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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine treads lightly amid AI data center expansion
"Wherever they build out AI, the fact that AI will have the ability to process complex scientific formulae enables it to reveal the real answer to the question of the effects of atmospheric carbon dioxide which will kill off the current dumb…"
19 hours ago
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Environmental Groups Urge Congress to Ban Data Centers
"Chris Wright of the Department of Energy asked about AI and climate activists: Climate activists lament the fact that big corporations are quietly walking back their net-zero goals. Does that concern you? No. I think the public has a very…"
19 hours ago
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine regulators to contract for solar power
"Why are we partnering with Connecticut or any state in Southern New England?  They have cut off natural gas supplies Maine is entitled to.  Why do we remain in a regional network that gobbles up Maine land for useless purposes. "
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Lewiston says ‘no’ to proposed AI data and technology center for Bates Mill
"Mike Benz proves CNN was in on the 2020 election steal coverup… What was once taboo to even discuss is now being examined openly by analysts, journalists, and national security experts. And one of the most detailed explanations of how the…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Regulators expand Maine's low-income electric program
"This is called "Regulatory Capture" and places the unfortunate people on the list that will allow AI driven algorithms to control their appliances. Part of the Plan. "
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Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post As tax credits expire, how will heat pump costs change in Maine?
"Trump Just Dropped A Nuclear Bomb On The Democratic Party https://www.infowars.com/posts/trump-just-dropped-a-nuclear-bomb-on-the-democratic-party"
Tuesday
Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post As tax credits expire, how will heat pump costs change in Maine?
"The liberals need more money for illegal Somalis that are sucking from all sorts of state and federal programs, so they are letting heat pump subsidies expire. We need more CO2 to grow more flora and more fauna, and reduce desert areas, and…"
Dec 13
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Rising electric bills lead to state scrutiny but little relief for residents
"Well, Philip, enormous pressures need enormous changes to the policies you and the PUC administer. You had better decide whose side you are going to fight for and quickly."
Dec 12
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post As tax credits expire, how will heat pump costs change in Maine?
"Every rebate offer given by Efficiency Maine Trust is money taken from ratepayers. Every additional kilowatt needed to run these heat pumps raises the price of electricity because all the policies enacted by the state government puts pressure on a…"
Dec 12
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Rising electric bills lead to state scrutiny but little relief for residents
"Blue State Governors Are Refusing To Implement Trump's 'No Tax On Tips' https://www.zerohedge.com/political/blue-state-governors-are-refusing-implement-trumps-no-tax-tips"
Dec 12
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post As tax credits expire, how will heat pump costs change in Maine?
"Blue State Governors Are Refusing To Implement Trump's 'No Tax On Tips' https://www.zerohedge.com/political/blue-state-governors-are-refusing-implement-trumps-no-tax-tips"
Dec 12
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post CMP plans major grid overhaul in greater Portland
"Stick a gigantic lithium battery on Congress Street and let them feel what is like using the government's selected power of last resort. Place bicycles with generating capacity next to the battery so Portland people can peddle charge…"
Dec 11
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine AG praises ruling declaring Trump’s offshore wind halt unlawful
"Or, as Obama said about coal plants, you can build them(wind plants), but you will go bankrupt doing so. If you think any American is willing to provide government bailouts for these miserable ventures, think again. "
Dec 11
Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine AG praises ruling declaring Trump’s offshore wind halt unlawful
"Well, who cares about Maine's fishery or the whales and marine ecology when we have the opportunity (unproven of course) to power gazillions of homes on this cheap floating energy?"
Dec 10
Stephen Littlefield commented on Long Islander's blog post Tell us about Marcellus NRCM
"The NRCM is one of the largest frauds pushing the fake 'green' energy scam! Every thing that comes out of them is a lie pushing for more taxpayer money to continue the scam! It's cost the taxpayers of Maine billions so far to have the…"
Dec 6
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Tell us about Marcellus NRCM
"MassachusettsElectricity Costs:The Real Sourceof the ProblemA Data-Driven Explanation forRatepayers and Legislators by Lisa Linowes "Massachusetts residents served byEversource (NSTAR) and National Grid havewatched their electric bills rise…"
Dec 6

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Environmental groups challenge CMP power line conservation plan

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published December 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM EST

A coalition of environmental groups is challenging a conservation plan proposed by Central Maine Power as part of its permit to develop a new electric transmission line through western Maine.

The groups filed an appeal with Maine's Board of Environmental Protection asking regulators to require CMP to protect more mature forest habitat.

"The transmission line…

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Posted on December 20, 2025 at 6:08pm

Maine treads lightly amid AI data center expansion

Whether data centers drive up electricity prices or not, the fact is that Maine starts off with very high prices due to costly "renewable" energy and its requisite new transmission, as well as being choked off from badly needed new gas pipelines. Therefore if data centers (and any jobs they might provide) can't be built in Maine due to their potential effect on electricity prices, or the fact that electricity is too expensive here to begin with, those persons, politicians and groups pushing…

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Posted on December 19, 2025 at 8:15pm — 1 Comment

Environmental Groups Urge Congress to Ban Data Centers

By Steve Goreham -- December 17, 2025

“Environmental groups fear the AI tidal wave will wash away the net zero energy transition…. The end result will be a victory for AI and common sense, and the failure of renewable energy and the ideology of Climatism, the fear of human-caused global warming.”

Environmental groups seek to halt data center construction in the…

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Posted on December 19, 2025 at 7:38pm — 1 Comment

Maine regulators to contract for solar power

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published December 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM EST

Maine regulators have agreed to contract with new solar farms to deliver 51 megawatts of electricity to customers in the state.

The Maine Public Utilities Commission said the new generation could power about 13,000 homes.

Maine…

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Posted on December 19, 2025 at 5:30am — 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

******** 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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