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Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post Versant Power raps Aroostook wind transmission line it says adds costs, not benefits, for many customers
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Versant Power raps Aroostook wind transmission line it says adds costs, not benefits, for many customers
"Our overseer of matters involving the lowly ratepayers deems we are not caring enough about our lands, our budgets and our security to know any of the details of this project. LS Power remains protected from the eyes of the public. We will…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Versant Power raps Aroostook wind transmission line it says adds costs, not benefits, for many customers
"ISO-NE socializes reliability projects amongst the six states, such that a transmission project deemed to be necessary for the stability of the grid shares its costs among the six states based on relative consumption of electricity for each state.…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine PUC didn't get the memo on the public's rejection of EV's
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine PUC didn't get the memo on the public's rejection of EV's
"Here are the projects totaling 968 Nameplate Megawatts selected by the PUC:"
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arthur qwenk commented on Long Islander's blog post Aroostook Transmission Line - Freedom Planning Board Chair: "I HOPE THIS PROJECT SUCCEEDS"
"Many  supporters are indeed sick, brainwashed, beyond redemption nor the ability to perceive the reality. There Is No Climate Emergency of Course, and they are the useful idiots of the global elites who suck on the others. They unfortunately…"
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Stephen Littlefield commented on Long Islander's blog post Aroostook Transmission Line - Freedom Planning Board Chair: "I HOPE THIS PROJECT SUCCEEDS"
"Sounds like Freedom needs a new chair, almost seems like the existing chair has something to gain from it."
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Wind developer to start erecting turbines in western Washington County
"Thirty 4 MW wind turbines = 126 MW 126 MW for $188 million, or about $1500/ installed kW is extremely low. Dan McKay writes it is a 90 MW project, or about $2000/installed kW, which appears much more realistic Does that include cabling to a…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Aroostook Transmission Line - Freedom Planning Board Chair: "I HOPE THIS PROJECT SUCCEEDS"
"Well, Mr. Freedom Planning Board Chairman. consider these "small" issues that require approvals before this thing happens. As the PUC stated in the Request for Proposals: .2.2 Required Approvals and Related Obligations  A. Approvals…"
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Documents reveal NextEra’s hidden efforts to oppose NECEC transmission line corridor
"It’s time to legally and lawfully take over the system and begin Nuremberg 2.0 if there’s any hope of saving America and possibly even humanity. https://www.infowars.com/posts/alex-jones-hang-em-high/"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Wind developer to start erecting turbines in western Washington County
"December 18, 2013                           MAINE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSON  Docket No. 2012-00504 Through this Order, we direct one or more of Maine’s investor-owned…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine regulators try to resolve stalled transmission line talks
"Unaccountable bureaucrats plotting to either destroy any chance pf Maine controlling Maine's grid or running LS Power out of the state and returning to energy sanity.  What's it going to be, PUC?"
Nov 29
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine regulators try to resolve stalled transmission line talks
"" The commission’s decision to proceed came after Massachusetts agreed to pay for 40 percent of the project." If the table above is accurate, Massachusetts consumes 4.4 times as much electricity as Maine. Said another way, of…"
Nov 28
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post The 5 biggest hurdles to offshore wind in Maine
"Floating Offshore Wind Systems in the Impoverished State of Maine https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/floating-offshore-wind-systems-in-the-impoverished-state-of-maine Offshore Wind Capacity Placed on Operation in 2021 World: During 2021,…"
Nov 27
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post The 5 biggest hurdles to offshore wind in Maine
"Lot of Crappola in this article World's Largest Offshore Wind System Developer Abandons Two Major US Projects as Wind Bust…"
Nov 27
Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post Aroostook power corridor faces opposition from landowners
"Troy Jackson hasn't changed either.  I hope you're right, Dan, and  I hope these landowners continue to fight for their land.  We are the stewards of one of the most beautiful states in the nation. Farms and forests are…"
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Versant Power raps Aroostook wind transmission line it says adds costs, not benefits, for many customers

December 4, 2023

The proposed Aroostook Renewable Gateway would connect power from a wind farm to the New England grid, but the project has faced many obstacles as its seeks regulatory approval.

BY STEPHEN SINGER STAFF WRITER

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Versant Power customers in northern Maine will not benefit from a transmission line connecting wind power generated there to the New England…

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Posted on December 4, 2023 at 10:39pm — 3 Comments

Moscow residents approve ban on commercial solar farms

December 1, 2023

BY JAKE FREUDBERG MORNING SENTINEL

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MOSCOW — Residents at a special town meeting Thursday voted to prohibit commercial solar farms, opting to go a step further than many other towns in central Maine when it comes to restricting the development of large solar projects.

Moscow joins a growing list of Maine municipalities that have passed measures limiting or temporarily prohibiting solar farms. But it is unclear if…

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Posted on December 4, 2023 at 12:44pm

Maine PUC didn't get the memo on the public's rejection of EV's

December 3, 2023

Commentary: PUC will do a rigorous job with the public’s help



BY PHILIP L. BARTLETT, PATRICK SCULLY AND CAROLYN GILBERT

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.......To help reach Maine’s climate goals, we conducted two large-scale renewable energy procurements for more than 950 megawatts of power; approved new electric rate designs to support…

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Posted on December 3, 2023 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments

Wind developer to start erecting turbines in western Washington County

December 1, 2023

by Bill Trotter

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..........Downeast Wind, a project of Virginia-based Apex Clean Energy, has hired Woolwich-based Reed & Reed as the general contractor of the wind power project, which will include 30 turbine sites spread out among various locations in the town of Columbia and in townships 18 and 24 in the state’s Unorganized Territory.

Twenty of the turbines, each…

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Posted on December 1, 2023 at 11:07am — 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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