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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Trump has targeted EV charger funding. It leaves $4M for Maine in doubt.
"The dismantling of the Green New Scam. Strip the GEO and/or the Energy Resource Department from the proposed state budget. They have survived on federal money promoting EVs and offshore wind. "
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Bill proposed to block Sears Island wind port
"The Dysfunctional State of Maine?The over-taxed, over-regulated, already-impoverished Maine people are super-screwed, trying to make ends meet in a near-zero, real growth Maine economyThe Maine economy has lots of low-tech/low-pay/low-benefit, bs…"
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Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post Former Maine lawmaker (Chris O'Neil's daughter) with leukemia needs a bone marrow donor
"Sending thoughts and prayers for Maggie.  Wish I were young enough to sign up to donate."
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Richard McDonald/Saving Maine commented on Long Islander's blog post Former Maine lawmaker (Chris O'Neil's daughter) with leukemia needs a bone marrow donor
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Massive solar farm proposal alarms tiny Aroostook town (Hersey)
"NEW ENGLAND ELECTRICITY 100% FROM WIND AND SOLAR by 2050?New England would need a minimum of 10 TWh of DELIVERABLE electricity from batteries to the HV grid Daily W/S output would be fed to the batteries, 140 TWh/y Daily demand would be drawn from…"
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Bill proposed to block Sears Island wind port
"Senators SCARED of 9/11 Truth!!! The Washington, D.C., establishment is nervous – and for good reason! Trump cabinet nominees have been confronted in their confirmation hearings about their refusal to condemn anyone who expresses even the…"
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Bill proposed to block Sears Island wind port
"Elon Deals the Most Devastating Blow Yet Against the Bureaucratic Deep State One Day After Gaining Access to the State Department’s Payment System, Discovers Hundreds of Billions in Fraud…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Bill proposed to block Sears Island wind port
"Another nail in the coffin for immensely unpopular investments of land and waters for wind development, not to mention the costs to ratepayers. Ms. Paul has our backs, we must reciprocate."
Feb 2
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine Republican legislators write Trump asking for further action to stop offshore wind
"High Costs/kWh of Offshore Wind Foisted onto a Brainwashed Public   The three main subsidies are: Federal and state tax credits and cash grants,5-y Accelerated Depreciation write off of the entire projectDeduction of interest of borrowed…"
Feb 2
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Massive solar farm proposal alarms tiny Aroostook town (Hersey)
"High Costs/kWh of Offshore Wind Foisted onto a Brainwashed Public   The three main subsidies are: Federal and state tax credits and cash grants,5-y Accelerated Depreciation write off of the entire projectDeduction of interest of borrowed…"
Feb 2
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Massive solar farm proposal alarms tiny Aroostook town (Hersey)
"TOWN OF HERSEYORDINANCES The Town of Hersey has a commercial/industrial mining ordinance as well as moratorium on large scale solar energy systems."
Feb 1
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Massive solar farm proposal alarms tiny Aroostook town (Hersey)
"Hersey is an organized town. They should immediately place a moratorium on solar and wind projects. This project is huge and dangerous "
Feb 1
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Massive solar farm proposal alarms tiny Aroostook town (Hersey)
Feb 1
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Massive solar farm proposal alarms tiny Aroostook town (Hersey)
"In an article for the Bangor Daily News (BDN), Dave Fowler, president and owner of Next Phase referred to the potential farm as a “2020 project.” Fowler is a former senior land developer for First Wind, the company that…"
Feb 1
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Massive solar farm proposal alarms tiny Aroostook town (Hersey)
"500-acre solar farm planned for eastern Hancock County By Jennifer Osborn   Aug 15, 2018   Environment Facebook Twitter Email Print Save ELLSWORTH — A Casco-based energy project developer proposes the…"
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arthur qwenk commented on Long Islander's blog post Massive solar farm proposal alarms tiny Aroostook town (Hersey)
"Find out the Selectmen and town officials who are on the take, graft money, from the company  and expose them in public.This is all about  graft  all small rural town abuse. Organize, cut local ordinances to prohibit  the project…"
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Trump has targeted EV charger funding. It leaves $4M for Maine in doubt.

In all, a $5 billion program to build chargers on highways nationwide was halted by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

February 8, 2025

Stephen Singer

Portland Press Herald

The Trump administration is rescinding federal funding to build electric vehicle chargers, leaving in doubt $4 million for Maine to build out a network, though a larger sum from Washington is unaffected, a spokesman for the state Department of Transportation said Friday.

Federal…

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Posted on February 9, 2025 at 5:30am — 1 Comment

Former Maine lawmaker (Chris O'Neil's daughter) with leukemia needs a bone marrow donor

Former Maine lawmaker with leukemia needs a bone marrow donor

by Billy Kobin

February 3, 2025

Former state Rep. Maggie O'Neil, D-Saco, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in December 2024 and is seeking a bone marrow donor. Credit:…

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Posted on February 5, 2025 at 11:14pm — 2 Comments

Bill proposed to block Sears Island wind port

What about onshore wind?

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published January 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM EST

State Rep. Reagan Paul, a Republican from Winterport, has proposed legislation that would prevent the state from building a planned facility on Sears Island to support a nascent offshore Gulf of Maine ocean wind power industry.

The measure was floated as President Donald Trump froze further ocean…

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Posted on February 2, 2025 at 1:30pm — 4 Comments

Massive solar farm proposal alarms tiny Aroostook town (Hersey)

by Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli January 31, 2025

 

PATTEN, Maine — A solar developer faced community blowback during an informational session this week on a proposed 5,000-acre solar farm in the tiny northern Maine town of Hersey.

“Just tell me now if this is something you want,” said Next Phase Energy Services President Dave Fowler during the meeting with Hersey residents.

They responded that they…

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Posted on January 31, 2025 at 8:18pm — 8 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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