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Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine electric ratepayers could get refunds for 15 years of overpaying for power transmission
"And still they push for more transmission lines to hook up the industrial wind sites planned for northern Maine.  When will this fraudulent energy scam be exposed for what it truly is?"
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Dudley G. Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine electric ratepayers could get refunds for 15 years of overpaying for power transmission
"If Maine ratepayers have been overcharged for 15 years, just where was our so-called Public Advocate?"
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Stephen Littlefield commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine electric ratepayers could get refunds for 15 years of overpaying for power transmission
"As always the government entity points the finger at the distributor companies rather than at the scammer companies that are charging 2, 3, as much as 4 times as much as Nat Gas or Hydro! The great scam has wasted billions that could have built a…"
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Dudley G. Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine electric ratepayers could get refunds for 15 years of overpaying for power transmission
"The office of Public Advocacy needs to be eliminated. It has done nothing for Maine Ratepayers except blame Nat Gas prices for the KWH rate increases, which is patently false. DGG"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine electric ratepayers could get refunds for 15 years of overpaying for power transmission
"So, a regulartory agency(FERC) can retroactivate and lower rates of returns and make companies rebate customers. Why the hell isn't the PUC, a regulatory agency, examining the rates of returns received from net energy billing companies, power…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine passes law to prioritize affordable electric rates
"This law is a lot of baloney. If you expect a Maine PUC led by a climitard democrat that has had a hand in developing contracts with wind and solar developers that have cost Maine ratepayers $66 million dollars since 2018, you are ready to buy a…"
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine passes law to prioritize affordable electric rates
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Half A Million Balsa Trees Illegally Logged In Amazon Rainforest Every Year To Feed Global Wind Turbine Demand
"Janet Mills — Now Eyeing Senate — Laughs It Off When Confronted Over Her Lies About Biden’s Mental Decline https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/shameless-far-left-maine-gov-janet-mills-now/"
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Half A Million Balsa Trees Illegally Logged In Amazon Rainforest Every Year To Feed Global Wind Turbine Demand
"White House AI Framework Pushes Age Verification ID Mandate The only tools platforms have are identity-based checks, government IDs, biometric scans, credit card data, and third-party verification services, or biometric…"
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Portland neighbors, activists raise alarm with plan for gas power plant
""There will be no more gaming the system" - Oz Reacts to Latest MaineCare Fraud Scandal https://robinsonreport.substack.com/p/there-will-be-no-more-gaming-the"
Mar 23
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Portland neighbors, activists raise alarm with plan for gas power plant
"What a damned nuisance to sign in everyday!!! Someone is screwing around, because it was never that way Steve, Your numbers are way off The Utility-grade battery systems last only 15 years AT MOST Solar at most 25 years Wind at most 20…"
Mar 19
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Portland neighbors, activists raise alarm with plan for gas power plant
"With proper silencers the noise from the plant will be greatly reduced to much less than a lawnmower or snow blower."
Mar 18
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Portland neighbors, activists raise alarm with plan for gas power plant
"First of all, there are no laws in federal regulations that consider carbon dioxide gas, whether naturally occurring or a product of human activity, to be dangerous. State and/or municipal regulation of carbon dioxide is based on a prior EPA…"
Mar 18
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Portland neighbors, activists raise alarm with plan for gas power plant
"More CO2 ppm is an essential gas for growing more flora and fauna, reduce desert areas, such as the Sahara, and increase crop yields per acre to better feed 8 billion people. All that is very good for the environment No CO2 no green…"
Mar 18
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Energy Department Announces $1.9 Billion for Projects Strengthening Power Grid
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Mar 16
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Two reports, two energy visions for Maine (The Maine Monitor)
"THE IMPOVERISHED, DYSFUNCTIONAL STATE OF MAINE https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-dysfunctional-state-of-maine By Willem Post. The over-taxed, over-regulated, already-impoverished Maine people are super-screwed, trying to make ends…"
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Maine electric ratepayers could get refunds for 15 years of overpaying for power transmission

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published March 30, 2026 at 7:03 PM EDT

New England electric customers including Maine ratepayers could get more than $1 billion in refunds after federal energy regulators ruled this month that transmission utilities were paid inflated profits for years.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission draws to a close a case against the utilities that was first filed in 2011, said Maine Public Advocate Heather Sanborn.…

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Posted on March 31, 2026 at 8:51am — 5 Comments

Maine passes law to prioritize affordable electric rates

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published March 24, 2026 at 2:52 PM EDT

A new Maine law will require state utility regulators to focus on lowering consumer energy costs.

"An Act Regarding Energy Fairness" comes at a time when Maine households are struggling with high electric bills.

The…

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Posted on March 25, 2026 at 6:30am — 2 Comments

Trump takes aim at windmills

NPR | By Tamara Keith

Published March 24, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT

The high cost of power bills is shaping up to be a political issue in this year's midterm elections. But when it comes to generating electricity,…

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Posted on March 24, 2026 at 6:00am

Half A Million Balsa Trees Illegally Logged In Amazon Rainforest Every Year To Feed Global Wind Turbine Demand

Over half a million balsa hardwood trees are being illegally logged in the Amazon rainforest every year to feed the massive demand for wind turbines in many parts of the world. Balsa is a lightweight but strong wood that is commonly used in the core of giant turbine blades. It can make up around 7% of the blade and each set of three can use up to 40 trees.

Given what is known about annual balsa production, the scale of illegal logging and the demands of wind…

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Posted on March 23, 2026 at 11:18am — 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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