In the long run, the slow degradation of Maine’s vivid and distinctive quality of place (and the reputation it supports) may be the greatest cost to Maine of all.

   - from "Charting Maine's Future, An Action Plan for…

More bad news for SUNE and investors...most of us forecasted this reality...

Analysts at Credit Suisse explain how mounting liquidity fears led to the drop in SunEdison stock on Tuesday

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SunEdison Inc. stock (NYSE:SUNE) has been highly volatile over the past six months. It slid down from $31 in July, to as low as $2.36 last week. On Tuesday, the stock fell another 10%. Other solar losers on…

Maine Senate president aims to cap electric rates

Though the cap rate is kinda high at 10 cents per kwh, it is a start!  Now if they can just get the subsidies reduced so the windies can't make any money, we will be rid of the scam artists defacing our mountaintops with industrial machinery.  Let's get to our legislators and push the vote for LD 1339.  …

   What to do with 613 megawatts of wind energy when the load demand within Maine is between 1000 to 1400 megawatts at any given time ?

The way the wind blows in New Hampshire  

Fred Ward, an MIT trained PhD from MIT, discusses why wind power in New Hampshire will not work.  The same arguments pertain to Maine, Vermont and anywhere else wind towers would be built.  It is all so simply scientific and factual.  Why can't…

UPDATE at 3PM: I just received a note advising that LD 1339 will not be discussed today and that a replacement date has not yet been announced. Please advise if you hear a date/other information.

A seemingly important Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee work session, with potential Wind implications is scheduled for today, 1/19/16 at 2:00PM according to the Bangor Daily News:

"An effort to cap…

My testimony to the EUT committee on LD 1315

At the EUT Public Hearing on 1/14/16 on LD 1513, during testimony by Ben Smith, Skelton, Taintor & Abbott counsel representing Houlton Water Company, EUT member Representative Larry Dunphy asked Mr. Smith, in essence, if the MPRP ($1.4 BILLION CMP transmission line upgrade) was built in anticipation of moving electrons…

I was just browsing the draft minutes of BEP's Dec 10th meeting (I know... I need to get a life!). Two items caught my eye:

First, the Board asked Assistant A.G. Peggy Bensinger to give a presentation on the Law Court decision upholding BEP's denial of the Bowers appeal. It was AAG Bensinger who represented the BEP before the Court.

Second, I found it heartening to see that the Board voted unanimously to include in its annual report to the legislature a discussion of the Bowers…

Just stumbled across this op-ed from the president of Audubon in Huffington Post.  Part of a membership drive promoting wind power.  Hypocricy at its worst.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-yarnold/why-each-of-us-can-make-a_b_8922224.html

Happening now, transforming, if not transmogrifying Maine, is an explosion in transmission lines the state over. They are funded by ratepayers and the biggest of them all "the CMP Upgrade" or Maine Power Reliability Project was sold to us under false pretense by Iberdrola and the Baldacci administration as being based on a need for reliability due to "aging…

Sing along all...................to "My Fair Ladies hit song",  The Rain in Spain!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVmU3iANbgk

"The rains of  Spain stink mainly in that Maine"

After awhile, is there no shame in Maine?

Baldacci is Sucking on the Wind Teat Again!

Whether it be a  King, a Baldacci or a Hinck, 

Wind Power in Maine gives the state a…

Federally imposed renewables come at a cost

Though the EPA tries to spin the advantages of renewables and the dubious fact that it will be cheaper for the consumer, this author exposes the real truth about what this CO2 bill means for us. …