April 2023 Blog Posts (132)

Maine Monitor: Fishermen endangered by offshore wind’s political power

Perhaps the Maine Monitor would consider revisiting onshore wind now that it has been almost 13 years since their founders, Naomi Schalit and John Christie, first investigated the subject. They might want to consider starting with Senator Angus…

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Added by Long Islander on April 23, 2023 at 12:15pm — 2 Comments

The Greens are dragging Germany down with their foreign and energy policies

The Greens are dragging Germany down with their foreign and energy policies

Systematically cutting off Berlin’s international partnerships and access to cheap energy may prove to be the country’s downfall
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Added by Willem Post on April 23, 2023 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Happy Earth Day! Never trust the prophets of doom

Happy Earth Day! Never trust the prophets of doom







Earth Day at 53



None of the eco-doomsday predictions have come…

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Added by Willem Post on April 23, 2023 at 9:37am — 2 Comments

John Kerry: Green Energy Will Be More Competitive if We Raise Prices of Oil, Gas

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry stated that wind and solar power will become “far more price competitive than oil and gas” if oil and gas companies see their costs rise because they “have to spend huge amounts of money for carbon capture and storage and utilization.”

Weblink for full article and video:…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on April 22, 2023 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

How to Ruin an Economy: Germany to Ban New Gas and Oil Heaters in Buildings by Next Year

How to Ruin an Economy: Germany to Ban New Gas and Oil Heaters in Buildings by Next Year

KURT ZINDULKA

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The German…

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Added by Willem Post on April 22, 2023 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Interesting Moves by the Calpine Corporation

  • What we know is Calpine Corporation owns natural gas-fired electric plants in Maine and Massachusetts.
We also know, thanks to the data collected by the Energy Information Agency (EIA), that Calpine's Massachusetts plant Produced 1,271,039 LESS megawatt hours of electricity in 2022 than 2019
We also know from EIA data that Calpine's plant in Maine produced 1,504,664 MORE…
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Added by Dan McKay on April 22, 2023 at 9:23am — 1 Comment

A Quick Reveal of Markets That Set Electricity Supply Costs

  • ISO-NE Tracks the wholesale costs of electricity 

  • CHART1 depicts annual wholesale costs of electricity

  • CHART 2 depicts retail costs in CMP …
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Added by Dan McKay on April 22, 2023 at 8:20am — No Comments

Massachusetts 2 New Commissions To Clear Wind Contracts Year End

Massachusetts creating two new commissions to clear wind contracts by year-end. 
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The first commission to review clean energy siting and permitting. 
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The second commission is…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on April 21, 2023 at 3:02pm — No Comments

Polls: Despite Relentless Propaganda, Climate Change Skepticism is Growing

by Paul Joseph Watson

April 21st 2023

Two recent polls have found that despite relentless propaganda promoting the man-made global warming narrative, climate change skepticism is growing globally.

A survey conducted by a group within the University of Chicago asked Americans whether humans were causing all or most of climate change.…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on April 21, 2023 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Blinken Busted: Played Central Role In Discrediting Hunter Biden Laptop Story As Election Loomed

Blinken Busted: Played Central Role In Discrediting Hunter Biden Laptop Story As Election Loomed

BY TYLER DURDEN





In a major development in the House ongoing…

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Added by Willem Post on April 21, 2023 at 9:54am — 6 Comments

Ford F-150 Lightning fire footage highlights a growing EV risk

Ford F-150 Lightning fire footage highlights a growing EV…

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Added by Willem Post on April 21, 2023 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

From Stupid Unreliable Energy Policy to Your Mortgage Rates, the Left Wing Lunacy of Biden et al is Comprehensive.

American home buyers who have good credit scores will be penalized in an effort by the Biden administration to achieve equity.

The lunatic left's failed schemes , such as wind and solar, have no bounds, as long as you keep paying for the insanity championed by this imbecilic administration of Left Wing Puppet Biden.…

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Added by arthur qwenk on April 20, 2023 at 5:00pm — 5 Comments

Biden's New Solar Scam - Rooftop Solar For Citizens With Poor Credit Scores

Clown world strikes again with this ridiculous boondoggle. A three billion dollar loan guarantee to a solar (Sunnova Energy Corp) company to install rooftop solar systems for disadvantage citizens. Sounds like another Solyndra scam. 

Here's the article on the announcement:…

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Added by Richard McDonald/Saving Maine on April 20, 2023 at 4:46pm — 4 Comments

Boston Globe article on Maine jury's rule in favor of NECEC

By Mike Damiano Globe Staff, Updated April 20, 2023, 12:57 p.m.

A Maine jury ruled Thursday that construction can proceed on a transmission line that will carry clean, hydropower from Quebec to Massachusetts through the region’s power grid — bolstering efforts to shift the state’s electricity consumption away from carbon-emitting fossil fuels.

The decision in favor of Avangrid, the Connecticut company building the transmission line, overturns the result of a 2021 ballot…

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Added by Long Islander on April 20, 2023 at 4:24pm — 2 Comments

Grid operators are sounding alarms about the increasing instability of US power grids

The near failure of the Texas power grid, coming just 4 minutes and 37 seconds from a complete collapse on February 14, 2021, was the first alarm bell that something was dreadfully wrong with US power grids. Meredith Angwin, a physical chemist and power grid specialist, described the February 2021 failure of the Texas power grid failure as a seminal event that was not a surprise: “Those of us who were watching the grid had noticed for years that Texas ran with a very low reserve margin…and…

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Added by Long Islander on April 20, 2023 at 3:16pm — No Comments

NECEC Wins in Court!

Great news in Maine! Common sense prevailed in a UNANIMOUS court decision in favor of the New England Energy Connect (NECEC) line. A decision based on FACTS, not green ideology! This line would be delivering 1200 MW of hydroelectricity 24/7/365 to the ISO New England grid already if asinine opposition based on misinformation, outright lies and hatred of CMP hadn't thrown numerous roadblocks at a project that had played by the regulatory rules and earned all of the necessary…

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Added by Brad Blake on April 20, 2023 at 2:15pm — 6 Comments

PPH - Defense rests on day 6 of trial over fate of CMP corridor

April 18, 2023

BY TUX TURKEL STAFF WRITER

EXCERPTS

The landmark trial that could decide the fate of the $1 billion New England Clean Energy Connect power line moved closer to a climax on Tuesday after the defense rested its case. Closing arguments are scheduled for Wednesday, followed by an anticipated verdict from the nine-member jury.

The jury on Tuesday heard from the trial’s final three witnesses. Hammering away at a common theme, defense attorneys…

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Added by Long Islander on April 19, 2023 at 1:57pm — 1 Comment

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CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

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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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