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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Environmental groups appeal judge’s approval of construction for controversial power corridor
"That line would serve only one purpose, as a subsidy for Owners of wind and solar systems so they can profit from delivering highly subsidized, expensive, environmentally destructive, intermittent/variable, unreliable wind and solar electricity to…"
May 31
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Environmental groups appeal judge’s approval of construction for controversial power corridor
"Trump should recover all government legal expenses from these loser, environmental groups and make them open their books revealing who donated to them and who they have made donations to."
May 30
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Clean Energy Faces Hard Market Truths
"Dirigo Solar pleads with the EUT Committee to expedite LD 597, a Power Purchase Proposal to be issued by the PUC because of the "Big, Beautiful Bill". Not surprisingly, the Democrats were receptive to keeping the bill as an emergency bill…"
May 24
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Clean Energy Faces Hard Market Truths
"This means we won't be relying on batteries for the electricity of last resort. Hail the age of abundant energy."
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Clean Energy Faces Hard Market Truths
"Isn’t it time for the industry to move out of its parent’s basement? https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/will_clean_energy_ever_grow_up.html"
May 23
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post WIND FAIL - UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center lays off 9 employees after federal funding cuts
"Nothing is mentioned about the practical applications these 400 people have come up with. The federal money, taxpayer dollars, should see value for that money. This looks like perpetual motion machine kept running with federal funds. I think the…"
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arthur qwenk commented on Long Islander's blog post WIND FAIL - UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center lays off 9 employees after federal funding cuts
"A good start to eventual  dissolution   of the subsidized scam of Renewable graft and corruption."
May 16
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine regulators examine impacts of state climate goals on gas utilities
"ISO-NE is very tolerable towards renewables, but they are not going to let any NG plants shut down. Unfortunately, we ratepayers will be paying handsomely for two conflicting markets. "
May 15
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post EPA Is 'Fixing' Start/Stop Tech, Agency Admin Says
"US Treasury Finally Scrutinizing the Making of Payments The Democrats howling, moaning, groaning is about their misdeeds being discovered. All those people that were sucking of the federal-money tit are sucking no more . Democrats are also upset…"
May 13
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post EPA Is 'Fixing' Start/Stop Tech, Agency Admin Says
"The UK, Germany, Spain, France, etc., in Deep Wind/Solar Do-Do The Conservative and Labor elites, using the foghorn of the government-subsidized/controlled Corporate Media, brainwashed the people to vote for them for decades. . Expensive Wind and…"
May 13
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Regulators approve Efficiency Maine’s growth plan, but federal policies cloud future
"The UK, Germany, Spain, etc., in Deep Wind Solar Do-Do The Conservative and Labor elites, using the foghorn of the government-subsidized/controlled Corporate Media, brainwashed the people to vote for them for decades. . Now the people are paying…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Angus King, defiler of Roxbury Pond, Tumbledown and Baldpate introduces America the Beautiful Act
"The UK, Germany, Spain, etc., in Deep Wind Solar Do-Do The Conservative and Labor elites, using the foghorn of the government-subsidized/controlled Corporate Media, brainwashed the people to vote for them for decades. . Now the people are paying…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post UMaine to float wind turbine despite funding suspension (What a joke this is Habib)
"The UK, Germany, Spain, etc., in Deep Wind Solar Do-DoThe Conservative and Labor elites, using the foghorn of the government-subsidized/controlled Corporate Media, brainwashed the people to vote for them for decades..Now the people are paying though…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post States (including Maine) sue Trump administration for blocking the development of wind energy
"The UK, Germany, Spain, etc., in Deep Wind Solar Do-Do The Conservative and Labor elites, using the foghorn of the government-subsidized/controlled Corporate Media, brainwashed the people to vote for them for decades. . Now the people are paying…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post States sue Trump over wind order (on Maine Public)
"The UK, Germany, Spain, etc., in Deep Wind Solar Do-Do The Conservative and Labor elites, using the foghorn of the government-subsidized/controlled Corporate Media, brainwashed the people to vote for them for decades. . Now the people are paying…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post States sue Trump over wind order (on Maine Public)
"President Trump was elected to make America "Full Spectrum Energy Dominant". To the victor go the spoils. Wind becomes an energy failure for the second time in America."
May 10

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Posted on May 30, 2025 at 6:40am — 2 Comments

Clean Energy Faces Hard Market Truths

By Irina Slav - May 21, 2025, 5:00 PM CDT

The Trump administration is rolling back federal subsidies for wind, solar, and EVs.

Over $145 billion in green energy projects and $73 billion in manufacturing investments since 2022 were heavily driven by federal aid



Despite claims of booming growth, wind and solar face serious structural issues, raising doubts about their viability in a true free-market…

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Posted on May 23, 2025 at 8:32pm — 3 Comments

WIND FAIL - UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center lays off 9 employees after federal funding cuts

Eventually you run out of other people's money.

UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center lays off 9 employees after federal funding cuts

Maine Public | By Madi Smith…
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Avangrid to conserve 50,000 acres near Western Maine power corridor

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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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