May 2022 Blog Posts (36)

Victor Davis Hanson’s Magnum Opus

By John Dale Dunn

Victor Davis Hanson is one of the most respected historians/intellectuals of the conservative movement; I have been an enthusiast of his work going back to my first experience with his erudition and eloquence—The Western Way of War (1989, 2nd ed. 2000), an explanation of why citizen soldiers are so effective and why Western Armies have been so lethal. Now he is past 24 books and hundreds if not thousands of essays as well as appearances regularly on TV that…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on May 16, 2022 at 6:00am — 1 Comment

Net Zero? India Plans to DOUBLE Coal Consumption by 2040

Net Zero? India Plans to DOUBLE Coal Consumption by 2040

 

Essay by Eric Worrall

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/12/net-zero-india-plans-to-double-coal-use-by-2040/

 

As the USA and Europe retreat…

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Added by Willem Post on May 13, 2022 at 7:30pm — 2 Comments

Shasta County close to a complete ban on all large wind energy projects

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Shasta County, California has moved a step closer towards banning all large wind energy projects. Yesterday the planning Commission voted 4-1 in favor of this ban. It now goes up…
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Added by Jim Wiegand on May 13, 2022 at 2:30pm — 3 Comments

Today a monumental ideological victory in Vermont State House !

Congratulations to Governor Scott who cares about his constituent's future and well- being !

Shame to those democratic legislators who voted to override the Governor's veto !

An immense bravo to democrats Nelson Brownell and Thomas Bock who courageously defied the pathological ideological drivel from the  Vermont enviro/businesses/activists conglomerate who tried so desperately to sink their teeth in Vermont's backs . 

    

"The Vermont House today…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on May 10, 2022 at 1:30pm — 11 Comments

RECs: The Hidden Costs of Renewables

In places like New England, where land value makes it expensive to build new facilities, REC sales provide an essential revenue stream for renewable energy developers. Each REC has a price. The price is the additional amount needed per MWh by the renewable energy generator to make post-1997 projects financially feasible. By mandating this type of renewable energy, the law is ensuring increased renewable energy supply in a space where supply would not get built without a…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 7, 2022 at 10:37am — 4 Comments

Who Said Wind Turbines Aren't An Expensive Nuisance

Falmouth Massachusetts Nuisance Town Owned Wind Turbines 

Who Said Wind Turbines Aren't An Expensive Nuisance 
The Town of Falmouth, Massachusetts installed two industrial…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on May 7, 2022 at 10:01am — No Comments

A Plan of Unintended Consequences

The Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan is the Governor’s plan, approved by the Legislature, to invest nearly $1 billion in Federal American Rescue Plan funds to improve the lives of Maine people and families
 
From this money:
 

This new program builds upon actions already…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 7, 2022 at 7:26am — No Comments

An Appropriate Title

Con-Ed, an out of state energy company is attempting to bully the Maine PUC in accepting their terms for the construction of transmission services to Northern Maine that will hurt the ratepayers. 

Added by Dan McKay on May 7, 2022 at 7:14am — No Comments

Communism At Work

  Androscoggin County Valley of Governments will use its award to help four towns –

   Town of Jay

    , Carthage , Greenwood and

   Town of Chesterville

    – develop climate planning priorities . “AVCOG serves some of the state’s most vulnerable populations , and with 72% of the Maine’s communities lacking planning staff , we applaud the Maine Won’t Wait climate action plan for identifying our work as critical in…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 7, 2022 at 7:05am — 2 Comments

Maine Sierra Club: Base for offshore wind development doesn’t belong on Sears Island

Where were these people when interior Maine was being ravaged (and still is) by wind projects?

Joan Saxe and Becky Bartovics are Sierra Club Maine volunteers.

We salute Gov. Janet Mills’ Climate Action Plan to support offshore wind development, promoting a fossil fuel free, renewable energy economy. Gulf of Maine wind resources have a…

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Added by Long Islander on May 6, 2022 at 3:30pm — No Comments

New “Office of Environmental Justice” Unveiled to Advance Biden’s Climate Agenda (VIDEO)

US Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday unveiled a new “Office of Environmental Justice” to advance Joe Biden’s climate agenda.

“The new office will be headed by Cynthia Ferguson, an attorney working in the DOJ’s Environmental Enforcement Section of its Environment and Natural Resources Division.” – CNN reported.

Garland said…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on May 5, 2022 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

Conservation groups call for federal review of offshore wind impact on Gulf of Maine ecosystems

How about the wind projects that are ruining interior Maine?

Maine Public | By Fred Bever

Published May 3, 2022 at 4:57 PM EDT

A wide coalition of New England conservation groups is calling on federal regulators for a rigorous review of the potential effects of offshore wind-farms on Gulf of Maine ecosystems and fisheries. And they want that effort made before specific wind sites are proposed - which the feds did not do when planning wind-lease areas in southern…

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Added by Long Islander on May 4, 2022 at 4:06pm — 3 Comments

University of Maine System to fully divest from fossil fuel by 2030

Maine Public | By Robbie Feinberg

Published April 29, 2022 at 4:47 PM EDT

The University of Maine System is planning to fully divest from fossil fuels by 2030 — starting with the elimination of all direct fossil fuel holdings by the end of May.

On Thursday, the investment committee for the system's board of trustees…

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Added by Long Islander on May 2, 2022 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

Battery-Powered, Transit Bus Explodes While Parked at a Street Curb in Paris, France; Watch Video.

A million-dollar, BATTERY-POWERED transit bus (which costs about 3 times as much as a regular transit bus), parked at a street curb, in Paris, France.
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Suddenly, it has smoke coming from the roof, then it explodes, and burns fiercely for hours, until it burns itself out.
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BTW, dousing the flames with water or…
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Added by Willem Post on May 2, 2022 at 10:30am — 7 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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