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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post IMPORTANT READ - What Environmental Policies Can Mainers Expect from State Gov’t in the Coming Years?
"Maine Climate Council is about reducing CO2. But CO2 is near its lowest level in 600 million years. During these years temp never correlated with CO2 More CO2 ppm is better for increased flora and fauna Net zero is a super expensive, unaffordable…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post IMPORTANT READ - What Environmental Policies Can Mainers Expect from State Gov’t in the Coming Years?
"It will end as soon as the subsidies evaporate"
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Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post IMPORTANT READ - What Environmental Policies Can Mainers Expect from State Gov’t in the Coming Years?
"The insanity never ends."
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Clock is ticking for CMP to protect land for power corridor approval
"I'll take the power. The forest society can sit on it."
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine sues energy companies, saying they failed to warn about climate change
"Maine suing energy companies is pure money grabbing and harassment and desperation  Maine is emulating dysfunctional California, etc. Maine woke, leftist, Socialist, illegal-alien coddler, bureaucrats see federal wind/solar subsidies…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine sues energy companies, saying they failed to warn about climate change
"In 2023, 82.5% of world energy consumption came from coal, oil, and gas, with the rest from hydro, tree burning, nuclear, and some highly subsidized, very expensive, but grid disturbing wind and solar, that could not exist on the grid without fossil…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine sues energy companies, saying they failed to warn about climate change
"Just what does this nut think he is going to accomplish? We need to get the grownups back into the justice department."
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arthur qwenk commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine sues energy companies, saying they failed to warn about climate change
"Lawfare against oil in Maine. How non-creative!  The left wing green  disease grows more every week in Maine. A diseased state, just like California."
Nov 27
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post PPH - New England states’ renewable energy push blasted as too costly by free-market advocates
"Here is AI responding to the search " Current C02 ppm levels": As of the most recent data, the current CO2 level in the atmosphere is around 422 parts per million (ppm) The increase between 2022 and 2023 was 2.8…"
Nov 22
arthur qwenk commented on Long Islander's blog post Tux Turkel: Maine’s electric vehicle goals won’t take us where we want to go (The Maine Monitor)
"Musk will be creating an active grid with his batteries and vehicles in certain areas to compete with utilities, and he won't need subsidies to do it. Watch TSLA."
Nov 17
arthur qwenk commented on Long Islander's blog post Tux Turkel: Maine’s electric vehicle goals won’t take us where we want to go (The Maine Monitor)
"EV's are mostly   a narrative based creation  with  too much tax payer money driving their made up globalist narrative on which they are based. That narrative's money is about to be put on a reality based  budget,…"
Nov 17
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Tux Turkel: Maine’s electric vehicle goals won’t take us where we want to go (The Maine Monitor)
"Tux Turkel Tesla founder Elon Musk is bound to get something for his $100 million-plus donation to Trump’s reelection. Bull manure  He is worth $320 BILLION He needs nothing, He wants nothing, He gets no pay for 4 years, while he…"
Nov 17
Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post Trump says Interior pick Burgum will chair new National Energy Council
""He also said his policies would reduce the national deficit and create jobs while preserving landscapes. "Doug Burgum will protect our Nation's Natural Resources, restore our fabulous Oil and Gas advantage, and Make America, and…"
Nov 16
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Avangrid sues NextEra, claiming it sabotaged power corridor through western Maine
"Coastal Maine is Democrat, the rest of Maine is Republican It is long overdue for the Republican part of Maine to declare itself a state, to secede from Coastsl Maine The entire wind and solar travesty imposed on Republican Maine would disappear"
Nov 16
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post PPH - Federal money fuels Maine’s clean energy and climate goals. Could Trump pull the plug?
"Two of the most RINO senators, who can be counted on to obstruct, as much as possible, the Trump team agenda to MAGA."
Nov 14
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post PPH - Federal money fuels Maine’s clean energy and climate goals. Could Trump pull the plug?
"RINO Senators Murkowski and Collins Say They Will Not Vote for Matt Gaetz After Supporting Devil-in-a-Suit Merrick Garland in 2021 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/here-we-go-rino-senators-murkowski-collins-say/"
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IMPORTANT READ - What Environmental Policies Can Mainers Expect from State Gov’t in the Coming Years?

Maine Climate Council Updates “Maine Won’t Wait” Plan



By Libby Palanza

November 26, 2024

The Maine Climate Council has released an updated version of the state’s four-year plan concerning climate change, “Maine Won’t Wait.”

This report outlines the state’s policy goals and objectives over the next few…

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Posted on November 29, 2024 at 9:58am — 3 Comments

Clock is ticking for CMP to protect land for power corridor approval

11/28/24

by Murray Carpenter, Special to the BDN

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When Maine regulators first approved the New England Clean Energy Connect corridor that will carry hydropower from Quebec into Massachusetts, conservationists won a key concession from the project.

The developers were required to permanently conserve 50,000 acres in the area of the corridor, which will go through western Maine. That’s an area larger than Acadia National Park, and more…

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Posted on November 28, 2024 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Maine sues energy companies, saying they failed to warn about climate change

Attorney General Aaron Frey said he intends to hold the companies accountable for concealing knowledge about the consequences of fossil fuels.

Posted November 26, 2024

Stephen Singer

Portland Press Herald

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Maine on Tuesday sued several big players in the energy industry over accusations they developed fossil fuel products despite knowing about the damage to the climate caused by…

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Posted on November 27, 2024 at 8:49am — 4 Comments

PPH - New England states’ renewable energy push blasted as too costly by free-market advocates

New England states’ renewable energy push blasted as too costly by free-market advocates

Clean energy supporters and environmentalists pushed back, calling the conservative groups' conclusions inaccurate and misleading.

Posted November 20

Stephen Singer

Portland Press Herald

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Conservative think tanks in New England are taking aim at state…

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Posted on November 20, 2024 at 11:30pm — 1 Comment

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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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