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Bills revive debate over Sears Island port plan

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published March 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM EDT

Lawmakers heard more than five hours of testimony Wednesday from both sides of a debate over preserving Sears Island in the Town of Searsport.

A pair of bills from state representative Reagan Paul would extend a conservation easement across the island and restore sand dune protections in a 330-acre parcel set aside for development.

The Winterport Republican said…

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Added by Long Islander on March 12, 2025 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Regulators approve Versant 23% rate hike

Note that Phil Bartlett, the Maine PUC chair quoted below, was a member of the original commission that paved the way for the free ride given to wind developers' recklessly savaging Maine's ridgelines and Mainers' bank accounts:

https://www.windtaskforce.org/page/the-expedited-wind-law

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published March 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM EDT

Versant Power customers…

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Added by Long Islander on March 12, 2025 at 5:07pm — 3 Comments

Markers on the Road to the Green Energy Concrete Wall — Electric Trucks Edition

Markers on the Road to the Green Energy Concrete Wall — Electric Trucks Edition

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/markers-on-the-road-to-the-green-energy-concrete-wall-electric

By Francis Menton

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Added by Willem Post on March 12, 2025 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

Millions of Dollars of Maine "Green" Graft Projects May Have Just Been Killed

Cutting of the Climate Graft to Mills has begun.

EPA Administration Says $20…

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Added by arthur qwenk on March 12, 2025 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

Amazon forest felled to build road for IPCC COP30 summit

Amazon forest felled to build road for IPCC COP30 summit

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Added by Willem Post on March 12, 2025 at 2:30pm — No Comments

These renewable supporting Republicans must be primaried

The article came across to me as largely pro-renewables propaganda.

Congressional Republicans have backed Trump's pro-fossil fuel agenda. But a group of 21 GOP lawmakers recently called for Congress to preserve tax credits that support the renewable energy industry. "As energy demand continues to skyrocket, any modifications that inhibit our ability to deploy new energy production risk sparking an energy crisis in our country, resulting in drastically higher power bills for…

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Added by Long Islander on March 12, 2025 at 10:24am — 3 Comments

Offshore Wind A Very Poor Investment



Vineyard Wind off Massachusetts was supposed to have turbines sending power to the grid by the end of 2023. Instead, there was a bit of delay, a blade broke off, and 150 blades are defective.

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The same turbine AW 38 was recently hit by lightning. After the blade failure on July 13, 2024, the turbine was left without…

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Added by Frank Haggerty on March 12, 2025 at 10:10am — 2 Comments

2025 The Year of Outrage Over Electricity Prices



Affordability Comes Back In Focus

New England Power Generators Association (NEPGA)

Posted on October 2, 2024


The goals of energy policy are often likened to a three-legged stool that must always be in balance: reliability, cost, and environmental impact. The three…

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Added by Dan McKay on March 12, 2025 at 7:53am — 1 Comment

Electric Bills in New England Continue to Rise Due to Renewable Energy and Efficiency Programs

This is what a bill in Rhode Island will look like come April 1,2025

Versant will increase distribution rates by 23%

CMP will increase distribution rates by July 2025. 

Added by Dan McKay on March 12, 2025 at 7:47am — No Comments

The UK Woodland Trust is Worried About Early Springs

The UK Woodland Trust is Worried About Early Springs

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-uk-woodland-trust-is-worried-about-early-springs

By Paul Homewood

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You may…

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Added by Willem Post on March 12, 2025 at 7:30am — 3 Comments

Whatever HQ is Trying to Do, It Isn't Working

Hydro-Quebec has cut off electricity exports to New England due to implementation of tariffs on Canadian imports by the Trump administration. HQ has purposely cut off power to hurt New England electricity customers by impacting reliability of electricity supply. However, It's Spring and ISO-NE has a surplus of generation (the import from New York continues unabated) so HQ withholding power DOES NOT affect overall reliability of New England electricity…
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Added by Dan McKay on March 12, 2025 at 7:29am — No Comments

Solar and Wind Are Going to Close Down Nuclear Plants

Wind and Solar Don't Get Along In the ISO-NE Grid

At 12:50 pm Solar Has Driven Wind Output Down by 487 Megawatts.

BUT AT A COST TO ALL GENERATORS at 12:50 pm WHEN PRICES FOR GENERATION WENT TO NEGATIVE $69.64 per megawatt. 

THIS MEANS ALL GENERATORS MUST PAY $69.64 per megawatt.

THIS KIND OF ACTION HAS DRIVEN NUCLEAR PLANTS INTO RETIREMENT BECAUSE THEY CAN NOT BACK DOWN THEIR GENERATION.

THIS INDICATES THE SATURATION POINT FOR BOTH WIND AND SOLAR…

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Added by Dan McKay on March 11, 2025 at 3:51pm — 2 Comments

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Announces Cancelation of 400+ Grants

by Margaret Flavin

Mar. 11, 2025

In February, the agency revealed that DOGE discovered that under Joe Biden, the EPA awarded $2 billion to a firm linked to failed Democrat Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.

Even worse, the firm only reported $100 in revenue in its first three months of business in 2023.

How did a brand-new firm that only reported $100 in revenue get awarded $2 billion??

Zeldin told the Free Beacon at the time of the…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on March 11, 2025 at 3:13pm — No Comments

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright Delivers Keynote Remarks at CERAWeek 2025

March 10, 2025…

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Added by Dan McKay on March 11, 2025 at 7:34am — 2 Comments

Retalitory Tariffs...The Midwest and Northeast are bracing for higher power bills --25 Percent up?

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Added by arthur qwenk on March 10, 2025 at 3:00pm — 4 Comments

US Defense Secty: "The @DeptofDefense does not do climate change crap.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Delivers a Savage Response to Pentagon Officials and ‘Experts’ Whining that Cutting ‘Climate Change’ Programs Will Harm National Security

by Cullen Linebarger

Mar. 9, 2025 7:20 pm

The shift from Lloyd Austin to Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary has proven to be one of the biggest upgrades in American history and a statement issued by Hegseth today drove that point home even further.

As TGP readers know, the Trump…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on March 10, 2025 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

SouthCoast Wind Permit 3 Days Before Trump Took Office

1. The Biden administration approved the SouthCoast Wind project on January 17, 2025, three days before President Trump took office. 
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Added by Frank Haggerty on March 10, 2025 at 7:57am — No Comments

Maine is getting a new energy code, and it’s a stretch

ByTux Turkel
March 9, 2025…
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Added by Long Islander on March 9, 2025 at 9:30pm — 3 Comments

Medieval Warm Period Undeniable, Pronounced in Antarctica and Poland, 2 New Studies Show

Medieval Warm Period Undeniable, Pronounced in Antarctica and Poland, 2 New Studies Show

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/medieval-warm-period-undeniable-pronounced-in-antarctica-and

By P Gosselin     …

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Added by Willem Post on March 9, 2025 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Trump cuts loom over Maine's zero-carbon power

So Governor, now that it is clear your efforts as an EV Pusher have failed and now that federal funds for most things "green" are hopefully being taken away, how do you plan to pay for all this debilitating and economy crushing nonsense?

Trump cuts loom over Maine's zero-carbon power

March 7, 2025

Stephen Singer

Portland Press…

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Added by Long Islander on March 9, 2025 at 11:51am — 2 Comments

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U.S. Sen Angus King

THE UNTOLD STORY OF RECORD HILL WIND

The Untold Story of Record Hill Wind, continued

 

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

******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********

(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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