... and don't we know that.

Recently, LD 616, a bill allowing citizens in Unorganized Territories to have a voice in zoning wind towers, which the Baldacci administration stripped from the public through the 2008 Wind Energy Act, was pulled from the omnibus energy bill. Senate Democratic Leader Seth Goodall of Richmond said the reason he was pulling the bill was, “These are…

Developers see fertile land for wind turbines in Jonesport

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June 27. 2013 11:26AM

Northern Pass unveils plan to run underground wires at additional $200 million

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20130627/NEWS/130629281

Just really a press release. Not as much underground as the…

This article is being posted on behalf of Lynne Williams. The place described is over a 3,000 mile drive from Maine. But it feels like Maine or maybe Maine feels like Tehuantepec.

To All, Many of the struggles are hidden, like the one described below.  Lynne

Fighting for ancestral rights

In Mexico, indigenous communities living in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca state - a…

This is worth noting given how the wind industry and their sock puppets at the so called and on-the-take environmental groups in Maine like to cite Denmark as a shining role model of wind power. DONG is 76% owned by the Danish government. ""Every time we were building onshore, the public reacts in a …

Europe’s Renewables Hype Implodes As German Solar Goes Belly Up

http://www.energytribune.com/77909/europes-renewables-hype-implodes-as-german-solar-goes-belly-up#sthash.ylJ758Yv.wyLhcjPz.dpbs

and…

Bravo Connecticut!

And then of course there's Vermont, which signed a 20 year deal for low cost Canadian hydro. Maine has had the opportunity to do the same, but instead chooses to protect the out of state wind industry and make Maine ratepayers pay dearly to support these parasites.…

Maine Voices: Benefits of hydropower require investment now in our energy future

Let's do more to harness a source that is inexpensive, versatile, very efficient and good for the environment.

By ROSE GRIFFIN…

We can't say we weren't warned. It was all written right here.

For years we have patiently followed the rules. We've done everything we were asked to do. Yet this week the Maine Senate just completely blew off the citizens whose rights were stolen by the wind con men.

Listen again please, for there is no other way to say it -  the Maine Senate just…

Rural citizens lose battle to have say in wind tower rezoning

By: NAOMI SCHALIT AND JOHN CHRISTIE ©MAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST…

Need to get the roll call and give those who voted with the lobby an earful.

Can we start protesting now? It's such a corrupt business.

Al Diamon has a piece up

http://thebollard.com/2013/06/19/media-mutt-87/

saying he can't find a bias in Colin Woodard's new Press Herald "expose" of the Board of Environmental Protection & Patricia Aho:…

Please take a moment and go to the following link and review and sign the petition if you agree with it.

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/wind-isnt-working?source=c.url&r_by=4692087

Let's lend all the support we can to our friends in New Hampshire. To an eagle, it's all the same place.

I encourage you to read the following from Scottish Wild Land Group with authors from the John Muir Trusts. As you may know Scotland has aggressively built wind turbines in the open area…hopefully not in their wildlife sanctuary areas. 

Wind Farms Gone Wild: Is the environmental damage justified?

Why are personnel of the John Muir Trusts “the UK's leading wild land conservation charity.…

This piece ran in today's Wall Street Journal.  One has to buy the paper or be an on-line subscriber to read it.  By a stroke of luck, this is actually a piece picked up from June 17th in "The Hockey Schtick" blog.  So I have picked it up from that blog.  But being on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal is a major coup.   The Heartland Institute was instrumental in helping to defeat the renewal of the Production Yax Credit in Congress last year and the author is the science…

The cost of requiring more renewable power

By Carol Weston, Special to the BDN

It’s not easy to unite the right-wing Heartland Institute and bird-loving environmentalists.

But that’s what some wind energy developers appear to be doing by proposing to the federal government that they be allowed to kill bald eagles and other protected species with their turbines.

Read the full article here:…

For shame:

http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/dislike-of-panhandlers-fuels-ban-proposal_2013-06-17.html

and also at:…

True cost of Britain's wind farm industry revealed ... 

Every job in Britain’s wind farm industry is effectively subsidised to the extent of £100,000 per year...

UK Telegraph 15 Jun 2013

A new analysis of government and industry figures shows that wind turbine owners received £1.2billion in the form of a…