March 2016 Blog Posts (86)

California, which is far more advanced than we are here in the backwoods of Maine, is trying to find a way to keep their grid from crashing as they fund more and more Wind and Solar facilities.  Their experts relate that it will cost BILLIONS to make the grid stable enough for renewable power and that cost will be handed over to the ratepayers.  That folks is you and me.  More traditional power generators don't need the massive upgrades, as their power is stable and constant.  In most cases…

Giving up home rule

means tax cut for some Maine towns…

Following the Pine Tree Watchdog's exposure of Diane Russell's personal use of her leadership PAC funds, The Ellsworth American call for a halt of leadership PACs! If only Naomi Schalit could be cloned and could investigate every leadership PAC!

http://www.ellsworthamerican.com/opinions/editorials/end-leadership-pacs

Solar Panels are a Waste of Taxpayer and Ratepayer Money for the Environmental Benefits Achieved.

Solar proponents (https://solarpowerrocks.com/vermont/) advertise a 9.9% annual rate of return over the life of a 5 kw solar project, which costs about $20,000. Investors can claim a first year tax credit of 30%, or $6000. The electric utility is required to credit 5.4…

Maine has plenty of hydro and biomass resources to comply with our own state renewable portfolio requirements for now and the foreseeable future. Maine has a problem with an onslaught of the variable resource wind plants replacing base load outputs. Removing the 100 megawatt limit on hydro resources would be meaningless to this wind onslaught as long as Southern New England continues to make large hydro ineligible for their renewable standards.  Their current…

In response to a question from Selectman Hart Daley from Dixfield, LePage says he will support a moratorium  on wind projects!  Monique! Gather the troops!

http://news.mpbn.net/post/lepage-s-latest-town-hall-concerns-aired-over-wind-power#stream/0

TransCanada Corp. is working with JPMorgan Chase & Co. to find buyers for more than $7 billion in assets .....

Kibby wind power operation in Maine and Ocean State Power gas generation facilities in Rhode Island.......could attract interest from private equity investors such as Blackstone Group LP, D.E. Shaw & Co.…

Being billed as an upgrade of transmission for consumers,  Emera Maine is asking for a $2.40 rate increase! In truth, the upgrade is being made to handle the power from the planned EDP Renewables wind power project located in Central Aroostook and currently being reviewed by DEP.…

Run, don't walk away from SunEdison. If you need more convincing check out the following three reasons why you shouldn't touch SUNE right now.

Read more: http://bit.ly/22tEer0#ixzz43evAinAs

A Boston conference last week with potential huge effect on Maine.

U.S./CANADA CROSS-BORDER POWER SUMMIT

BUILDING CAPACITY IN THE FACE OF MOUNTING ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS

March 14-15, 2016

Omni Parker House Hotel

Boston, MA

Their brochure:

http://www.euci.com/pdf/0316-cross-border.pdf

Article 3/21/16

Patrick…

Not sure how much of this is reported correctly - please decide for yourself. Is Patrick Woodcock talking about wind? By the way, southern New Englanders do not want wind. Rather, their corrupt bribed legislators do as obligation to their corporate masters and the average person gives this no thought. When the average person in Mass was asked to voluntarily opt in for wind, there were virtually no takers (less than 1%).…

By Mary Kay Barton

So explain why a sitting U.S. Senator has standing to compel state officials into approving a foreign corporation from an acquisition that the public was so vehemently against........Here is the real rub and the hidden motivation for giving favorable treatment to a foreign company. The miserable failure of industrial wind electric generation is so well established that most politicians are now reluctant to even mention the pie in the sky benefits from this extremely…

BY TUX TURKEL STAFF WRITER

Asked what those alternatives might be, Gailey mentioned using some of their land for solar farms. …

Iberdrola is constantly evaluating wind projects throughout the country, and “part of that process is always to be looking for new sites and new opportunities,” he said....... Mr. Copleman said the five-year renewal of the federal wind and solar tax credit is certainly positive for the wind industry. but he noted that benefits…

Links to articles with truthful information about the wind industry have a pattern of disappearing from the internet. This "big brother" activity has been going on for years. I have just been informed that the original story about Hawaii's turbines killing endangered species has disappeared. The story can still be read here.…