September 2016 Blog Posts (59)

Portland Press Herald Runs Major Shill Piece for Wind

The article seems to candy coat wind energy, never mentioning wind's huge problems including massive transmission costs, lack of grid scale electricity storage, lack of dispatchability, highly destructive environmental impacts, highly deleterious human impacts, harm to wildlife, future decommissioning nightmares, loss of property values, transmogrification of viewsheds, community divisiveness, diversion of attention from true energy research and growing worldwide opposition to wind…

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Added by Long Islander on September 13, 2016 at 7:00am — 4 Comments

Portland benchmarking its environmental footprint

"On the record…

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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on September 12, 2016 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Vermont Gubernatorial Candidate Calls for Ban on Ridgeline Wind Development

He added that if he wins the election he would use an executive order to stop new projects. Such a moratorium would likely last for as long as Scott remains in office..........Other concerns discussed at the gathering included the project’s impact on property values, wildlife, water runoff, turbine noise and more. Numerous residents noted that the rocky landscape would carry sound to more homes. Others said the use of renewable energy credits would cancel out any green benefits to the…

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Added by Long Islander on September 11, 2016 at 3:22pm — No Comments

The U.S. Department of Energy Loves Enron

1 million Acres of Ocean Area have been gifted to Enron by the Department of Energy.  This Ocean Area is Public Trust that the feds were supposed to have held In Trust for US. 

This is why we need to get rid of the U.S. Department of Energy.  It's spin central creating the illusion of success where there is failure funded by U.S. citizens.

Energy Secretary Moniz and Interior Secretary Jewell…

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Added by Barbara Durkin on September 9, 2016 at 1:42pm — 1 Comment

Comments on Wind from the DEP update briefing to the JSC-ENR Sept. 7th, 2016

"Comments on Wind from the DEP…

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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on September 9, 2016 at 11:30am — 4 Comments

Aroostook County: Power Purchasing Agreement for Number Nine Wind Project Terminated

Please see Dan McKay's comment below.

"The Maine DEP is proposing a rule change in the tangible benefit section "Evidence of a power purchase agreement or other agreement to distribute the electricity."  This would open the door to revealing how Maine is being used to comply with other state laws while corrupting the state's landscape......................................" (See Comment section)

Aroostook County: Power Purchasing Agreement for Number Nine Wind…

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Added by Long Islander on September 9, 2016 at 11:00am — 4 Comments

Wind developer seeks Special Permit to uproot its fleet of 63 turbines

It's vindicating for anti-wind activists like me to read criticisms of the wind industry by representatives of the the wind industry.

Illinois-  Renewable company claims 63 wind turbines, "are operating at a deficit", "are not efficient" and seeks to uproot them after only 13 yrs in operation according to management at  Dallas-based Leeward Renewable Energy that has applied for a Special Use Permit from Lee County Zoning…

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Added by Barbara Durkin on September 9, 2016 at 10:30am — No Comments

The Golden Fleece is on VPIRG’s back

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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on September 9, 2016 at 10:30am — No Comments

Rome board gets more time to develop wind energy ordinance

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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on September 8, 2016 at 12:49pm — No Comments

Citizens Need Lobotomies if they allow wind TIFs

Getting property values reduced,noise, and natural environment destroyed is the " benefit" accrued by wind shyster's projects. Allowing them tax breaks for these "benefits" is breathtaking and indeed insane.

Just Say No!

Added by arthur qwenk on September 5, 2016 at 7:50pm — 2 Comments

PPH - Rhode Islanders Reject Wind as Their Wind Energy Mandates Foist it on Mainers

Even as Rhode Island makes history as the first U.S. state with an offshore wind farm, its people are not so fond of wind turbines sprouting up on land near where they live......Rhode Island is tiny and densely populated. And people who like the idea of wind energy in the abstract rarely want it near their own backyards, …

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Added by Long Islander on September 5, 2016 at 9:30am — No Comments

When Corruption Rules

Added by Jim Wiegand on September 2, 2016 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

North America’s first proposed offshore wind project

Back in 1992, before Bill Clinton’s slimy administration came along,  a Danish consortium (consisting primarily of Vestas-Danish Wind Technology proposed an offshore wind turbine project consisting of 20-30 turbines in the breakwater at the Cabrillo Beach fishing pier in San Pedro CA .

 

The only selling point for the project was that promoters were falsely claiming this project would save 70,000 barrels of oil and eliminate…

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Added by Jim Wiegand on September 2, 2016 at 1:03pm — 3 Comments

NREL: How Will The Eastern U.S. Accommodate More Wind And Solar?

"More Wind And Solar?"…

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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on September 1, 2016 at 12:52pm — 8 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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