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This photo was taken from a clearcut on one of the ridges where First Wind proposes a huge wind project in Molunkus, Medway, and T1 R5.  It will include the largest turbines yet used in Maine, the Vestas V117 3.3MW that is more than 500 ft tall from base to blade apex.  This site is about 15 air miles from the boundary of Baxter State Park and less than 5 miles from high value Salmon Stream Pond and Molunkus Lake.  Below the photo is my testimony to the EUT Committee.…

Thank you all for amazing testimony today!! What an incredibly long day but this may be what turns the tide!!  I submitted testimony via email and only heard from one individual - Senator Cleveland!!

Proposed Maine law change seeks balance between ‘No Turbine Zone’ and ‘a walk through a wind farm’

State regulators plan Tuesday vote on terms of UMaine’s offshore wind energy pilot project

Philip Conkling has nicely penned another pro-wind piece, but he omits the carbon debt that must be tallied before any serious discussion of environmental benefits of wind turbines can begin. The turbines do not begin on a mountain or in the ocean. Their roots are in the rare earth mines of Baiyun Obo in China.

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The Maine Public Utilities Commission is poised to vote Tuesday on whether to grant initial approval for a state contract to UMaine and its partner companies to build a two-turbine pilot project off the coast of Monhegan Island.

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“We need to start reaping the benefits of offshore wind, both the economic benefits and renewable benefits,” said Sean Mahoney, executive vice president of the Conservation Law Foundation, who criticized the…

The Post’s View

Clean energy should do without special tax breaks

Is this Global Warming???

The climate alarmists are telling us that climate change is not dependent on one or two special storms or one or two seasons that don’t fit the norm, yet every time there is a special storm, it just further proves Climate Change is going on. When the weather people run through all the letters of the alphabet naming hurricanes they say “See, this proves Global Warming!” When they only use a few names, again they say “See.” I’m still not sure how they can have it…

UPC FIRST WIND PREDATORS ON THE PROWL

As related in ‘Lloyds of London calls First Wind Management Incompetent’, First…

A Reminder:

Monday, January 13, 2014 @10 am…

Which way the wind blows…

Maine Aqua Ventus Wind Project: Is It Right for Bristol?

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In response to the Jan. 7 letter by Scott Cuddy of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers , the state is not stalling the Bowers Mountain wind project. The project had already been denied by the Land Use Regulation Commission, now the Land Use Planning Commission,in April 2012.

Champlain Wind…

Critical weaknesses in the Northeastern U.S. natural gas system

The volatility shows that nearly a decade into a drilling boom that has flooded much of the country with gas, a lack of pipelines has left some areas vulnerable to shortages this year and potentially for years to come.

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Clifton wind farm partners appeal to Supreme Court in effort to resume Pisgah Mountain project

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CLIFTON, Maine — Developers of the proposed $25 million wind farm on Pisgah Mountain have filed an appeal to the state’s highest court to overturn a Maine Business and Consumer Court judge’s determination in December that the Clifton Planning Board erred in approving the five-turbine project.

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Power outages aren’t acts of nature: The lines should be underground

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What is truly shameful is the complicity of inaction by the Maine Public Utilities Commission. Its mandate needs serious correction.

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