
"Senator Elizabeth Warren: "Platner is my kind of man" Graham Platner: 'I have no right to give up' USMC?"
Jul 7
Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post What does a changing climate mean for central Maine? We asked an expert
"Warming is actually normal when you're coming out of an ice age."
Jul 7
Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post When having only one wind pusher U.S. Senator from Maine is just not enough
"Oh no.  Please, no."
Jul 7
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post When having only one wind pusher U.S. Senator from Maine is just not enough
"Maine needs another Democrat in the Senate like a hole in the head."
Jul 7

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Yale survey indicates Mainers losing interest in climate change

Despite billions in brainwashing.....................

"Fewer than half of people, however, said they have felt the effects of climate change or believe it will harm them personally."…

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Posted on August 1, 2026 at 4:34pm — 1 Comment

ALERT: New CMP power line selected as 'preferred' solution to improve regional power flows

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published July 28, 2026 at 4:15 PM EDT

Electric grid operator ISO-New England is recommending the region select a $2.2 billion transmission line proposed by Central Maine Power to improve power flows in the region.

ISO-NE presented its "preliminary preferred solution" to a planning advisory committee Tuesday. The project is a response to a request for proposals issued by New England states as part of a regional long-term transmission…

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Posted on July 29, 2026 at 9:37am — 2 Comments

Online Public Survey: LUPC Seeking Input on Comprehensive Land Use Plan Update

Get involved with the CLUP Update by taking the CLUP Pre-Process Survey! Available from July to September 2026.

The survey should take about 10 to 15 minutes to complete and contains questions in the form of multiple choice, ranking, short answer, and other formats.…

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Posted on July 29, 2026 at 9:14am

Seeking lower prices, Maine PUC changes electric purchase process

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published July 27, 2026 at 7:12 AM EDT

The Maine Public Utilities Commission is changing the way it procures electricity for Maine's largest electric utilities in an effort to hedge against price spikes in volatile energy markets.

For years, the commission has taken one day late in the year to select an electricity supplier to provide annual "standard offer" fixed price power through a competitive bidding process.

But this…

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Posted on July 27, 2026 at 12:39pm — 1 Comment

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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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