Angus -be sure to show him the data on UMPI's wind turbine that the University has been covering up for just under eight years now. And show him everything you can about your very own Record Hill wind project and all the nonsense surrounding it. Or should the people of Maine bring all of that to the attention of the new administration?

U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, invited Rick Perry, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Energy, to visit the…

“Today wind generates enough electricity to power 20 million homes”………….  First you have to accept the wind industry's embellished wind energy numbers, which are not accurate especially since energy flowing projects is not accounted for.  But if one does happen to accept these figures, then this statement is slightly true because these are primarily light bulb numbers.  The real truth is most of the energy being consumed or used to power a home in the US, is from…

I'm probably too annoyed to write about the most recent of MA Public Officials writing green rules that ultimately benefit them.  But, this swamp drained will benefit New Englanders and silence is the voice of complicity. 

There were zero comments on this Boston Globe 1/18/17 piece I read this AM which demonstrates very troubling public apathy.

'A State House go-to guy on energy issues finds a new place in the sun'

A…

 Today starting 1pm  the EUT will do its orientation for new committee members, followed by presentations by energy-related state officials and by   concerned citiens, NGOs and companies…

It is my understanding that legal actions against the wind industry from several different parties may take place in the near future. To help with these actions I am going to give my expert opinion in a series of posts pertaining to the wind industry’s non-scientific and fraudulent mortality data. These posts may include my personal notes.          

The highest annual estimated bird mortality from wind turbines in the US is claimed to be no more than 573,000. After reading through…

The Boston Globe is beating the climate change drum again with new readings saying the Earth has set a new record for warming and this is the third year in a row.  I have a few questions about this though, like what happened to the temperatures of the 1930's which were significantly higher than the ones today, and what about the flat lining of the temperatures of the last 18 years?  And what happened to the Medieval warming Period? And what about 1997?  All these were a lot higher than this…

By John Droz, Jr. -- January 16, 2017

The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a…

(Bloomberg) — Wind-power skeptic Donald Trump’s proposed tax reform may have an unintended consequence: threatening wind farms’ balance sheets......The president-elect’s proposal to cut the corporate tax rate to as low as 15% may curb availability of an esoteric, but critical, clean-energy financing mechanism known as tax equity......That could significantly curb businesses’ need for tax credits. It would also drag down wind developers’ after-tax internal rates of…

Even though this rule was primarily designed for the unencumbered expansion of wind energy into the wetland habitats inhabited by bald eagles, this new rule  does include all industrial eagle take.  

Population estimates used for eagle take were created with embellished population figures. Proof of this was submitted in my 7.1.2016 comments to the Interior department.  However my eagle take figures of 6200 are not correct. The final revisions had several changes from…

What about the federal government's recently issued "KILLING PERMIT" of 6,200 eagles a year to protect the Wall Street crowd and other insiders who make billions off the U.S. taxpayer from wind?

The article states the US population is 30,000 pairs but fails to note what it used to be. Some estimates put it at 250,000 pairs in the 1700's.

"In Maine, where the breeding population of great cormorants is small and efforts to save them are underway,…

Cape Cod and Industrial Wind Turbine Placement Issues

Wind Turbine placement on Cape Cod in Massachusetts continues to be an unsettling clash for citizens' health and property values

Why should we care?  Well, for one, Maine's Biodiversity Research Institute just labeled eagles a problem in today's Portland Press Herald:

"In Maine, where the breeding population of great cormorants is small and efforts to save them are underway, the bald eagles are a problem, said Chris DeSorbo, director of the raptor program at the Biodiversity Research Institute in Portland". …