March 2015 Blog Posts (71)

A Troubling Document

While you may not have the time to read this latest piece of pro-wind propaganda, please download the file for your future reference and browse through the table of contents.

http://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/WindVision_Report_final.pdf

This underscores the need for the…

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Added by Long Islander on March 22, 2015 at 10:00am — 7 Comments

Friends of Maine's Mountains Testimony on LD 132 and Work Session Advisory (Mar 25 1PM)

Click on the following link to read FMM's testimony in favor of LD 132, An Act to Remove the 100 Megawatt Limit on Hydropower under the Renewable Resources Laws.

FMM%20Testimony%20on%20LD%20132.doc

The EUT Committee's work session covering this bill is Wednesday, Mar 25, 2015 from 1PM-5PM.…

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Added by Long Islander on March 21, 2015 at 10:57pm — 2 Comments

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Added by alice mckay barnett on March 21, 2015 at 3:15pm — 4 Comments

Maine's Scenic Byways

Here's a map (date unknown) showing Maine's officially designated SCENIC byways. Under the Wind Energy Act as it now stands, only the turnouts/parking lots on these byways are considered "scenic resources". The length of road that is legally designated SCENIC carries absolutely no weight when considering industrial wind project applications. The wind industry and their cronies thought of everything when they drafted the WEA!

One might ask if the legislature was aware of this when they…

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Added by Gary Campbell on March 21, 2015 at 11:55am — 3 Comments

EUT Hearing, March 19th 2015 [VIDEO] LD 132

On March 19th, the 127th Legislative EUT Committee held a hearing on LD 132 - Removal of 100Mw limit on Hydropower under the Renewable Energy Laws. The information contained within this video aids in clarification into how Green Energy in Maine is determined, how REC's are valued, traded and adds to ratepayer costs in the Green Energy market.  It also shows how an unfair advantage is given to a particular methodology of energy production in…

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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on March 21, 2015 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

Public Advocate : Ratepayer Funds to Benefit Ratepayers, Not Economic Development

   A bill the EUT committee held public hearing on; L.D. 273 An Act To Encourage and Enhance the Future of Waste-to-energy Facilities Resource Laws, describes a desire to make a new Renewable Class with associated renewable energy credits for waste to electricity producing plants. This new Class is looking to procure $10 per credit to start.
    Our Public Advocate, realizing such credits mean added costs on customer electric bills testified :
               " We take…
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Added by Dan McKay on March 20, 2015 at 5:55pm — 1 Comment

Augusta, We Need A Make-Over

    The State wants to make over the electric generating industry just 10 years from the last make-over and their reasoning is so the state will  be in a jobs available market.

    Realistically, the electric market serves customers best when certainty for many more years than ten years is offered them  The last make-over in generation occurred in 2000-2001 when 5 new natural gas plants came online in Maine, just after Maine Yankee retired and electric restructuring took…
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Added by Dan McKay on March 20, 2015 at 5:13pm — 3 Comments

Four Maine wind power articles today

LePage Seeks to Remove Cap on Maine Hydropower

The cap was put in place several years ago to encourage renewable energy generation, and it exempts wind power. LePage says the cap prevents Maine from accessing cheaper power from Canada, and he's trying the get the Legislature to agree.…

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Added by Long Islander on March 20, 2015 at 4:00pm — 2 Comments

Rigging data for excessive wind energy Tax credit's part 2

Rigging data for excessive wind energy Tax credit's part 2.........................

The IRS Form 8835  for wind industry tax credits needs to be amended immediately to account for the actual net energy produced. Also if electrity is being consumed by these wind farms who is to say that electricity is not flowing right back out in form of green energy.

Energy consumption in wind facilities



Large wind turbines require a large amount of energy…

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Added by Jim Wiegand on March 20, 2015 at 3:11pm — No Comments

  Rigging data for excessive wind energy Tax credit's part 1......................... Tax credits are being figured from the energy claimed to have been produced at wind farms. These credits do not t…

 

Rigging data for excessive wind energy Tax credit's part 1.........................

Tax credits are being figured from the energy claimed to have been produced at wind farms. These credits do not take into consideration the energy used by these wind facilities.  So not only does it appear that energy produced by wind farms is being embellished by about 33% they do not have to account for the energy purchased to keep the wind farms running when filing with the IRS…

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Added by Jim Wiegand on March 20, 2015 at 2:57pm — 4 Comments

IRS: Renewables Companies May Be Double-Dipping Federal Subsidies

The IRS saying they can't tell who's double dipping is an invitation for the wind parasites to do it.…

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Added by Rob P on March 19, 2015 at 1:46pm — No Comments

Production Tax Credits come in two forms - One is hidden

Below are US Energy information Administration (EIA) figures just released from 2013, along with some additional information from the IRS. The production tax credits are given in two forms. One is publicized in the media at 2.3 cents per kWh and on the table it is listed as "Tax Expenditures".                                                                                                                                                                                        The other…

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Added by Jim Wiegand on March 18, 2015 at 8:06pm — 4 Comments

NEW - Moosehead Lake In Crosshairs of First Wind and Plum Creek (Bangor Daily News - Mar 18)

3/18/15

First Wind has applied for permission to install six meteorological towers in Chase Stream, Misery, Misery Gore and Johnson Mountain townships, according to Samantha Horn-Olsen, planning manager for the Land Use Planning Commission......The relevant parcel is owned by Plum Creek Maine…

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Added by Long Islander on March 18, 2015 at 6:30pm — 17 Comments

Maine, you’re an eyewitness to a train wreck

3/17/15

Business reporter Darren Fishell at the Bangor Daily News wrote earlier today that, “The corporate subsidy watchdog agency Good Jobs First found Central Maine Power Co. parent company Iberdrola topped the list of all recipients of federal grants and tax credits, primarily in tax…

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Added by Long Islander on March 18, 2015 at 5:00pm — No Comments

EDP tactic to quiet an increasingly vocal, well-educated and well-informed opposition

“EDP's remarks appear to be a standard wind industry tactic to try to quiet an increasingly vocal, well-educated and well-informed opposition......"

EDP filed plans on Nov. 5 with the Federal Aviation Administration for 29 wind turbines standing 499 feet in height......…

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Added by Long Islander on March 18, 2015 at 1:00am — 5 Comments

Iberdrola & First Wind top federal subsidy recipients since 2000 (Bangor Daily News)

SunEdison, which purchased wind developer First Wind earlier this year, was second on the list for the same reason. Both companies are major owners of wind projects.

.....the public has a right to detailed, company-specific information on the support federal agencies are providing to the private sector, and that disclosure is fundamental to reform,” the report states.…

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Added by Long Islander on March 17, 2015 at 8:30pm — 6 Comments

Spain and Yieldcos Rule in Maine!



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Spain Rules Maine!

Why?

Because graft and collusion in the Maine legislature as it relates to wind power corruption and collusion was allowed and legislated in 2008 by PL-661, by the Baldacci clan et al.

Pl-661 should be…

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Added by arthur qwenk on March 17, 2015 at 7:26pm — No Comments

IRS rules for wind power: Legal or Not?

Lisa Linowes - February 24, 2015

Taxes & Subsidies USA

Clearly, the interpretation of what constitutes “begin construction” is important, yet at no time during the two years since the PTC was extended with this wording did the IRS bother to seek public comment under the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA"), the federal statute that requires federal agencies to provide notice and an opportunity to comment before promulgating rules.

Read more at:…

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Added by Long Islander on March 14, 2015 at 2:00pm — No Comments

THEY ARE THERE !



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Their plans to destroy the  Moosehead area for Terraform "Yieldcos" of their Investors are being seeded.

Remember,they will openly lie and actively deceive. They…

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Added by arthur qwenk on March 14, 2015 at 9:30am — No Comments

Bingham Condition Compliance for Financial Capacity and Decommissioning

Just received this document from: 

Dan Courtemanch

Environmental Specialist

Maine Department of Environmental Protection 

Bingham Wind Project Application

Email: BinghamWindProject.DEP@maine.gov

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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on March 13, 2015 at 3:02pm — 2 Comments

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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

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(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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