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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post UMaine to float wind turbine despite funding suspension (What a joke this is Habib)
"UMO plays with wind while Maine Maritime Academy restores nuclear physics to their curriculum. "
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"Maine subsidies to Renewables Topped $315 million dollars in 2024; all paid by Maine ratepayers."
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine lawmakers seek more coordinated grid planning
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine lawmakers seek more coordinated grid planning
"A Government with members who think they know more about electrical engineering than the utility employees should have no place in Government.  Government interference is the work of the devil. Vote the devil out."
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Tux Turkel: Maine’s clean electricity goals face unpredictable costs, availability
"Turkel, the useful idiot of the left."
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine’s electricity prices grew at the third fastest rate in the country, analysis shows
"When State Governments decide to be the middleman between wholesale and retail electricity prices, it is a safe bet that prices will go up and shortages will prevail, and, then intervention and rationing of electricity is soon to come. It is all in…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine’s electricity prices grew at the third fastest rate in the country, analysis shows
"Maine is trying to beat California down a rathole, with Vermont not far behind, just like the UK electricity price to users, c/kWh, has finally outdone Germany and Denmark, which used to be the leaders of high-priced electricity in Europe."
Apr 28
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Tux Turkel: Maine’s clean electricity goals face unpredictable costs, availability
"Turkel & Co, as usual, are shilling for Maine's Government policies, no matter what they are. Performing their own independent analysis is far beyond their capabilities, so they just parrot the talking points of what state bureaucrats…"
Apr 28
Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post Tux Turkel: Maine’s clean electricity goals face unpredictable costs, availability
"The only thing that'll change Tux's spin would be the onset of the next ice age, and even then he'd probably blame it on global warming."
Apr 27
Richard McDonald/Saving Maine commented on Long Islander's blog post Tux Turkel: Maine’s clean electricity goals face unpredictable costs, availability
"Tux has always been a shill for the renewable scam. Had many chats with him during Saving Maine's successful campaign to defeat industrial wind development in the Moosehead Region. He was always willing to listen, but would never let go of the…"
Apr 27
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Affordable, Reliable, Clean Scorecard: Natural Gas Is Tops, Wind and Solar Are the Worst
Apr 26
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Affordable, Reliable, Clean Scorecard: Natural Gas Is Tops, Wind and Solar Are the Worst
"Time for Pam Bondi to get a move on More than three months have passed since President Trump returned to the Oval Office, and despite bold rhetoric and carefully staged photo ops, neither Bondi nor Patel has delivered anything resembling real…"
Apr 25
arthur qwenk commented on Long Islander's blog post New Maine law directs millions of dollars to climate resilience
"More wasted taxpayer graft directed  money, to be fed to self serving politicians and significant others. Maine is way over the hill now, with its closest competitor to  this insanity being California. Track the politicians that try to dip…"
Apr 23
arthur qwenk commented on Long Islander's blog post USDA cancels $35M climate grant to Freeport demonstration farm
"Harvard has  been a left  wing bigoted organization for much of its recent history. They only should receive funding, under scrutiny from the US govt, for research that benefits all Americans, such as  cancer research,diabetes…"
Apr 23
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post USDA cancels $35M climate grant to Freeport demonstration farm
"Harvard is getting about $2 billion per year, no-strings-attached, from the federal government. Harvard has the right to exercise free speech, to teach, to do research, or practice DEI, or gay rights, or whatever comes to mind. Harvard is suing…"
Apr 22
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post USDA cancels $35M climate grant to Freeport demonstration farm
"This is off-the-charts beautiful. Four deranged, woke democrat house reps, who do not give a damn about their own constituents, went to Al Salvador to visit their favorite criminal they want to bring home and set free, using their own money for…"
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States (including Maine) sue Trump administration for blocking the development of wind energy

May 5, 2025

By The Associated Press

A coalition of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit Monday against President Donald Trump's attempt to stop the development of wind energy.

Attorneys general from 17 states and Washington, D.C., are challenging an executive order Trump signed during his first day in office, pausing approvals, permits and loans for all wind energy projects both onshore and offshore. They say Trump doesn't have the authority to unilaterally…

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Posted on May 7, 2025 at 8:31am — 1 Comment

UMaine to float wind turbine despite funding suspension (What a joke this is Habib)

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire
Published May 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM EDT

The University of Maine plans to launch an experimental floating wind turbine in the next week, less than a…

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Posted on May 7, 2025 at 8:24am — 1 Comment

With new techniques, landowners shape forests for maximum carbon storage

By Jan DeBlieu

May 3, 2025

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Steve Tatko squatted next to the cut end of a red spruce trunk lying in a stack with other felled trees. Eight inches in diameter, its bark was a deep red-brown. Its center held tiny rings of varying widths, pale yellow alternating with a rich sienna. Tatko pointed to some narrow rings only a half inch from the center.

“It’s possible this tree was seventy-five years old when these were formed,” he said. “And see…

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Posted on May 3, 2025 at 9:57am

Angus King, defiler of Roxbury Pond, Tumbledown and Baldpate introduces America the Beautiful Act

“People travel from across the globe to experience the natural beauty of America’s public lands – from Maine to Montana and across the nation................This is an important step forward in creating lasting protections for our public lands and continues to demonstrate that stewardship is not partisan,” said King.…

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Posted on May 1, 2025 at 4:30pm

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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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