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In September, the city solicited bids to remove the wind turbine........The bidding process closed on Tuesday.

“We received only one bid and it was well above our initial estimate,” said Sutherland in an email on Wednesday. “We’re having an internal conversation now and are reviewing our purchasing policy to determine the best course of action.”…

Have you hired the enemy and will your lawyer quietly hand you over on a platter while taking all of your money?  I know there are several people in Maine that know exactly how it feels to be sold out by their lawyer in a wind energy case.                …

Whale Infra-Sound Death Watch

Two Years After An Increase In Whale Deaths Off The East Coast of US- Political Officials Continue To Rule Out Infra-Sound On Land and Sea

Ocean wind turbine construction is complete off Block Island, Rhode Island.

Onshore and offshore wind turbines give off…

With Congress contemplating a rewrite of the tax code, opponents of that deal are hoping to end those tax breaks early, putting the wind and solar industry on the defense. 

"A deal is a deal," American Wind Energy Association CEO Tom Kiernan told the Conservative Clean Energy Summit last week. "Just stick with that [production tax credit] phaseout."…

Citing the negative impact it could have on the Moosehead Lake region's efforts to rebrand itself as "America's Crown Jewel," Piscataquis County commissioners have signed a letter stating their unanimous opposition to the proposed Somerset Wind project.…

Modern day commercial megawatt wind turbines are operated by SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition).



Scada is a control system that uses computers and local area network data communications which also includes cell phones and laptops.



Massachusetts officials have put the wind turbine agenda ahead of health, security…

One of the more pernicious side-effects of the enormous government subsidies for renewable energy, Conca found, is that they actually increase the cost of energy. This cost, however, is transferred from the energy consumer to the taxpayer, “and so goes unnoticed by most Americans,” he stated.…

Picking winners and losers by the Feds  IS Over..Rule of Law Matters!

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/epa-chief-says-administration-roll-150239621.html

Currently, the ordinance requires a minimum setback of 2 miles from each wind tower to the closest point on any property line of nonparticipating parcels. Tower heights are limited to 250 feet, and decibel levels at the property line at night may not exceed 25 dBA.

A-weighted decibels, abbreviated dBA, are an expression of the relative loudness of sounds in air as perceived by the human ear. 

The requirements effectively ban wind projects in Bethel, according to town…

Sustainably minded Maine millennials juggle multiple jobs to make a living

“Everyone is overqualified,” she added. “We all do it for the mission.”

The mission is to make a better, more sustainable world and there are many ways to do that. For Gilbreath, it’s through food policy, for others it might be promoting clean energy.........…

First, I want to commend John Lippman for writing on of the best energy articles in the Valley News. The article is well organized and provides much information that likely was not known to many VN readers.

http://www.vnews.com/Elizabeth-Mine-Solar-Array-Sheds-Light-on-Economics-of-Electricity-12760723

Brightfields Development is developing a 7 MW-DC solar…