October 2015 Blog Posts (79)

"WE ARE IN THE CUSP OF GREATNESS" Really???

CEO of AWEA touts the installation of new wind projects in 2015 - Nearly 3600 MW of capacity - But how much real production?

https://cleantechnica.com/2015/10/23/us-wind-industry-installed-3600-mw-far-year-still-faces-policy-uncertainty/

Added by Pineo Girl on October 26, 2015 at 1:08pm — 1 Comment

HUMOR: Cause and Effect?

HUMOR:

Having sat through one too many student statistical presentations, I recently noticed a striking ''correlation''.

There is nearly a perfect alignment to the traditional global warming hockey stick. Therefore, I suggest that the current apparent rise in global temperature referred to as the hockey stick is a…

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Added by Ellin Beltz on October 26, 2015 at 11:05am — No Comments

This is the conflict that frustrated Angus King and pushed John Baldacci to concoct the Expedited Wind Law

In 2006 Angus King testified in favor of the wind project in Reddington Nubble , le lost ,he got really frustrated ...so did John Baldacci ...the rest is history.

please see both articles in this post 

Q. How has the transition from governor to wind developer gone so far? How does being ex-governor help or hinder your efforts?

A. I was already 4 years out of office before starting Independence Wind, and I never dreamed of having anything to do with wind during…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on October 26, 2015 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Monsanto founded MEMC in 1959 that aquired SunEdison in 2009 "a Tale of Two Companies"

Great article about SunEdison!

MEMC and SunEdison, a Tale of Two Companies

October 23, 2015
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Added by Barbara Durkin on October 25, 2015 at 10:02pm — No Comments

"Dead Cat Bounce Stock"

While Green Generation stock prices go down

http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=SUNE

Conserving power products such as LED lighting by CREE is up

http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=CREE

Though their…

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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on October 25, 2015 at 12:45pm — No Comments

And this all started when the RPS law designed by Angus King passed in 1999 !!!

Angus King , a man with a vision , passed the first RPS law in the nation in 1999 !!!

Maine was the greenest state in N.E. 

The law was improved  in 2012 , then gave birth to the Expedited law in  February 2008 , just 6 months before, King had started Record HiLL Wind LLC and put on his " the sky is falling , Maine will collapse  by 2020 if we do not jump on the Renewable wagon " dog and pony show on the road and in the media and academic circles " .....gas prices…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on October 25, 2015 at 12:30pm — 6 Comments

You only have to know that the author of this piece also writes for The Fantasy Book Review.

US Wind Industry Installed 3,600 MW So Far This Year, Still Faces Policy Uncertainty

We can only hope that the PTC fails to pass and slows down this fantasy train.…

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Added by Eskutassis on October 23, 2015 at 6:25pm — 1 Comment

The Vermont ideologues are changing their tune! Stay Tuned .

“Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. ( Saul Alinsky )"

Looks like the PSB is applying Rule Number 8 from Saul Alinsky .....renewables in Vermont not really about global warming .....it is about jobs , stable electricity prices , stable economy . ...

Chris Recchia, indeed as Vermonters get more and more educated about the…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on October 23, 2015 at 1:30pm — 4 Comments

JOIN THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT TO RESTORE WATERPOWER AS THE BEST RENEWABLE

Securing our nation’s clean energy future means unlocking the potential of hydropower to fight climate change. http://www.unlockhydro.org/ ;

Added by Frank J. Heller, MPA on October 23, 2015 at 12:54pm — No Comments

Gov LePage's Energy Office Director Seemingly Supports EDPR's Number Nine Wind Project

Energy Office Director writes a letter which seemingly endorses EDPR's project because it gives $2 million to help Aroostook County with their heating bills. Quite frankly, for a project of this size -- the largest in the state, $2 million is nothing. It thus seems like nothing more than a FACE SAVING MEASURE so that the Governor's Energy Office can break policy which includes opposing wind because …

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Added by Long Islander on October 22, 2015 at 2:30am — No Comments

Wind builders bet on extension of federal tax credits in project planning

Congress still has the PTC up in the air between the House and Senate for this year.  It is still not to late to mount a letter writing campaign to our Senators and Congressmen and let them know the truth about wind.  It might also help to get some editorials and Letters to the Editor in the local press.  We have to let these people know the truth.…

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Added by Eskutassis on October 21, 2015 at 12:37pm — 3 Comments

Defendants still protesting convictions in wind farm fraud

These scam artists are so vile that they not only steal from the taxpayers as a whole, but from individual investors, old people and their retirement accounts.  How is it that they can make such a losing proposition sound like such a bed of roses.…

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Added by Eskutassis on October 21, 2015 at 12:13pm — 2 Comments

BDN - Get Out the Wind Shill Wipers for George Smith .... Again

Kurt Adams, SunEdison’s senior vice president and a guy I have known and admired for many years, explained, “We have deep roots in Maine, many of us live here and we value the state as a special place that is worthy of protection.” Kurt said SunEdison’s folks “are excited” to be working with conservation and environmental groups “to preserve the state’s open…

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Added by Long Islander on October 20, 2015 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

HAWAII JUST ENDED NET METERING FOR SOLAR...is wind next?

Hawaii Just Ended Net Metering for Solar. Now What?

October 19, 2015
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Added by Frank J. Heller, MPA on October 20, 2015 at 10:03am — 4 Comments

The Bingham Settlement

This is what will be playing soon at the Bingham project. Hundreds of bald eagles and untold thousands of other highly protected species will be killed by this project. But you will not hear about it from the Green Nazi's.

Added by Jim Wiegand on October 19, 2015 at 11:21pm — 4 Comments

Our View: Compromise on Maine wind project offers model for land funds dispute

A PPH Editorial tries to make the FMM/SunEdison deal sound like a plus for both and a good compromise.  It is like putting lipstick on a pig!  I really think Sun Ed got the best of the deal and made FMM look like they had to buckle.  I only hope it may slow things down a bit.  Of course the biggest brakes that could be applied would be an end to the tax subsidies.…

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Added by Eskutassis on October 19, 2015 at 1:27pm — 3 Comments

DEP AND BINGHAM WIND/ FMM SETTLEMENT - NOTHING TO DO WITH NOTHING!

The following is a copy of am email  from DEP regarding the Bingham/FMM settlement:

Mark Bergeron asked that I respond to your inquiry.  The agreement made between Friends of Maine’s Mountains and SunEdison is between those two parties.  The Department does not have any role in the deal that the two parties reached.  

 

The Department Order requires that Blue Sky West, LLC provide decommissioning funds in the amount of at least…

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Added by Pineo Girl on October 19, 2015 at 12:40pm — 5 Comments

TAKE A CLOSER LOOK - WAS THE BINGHAM SETTLEMENT REALLY FOR MAINERS - OR KURT ADAMS SWAN SONG?

The agreement struck between FMM and Sun Edison appears at first glance to benefit Maine Environmental groups - But take closer look at some of the recipients - The Trust for Public Land - Check out the Maine Advisory Board under about us and Advisory Boards - Neil Kiely, former First Wind employee now with Androscoggin Bank, Angus King III, Sun Edison employee, and David Wilby, Sun Edison Director of External Affairs and Angus King crony.…

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Added by Pineo Girl on October 16, 2015 at 3:06pm — 10 Comments

EMERA SAYS TRANSMISSION UPGRADES FOR MAINERS - BUT WE KNOW BETTER!!!

The Maine PUC is reviewing Emera's plans to upgrade transmission lines - Will our new PUC see through this ruse?

http://www.mainebiz.biz/article/20151013/NEWS0101/151019999

Added by Pineo Girl on October 16, 2015 at 2:21pm — No 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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