October 2016 Blog Posts (53)

I received notification (www.cleanenergyrfp.com) that the Evaluation Team has finalized its work and selected the winning bidders. The results will be announced in March 2017. Once the contracts are finalized, they will be sent to regulatory authorities for approval. 

It sounds as though the evaluation team's decisions affecting ratepayers will be made and communicated to the wind developers, but the public will be kept in the dark until the very last minute. This allows the wind developers maximum time to spring their surprise attack while giving everyday Mainers absolute minimum time to react to the news that an out sized wind factory is now targeted for their community. The government does not work for you; it works for…

Ever wonder why the press almost always lies to us about wind power via acts of commission and omission?…

When corruption rules .............Research is routinely rigged.

The annual estimated bird mortality from wind turbines in the US is claimed to be no more than 573,000. However I want to point out that this number used by the bird conservation groups, the media and Government agencies, was created from a culmination of fake industry studies using a variety of highly deceptive research methodology tricks.

Then using all this false data from the industry’s fake studies, a new…

Moosehead Region Futures Committee will host two informational meetings this week on the proposed wind power projects in the Moosehead Region. Meetings will be held in Jackman and Greenville on October 19 and 20, respectively, at 6:00 PM. Details are provided on the Facebook page.

The Icebreaker project is the first of what will end up being several hundred turbines placed on lake Erie.   Hundreds of massive wind turbines that will kill tens of thousands of birds annually are being planned for Lake Erie. Property values will also be greatly impacted.  

I can not emphasize this enough, the MO of this industry is to lie, lie again, pay others to lie for you and to keep on lying until the profits stop. It has been that way since 1985 when the results of first and…

President Obama and Congress…

To be sure , this is a metaphor, but when it comes to renewable energy, Massachusetts is finding out the hard way!  You can legislate anything you want - but if you are expecting the impossible - forget it!  Massachusetts requires 9450 gigawatts of renewable energy - And there is no way that is coming from wind or solar power as we in Maine know.  Hydro-power works - but transmission is still the problem!…

PISGAH'S LATEST MORPH AS OF OCTOBER 6, 2016

This is the latest MPUC submission of ownership structure from Pisgah Mountain, LLC to justify their request to maintain their community based standing and their $93/MWH power purchase agreement with Bangor Hydro, now Emera:

Pisgah Mountain, LLC…

Grafton and Windham Vermont are experiencing the worst that wind energy can bring to a community. Imagine if John Baldacci gets his way in Maine and Iberdrola, now called Avangrid, is allowed to both deliver and produce energy in Maine!

https://vtdigger.org/2016/10/02/graftons-biggest-taxpayer-says-no-turbine-plans/…

When corruption rules the public is fed lies. One of these lies is that the Altamont Pass area has largest density of breeding Golden Eagles in the world. This myth was made up from bogus wind industry research.

Altamont is important because this wind energy site has been slaughtering golden eagles for decades. In 2015 the USGS published a report that estimated the eagle population to be approximately 280 pairs in a 2000 square mile region around Altamont. They came to this conclusion…

Wind warriors - ever wonder how woefully hard it is for truth, justice and the American way to prevail over propaganda by paid off politicians, media and environmental groups in the wind battle?

Some of the answer is right here, excerpted from a Wikileaked email sent to campaign manager John Podesta from Bill Ivey, the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts in the late 90's.

"And as I’ve mentioned, we’ve all been quite content to demean…