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arthur qwenk commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine manufacturers push back against rising electricity bills tied to renewable power incentives
"This is nothing less than a State and Federal Fraud . A subsidized "Renewable Green" scam; an illegal taking from certain businesses ,that is all it can be called. Mainers should be responding to the PUC and this Idiot Governor with…"
Sep 9
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine manufacturers push back against rising electricity bills tied to renewable power incentives
"Contact your legislator and demand regulations that places the subsidizing of net energy billing exclusively and entirely on everyone voting for democrats."
Sep 9
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine manufacturers push back against rising electricity bills tied to renewable power incentives
Sep 9
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post China residents to vote on high-voltage power line ban after citizens’ petition
"New Bombshell - This is Why They Try to Silence RFK Jr https://rumble.com/v5dj8bx-new-bombshell-this-is-why-they-try-to-silence-rfk-jr.html"
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post China residents to vote on high-voltage power line ban after citizens’ petition
"Noor Bin Ladin Warns of NATO’s Cognitive Warfare: “Understanding Their Tactics is Key to Resistance” https://warroom.org/noor-bin-ladin-warns-of-natos-cognitive-warfare-understanding-their-tactics-is-key-to-resistance/"
Sep 8
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post High-stakes pipeline talks could send Maine natural gas prices soaring
"The big story is Massachusetts is attempting to ban natural gas and Massachusetts controls ISO-NE.  Massachusetts Just Took a Big Step Away from Natural Gas. Which States Might Follow? A first-in-the-country ruling sets Massachusetts on a…"
Sep 7
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post High-stakes pipeline talks could send Maine natural gas prices soaring
"Carbon Allowances are a direct tax on natural gas plant production and become a part of production prices in the wholesale market and carry over into retail prices. Notice how these prices per allowance are increasing dramatically. Auctions are held…"
Sep 6
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post High-stakes pipeline talks could send Maine natural gas prices soaring
"Fracking bans are not necessary because natural gas will be banned and/or made extraordinary expensive. The "Dark Ages" are about to return as insanity grows in America"
Sep 6
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post PPH - Is small-scale wind power Maine’s next big thing?
"Before Edison and Tesla, farms used windmills to pump water. Is this where we are going?"
Aug 25
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post New York To Pay $155 Per Megawatt Hour For Wind-Power, Current Rate Is $36 Per MWH
"Berserk"
Aug 25
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post PPH - Is small-scale wind power Maine’s next big thing?
Aug 24
Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post PPH - Is small-scale wind power Maine’s next big thing?
"I would always trust the wind power industry and out of state contractors for accurate predictions of KWH of wind production in any given area, as well as an accurate assessment of costs.  Who wouldn't?  Wind power, saving small Maine…"
Aug 24
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post ISO-NE: Mostly wind and solar resource build out would necessitate 18 times current capacity
"We just had 4 days of overcast, no wind, no sun; rain off and on. No matter how much wind and solar systems you build, if there is no wind and no sun there will be NO POWER FROM THESE SOURCES, just like a car without gasoline. THIS IS NOT ROCKET…"
Aug 24
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine PUC case on stranded costs is scratching at some unpleasant truths that lots of players don’t want scratched.
"The data requested from Tony Buxton, if provided, would reveal the corruption that exists in the green energy  scheme."
Aug 23
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post ISO-NE: Mostly wind and solar resource build out would necessitate 18 times current capacity
"The mucky-mucks of ISO-NE are betraying us and are obviously colluding with Democrat operatives to bring failure to the grid. They definitely are pushing for a  class action lawsuit."
Aug 23
Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post ISO-NE: Mostly wind and solar resource build out would necessitate 18 times current capacity
"Plant trees, the real green energy."
Aug 23

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John Droz, Jr: Media Balance Newsletter: September 16, 2024

Please click on the following link to read the following stories and much, much more:

https://election-integrity.info/Newsletter/2024/Media_Balance_Newsletter-9-16-24.pdf

Offshore wind energy development: A David vs Goliath story

 

Turbine fire burns 260+ acres in California

 

How it ends: 96% of Big Corporations are quietly abandoning their…

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Posted on September 16, 2024 at 11:57pm

Maine manufacturers push back against rising electricity bills tied to renewable power incentives

The powers that be in Augusta are finally talking about the problem they created and now expect us to trust them with getting us out of this mess. That definition of insanity comes to mind.

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One business said it may be forced to close because its power bills have jumped by thousands of dollars.

9/9/24

Stephen Singer

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Posted on September 9, 2024 at 9:30am — 3 Comments

High-stakes pipeline talks could send Maine natural gas prices soaring

by Billy Kobin

September 4, 2024

Three interstate natural gas pipelines serving Maine are seeking rate increases that could lead to higher energy prices in the state.

The pending requests are months away from either getting approved or denied but come as regulators and lawmakers grapple with helping Mainers facing the nation’s 10th highest average electricity prices and newer fees from solar subsidies.

Though Maine’s climate goals seek 80 percent renewable…

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Posted on September 6, 2024 at 7:30am — 3 Comments

China residents to vote on high-voltage power line ban after citizens’ petition

Residents will decide in November whether to enact a temporary ban on constructing high-voltage power lines, nearly a year after a controversial proposed renewable energy project was put on hold.



Posted September 4



Dylan Tusinski

Morning Sentinel

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CHINA — Voters will decide in November whether to adopt a temporary moratorium on new high-voltage power lines within town limits after nearly 250 residents signed a petition in…

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Posted on September 6, 2024 at 7:10am — 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

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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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