March 2018 Blog Posts (110)

Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a New Era of Corruption)

This well written article is now nine years old. The state of many newspapers is now much, much worse. Where are newspapers getting their revenue today?…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on March 3, 2018 at 12:30am — No Comments

Dear AWEA: There Are Wind Power Nuisance & Health Effects (complaints, studies large and growing)

Regarding peer review studies, for example, consult “Literature Review 2013: Association between Wind Turbine Noise and Human Distress.” Also, Sherri Lange has document the problem in her posts:

‘Sensing but Not Hearing: The Problem of Wind Turbine Noise (Interview with acoustician Steven Cooper, AU)’ February 2, 2018.

‘Wind Turbine Syndrome’ (Science advances, Australia judiciary takes note)‘ January 26, 2018.…

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Added by Long Islander on March 2, 2018 at 4:32pm — No Comments

How to Kill a Bill, Slap Down a Governor, And Puke All Over The Citizens

The smell of collusion is entrenched in these two statements :

Correspondence From Senator Tom Saviello 3-1-18 :

"Mr. Mckay, Let me be clear, there is no "hanky panky" going on. I have consistently worked to get all the environmentally related win bills in front of the environmental and natural resources committee(ENR) since DEP is the state department implementing the rules. In fact in 2013 I was successful in…

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Added by Dan McKay on March 2, 2018 at 3:24pm — No Comments

JOHN E. BALDACCI - Why Have the Maine Media Not Reported This?

With wind power one of the most controversial issues Maine has ever seen; and with the 2008 expedited wind law "the most radical land use law in Maine history"; is it not newsworthy when the former Governor who personally rammed that wind industry-developed abhorrent law down our throats becomes the …

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Added by Long Islander on March 2, 2018 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

New England Wind Power Proposals Surpass Natural Gas Plans

The manager of New England's power grid says for the first time ever, there are more proposals for new wind power projects than there are for natural gas. But getting those wind turbines up and running is a totally different ballgame.

About half of those new proposed wind projects would be onshore -- in northern parts of New England. But here's the problem: many don't have a way to plug into the grid........…

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Added by Long Islander on March 2, 2018 at 5:00am — 1 Comment

A Failed Representative State Government

The House acted on LD 1810 during the 2/6/18 session and referred it to the EUT Committee.

The Senate acted on LD 1810 during the 2/27/18 session and referred it to the ENR Committee, even after fully knowing the House had already referred it to EUT. Referred by Senator Saviello.

This set-up today's session in the House where a concurrence to the Senate action would have moved the bill on to the ENR Committee

Rep. Fredette explained the voting…

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Added by Dan McKay on March 1, 2018 at 9:00pm — 6 Comments

BDN - Maine House stalls LePage’s effort to block wind energy development

Gov. Paul LePage’s push to curtail expedited permitting for wind energy projects suffered a serious blow Thursday by Democrats trying to kill the governor’s bill before it can be formally introduced...........

 The bill debated Thursday in the House is a follow-on to that order. It would reduce the expedited permitting area, which currently includes much of Aroostook, Washington, Penobscot and Somerset Counties, to only a portion of…

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Added by Long Islander on March 1, 2018 at 4:00pm — 11 Comments

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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

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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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