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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine Public: "Climate-polluting oil generators are often used as backup in periods of intense demand."
""This is an unusually high oil burn period," Dan Dolan.  Maybe, but you had better get used to it, because the more wind, solar and battery storage added to the grid, the more oil that will be stored and burnt to backstop the…"
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"The extreme, leftist Portland Press Herald is behind an onerous paywall. It usually puts out the government/ industry PR talking points of wind and solar that woke, leftist, Democrat bureaucrats and self-serving Democrat and RINO Politicians repeat…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Navigate to Maine PUC comment box in less than 30 seconds (Aroostook Wind Monstrosity & Transmission, etc.)
"Thanks, Long Islander. I am sure once the covered up Aroostook Wind Project is brought into the sunlight, people will send the PUC a piece of their minds."
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Press Herald columnist criticizes the growing success of the Maine Wire
"Poor confused PPH writer, it's the Democrats who will have their careers brought to a halt thanks to the online "Maine Wire" and the " Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power- Maine""
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Richard McDonald/Saving Maine commented on Long Islander's blog post ALERT: Important EUT Hearing 1PM Today Jan 20 - LD 838 titled “An Act to Establish the Maine Clean Energy Authority"
"More of the same tactics --  the emminent domain fake study/legislation and the codification of the Aroostook project in legislation  - they're walling out the public from any attempt at oversight - the NECEC battle comes to mind -…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Trying to slip one by - Maine lawmakers consider public funding for electric infrastructure
"Captive Legislator Lawrence, who knows nothing about the economics of energy systems, is just a useful, sloganeering, idiot mouthpiece. He has been fed the Kool Aid PR crap of self-serving bureaucrats and foreign and domestic wealthy elites with…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Trying to slip one by - Maine lawmakers consider public funding for electric infrastructure
"Frump sponsor said his bill wasn't about taking over CMP and Versant, but one wonders why Seth Berry of Our Power was there offering opinions of what should be included in this bill. "
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Trying to slip one by - Maine lawmakers consider public funding for electric infrastructure
"Frump sponsor also said he was agnostic to any generation resource that would flow through these transmission lines proposed with his bill. That is an out and out lie, as he stated further into his testimony that is favorite generation type was…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Trying to slip one by - Maine lawmakers consider public funding for electric infrastructure
"Bait and Switch   The frump sponsor of this bill used the old "bait and switch" from entering it as a "Concept Bill" last year March 4, 2025. This bill had no language with it until January 14, 2026 and a public hearing…"
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"What is going on with private equity investors destroying businesses and institutions will leave only the big boys like WalMart, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, etc, and make it easier to control the population. Remember the masks and social distancing at…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Bill McKibben blames high electricity on not enough renewables (How does he keep a straight face?)
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"long Islander, This project moves along by a collaboration between ISO-NE and the New England States Committee on Electricity (NESCOE) with assistance from Philip Bartlett, who is Maine's representative to NESCOE. The project has…"
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Maine Public: "Climate-polluting oil generators are often used as backup in periods of intense demand."

For whatever reason, they can't help themselves.

"Climate-polluting oil generators are often used as backup in periods of intense demand."

https://www.mainepublic.org/climate/2026-01-26/new-england-turns-to-oil-burning-power-plants-during-cold-snap

Posted on January 27, 2026 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

Press Herald columnist criticizes the growing success of the Maine Wire

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Steve Collins

The persistent slop of the Maine Wire is paying off

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Led by Steve Robinson, who presents himself as a hotshot investigative reporter, the site’s influence is growing quickly — to the detriment of political discourse in a state once known for its civility and equanimity.

Today’s conservative candidates tend to kowtow to Robinson, who recently…

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Posted on January 22, 2026 at 6:36pm — 2 Comments

Navigate to Maine PUC comment box in less than 30 seconds (Aroostook Wind Monstrosity & Transmission, etc.)

The case # below is specific to  2025-00361, which as described by Dan McKay, is "the Aroostook County Renewable Energy Development Program presented and packaged as an innocuous, unimportant, and another boring PUC solicitation"  (They hope you don't find out about it. This is described here …

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Posted on January 22, 2026 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Trying to slip one by - Maine lawmakers consider public funding for electric infrastructure

All for a ripoff unneeded Aroostook wind project to enrich Wall Street fat cats and the small group that ran First Wind (Just put First Wind into the search box if you are new. Also put in Sun Edison). And although all we hear about is the big potential Aroostook project, if that transmission line is built, it will open up numerous new possibilities for other wind projects along the way. This only happens in…
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Posted on January 20, 2026 at 7:00pm — 6 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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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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