August 2016 Blog Posts (71)

Jeremy Payne, executive director of the Maine Renewable Energy Association, said some investors are now being “scared off” with towns leaving the zone. Payne said the expedited state process already includes public hearings and can take years.........

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/08/20/rural-mainers-want-more-say-in-fast-tracked-wind-projects/

During remarks at the Milton substantive review hearing, Nick Livesay of LUPC stated to date, 1 million acres of land have been removed from the Expedited Wind Zone. 27 Unorganized Territories have been removed  with Milton and Carroll Plantation awaiting substantive review decisions, and 13 more UT removals pending. Details can be found on the LUPC web site. Great work by everyone involved!…

It’s true. The system is broken, it’s corrupt, and it doesn’t matter how many people bring attention to it. They do not care, which has been said all along, and once again, confirmed.

http://www.windaction.org/posts/45578-end-industrial-wind-nightmare#.V7MVSvkrKUk

Case worries too many wind turbines could ruin the state’s tourism industry and outdoor feel.

“Wind turbines are an irreversible change to the landscape,.......The benefits of wind are disproportionately on the West Coast, and the costs of wind are disproportionately in Wyoming — and I mean the social costs,”…

The renewable energy giant SunEdison has asked a bankruptcy judge to approve its sale of various wind projects, including a proposal near Moosehead Lake that has generated local opposition.

SunEdison wants to sell the proposed 26-turbine project on Misery Ridge as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and it has asked a court to allow the renewable energy division of the Houston-based NRG to serve as the starting bidder, or…

By: NAOMI SCHALIT, SENIOR REPORTER ©MAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING | February 19, 2014

Part one of a two-part series, "The TIF Game"

Get a TIF, and you, too, have to pay taxes on that new warehouse or factory – but the taxes don’t help pay for the schools, plowing and cops.

Instead, the property taxes paid by a company with a TIF…

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-wyoming-wind-tax-snap-story.html

Can't do it, no money in it at all to pay taxes???

I thought renewables made piles of $$$

A U.S. judge denied a request by shareholders of SunEdison for an official committee to represent them in the bankruptcy of the U.S. renewable power plant developer, which the judge described as “hopelessly insolvent.”

http://fortune.com/2016/08/12/sunedison-shareholders-denied-official-role-in-bankruptcy/

CANBERRA, Australia…

This article talks about the growth of "public demand for clean energy". What a complete crock that is. Horrible biased reporting. The people of southern New England states don't demand "clean" energy. Rather, their legislators (many …

some questions I had from LUPC Milton meet. 

Juliet Browne stated quite articulately that "Complaint Response Protocol" is in place.

I told LUPC it is a "hotline". 1-800-developer.

Bat deaths were same at SMW as other wind projects in Maine.   23.4 bats a year.

Does she or LUPC know how they count bird mortalities at the projects?

They plant dead carcasses on site.

In argument of decommissioning one shill states they are full of copper.…

LePage has tilted against windmills, literally, in opposing both wind and solar power as too expensive. He favors natural gas and hydro. The folks pursuing wind and solar…