The “Clean Energy” bill will not be on the November ballot in Maine in 2012 because the required number of signatures could not be mustered. I believe this happened because most Mainer’s have come to realize that this would not have been a “clean energy” bill at all. Maybe it should have been called the “Wind Industry Initiative “bill or the “Clean Energy Hoax” bill. However that may be, it is clear that the “clean energy bill” is a complete and misleading misnomer.

Industrial wind…

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

Please take notice that the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will

hold a public meeting at the Canton Municipal Building, 28 Cross Street, Canton, on

Thursday, March 1, 2012, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

. The purpose of the meeting is to

allow the Department to hear the public’s concerns…

Today, David Farmer said, “We can’t predict the future but we do know that investment in efficiency is most cost effective and that’s for homeowners and business,” Farmer said. “That’s an idea that’s not going away.”

That is right on, David. Good you noticed. Since Industrial turbines have no efficiency whatsoever,…

From March 27, 2009

Mars Hill, ME

MarsHillComplaint_032709_Mar27%2C2009%20-%20Copy.pdf

Emphasis mine

Governor's weekly radio address

Addressing energy and education will create jobs

Spain Halts Renewable Subsidies to Curb $31 Billion of Debts

January 27, 2012, 12:50 PM EST

By Ben Sills

Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Spain halted subsidies for renewable energy projects to help curb its budget deficit and rein in power-system borrowings backed by the state that reached 24 billion euros ($31 billion) at the end of 2011.…

After a month of dealing with the Dell from Hell that refused to enable JavaScript, I can at last say what I have been chomping at the bit to say. WIND TURBINES DO NOT SEQUESTER CO2! Not one molecule! Tell a big lie, tell it soon, repeat it often, louder and louder and some people who have too much to do to just survive will tend to accept the lie. Carbon credits are pure corruption. Using the fossil fuels to mine the special materials, refine them, manufacture them into a turbine, transport…

Wind power is just a scam that lines the pockets of Baldacci cronies like his former Chief of Staff Kurt Adams who took over $ 1million in stock options from his then future employer First Wind while Chairman of the PUC. While there, Adams helped grease the skids for the $1.5 billion CMP transmission upgrade. It was needed solely for Baldacci's wind friends who without…

I have learned a bit more about the FERC website. 

If you go to: http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing-/eqr/data/spreadsheet.asp  you get a webpage that has quarterly/monthly (?) data on power sales by all of the large power plants in the USA, for the past ten years or so.  All large power producers are required to report this information to FERC, and it is public. 

    After selecting a producer (see below),…

Time to redefine green jobs in community context

   …

On a visit to the UMPI campus today (Jan. 22) the turbine was not moving at 1:00 PM.   It was turning at apparant full speed at 4:30 when we left. Whether it was producing power or not is a mystery. The turbine website does not have any recent information on it at all; the latest was the report of 94,620 KWH produced as of December 29.

 Harry   Roper  Houlton/Danforth 

Governor's weekly radio address

Energy proposal a 'job killer'

1/19/2012 @ 2:10PM |2,067 views

The Great Renewable Energy Scam: Is There A Change In The Wind?

Vinalhaven has reported in the 2 years since the Wind Turbines were started the local electrical rate has doubled. It appears that the money being doled  out to the supporters of the Oakfield project will quickly see the $ gain disappear between rate increases and  taxes on unearned income both state and federal.  What is wrong with the legislature in not protecting the taxpayers and the enviornment of Maine.

PUC staff: No go for energy firms’ wind deal

LePage challenges backers of Maine renewable energy initiative

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alice mckay barnett

maine artist

Saddleback Ridge  P.O.Box 588

Carthage, Maine 04224

Whom it may concern,

Maine Department of Environmental Protection

Augusta , Maine

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January 17. 2012 Art Lindgren

Mr. Kenneth Fletcher, Director

Governor’s Office of Energy Independence and Security 62 State House Station Augusta, Maine 04333-0062

Subject: Fox Islands Wind Electric Energy Rates Double in the Last Two Years

Mr. Fletcher,

The Fox Islands Wind turbines have been operating since November 2009, and after two years it is important to take stock of how this has affected electric rates on…