We need to teach the real message early. Wind is already planting the wrong message in our young!

http://www.sunjournal.com/news/oxford-hills/2011/11/18/bethel-woodstock-students-take-field-trip-study-energy-sources/1117272

The UMPI turbine is working! After 200 days of down time in 2011!  In tha past week some 17,000+ mWh were generated and sold to the grid, addording to the website..  Furthur work is ongoing, to get the site reporting all promised data.

Harrison Roper  Houlton/Danforth

  I would like to recomend the independent film  "Windfall" Produced by Laura Isreal

 http://windfallthemovie.com/index_1.html

  I believe what is highlighted in the film is the covert way that wind developers operate.  Targetting elected officials with large tracts of land,ignoring the majority of people who will have to live in the shadows of turbines owned by utility companies and billionaire investors.

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Update on 11/14/11 - Peru Voters Overwhelmingly Approve Wind Moratorium

The voting results for the 180-day moratorium in Peru have been obtained by a resident of Peru who called the Peru Town Office and specifically asked about the final count and was told 466-129 in favor of a moratorium.

This adds to the …

I was at UMPI this afternoon ( Sunday November 13) for a rehearsal. The turbine was actually turning - but no data was posted on the website, which has the same old zeroes and the statement: "Last weekend......primary months" that has been posted for 208 continuous days.

  Maybe it is working, or maybe it is just coasting in neutral, or maybe it is using grid energy to turn itself  - it is a mystery, and the website tells us nothing.

Harrison Roper  Houlton/Danforth

http://windenergy.areavoices.com

      Just days before the final PUC siting hearing Goodhue Wind AWA posted environmental studies that they conducted.  These studies find that American Bald Eagles and Loggerhead Shrikes exist throughout the project area.  Their conclusions that their project will not adversely affect these protected avian species are questionable.  Their speculation that since Loggerhead Shrikes fly low…

Let’s be honest, the Maine Citizens for Clean Energy initiative is all about forcing mountaintop wind power on Maine. The coalition is not a citizens group but a collaboration of Maine’s wind development lobbyists in disguise. It’s bad enough that the NRCM has chosen to mire itself deeper into its commitment to mountaintop wind development — even more so that it is teaming with corporate wind development interests whose singular goal is to turn mountaintops into cash.

The parties to…

Frankfort residents pass strict wind ordinance

Please also see:   http://www.windtaskforce.org/page/smart-meters

Press Release from Smart Meter Safety Coalition:

Smart Meters: A Closer Look,  Smart Meter Safety Coalition

Thursday, November…

So, here we go, into the strange new world where sometimes, when the wind blows just right, all those hundreds or thousands of usually unproductive turbines in an area spring to life and a huge surge of wind energy goes to the grid.  This article below is from the New York Times.  I have done some highlights in red.  Wind power meets overbuilding capacity meets Big Brother.

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The following is excerpted from an article in today's Portland Press-Herald.

While he is continuing to focus on welfare reform, LePage said he will also look to make changes in education, the economy and energy.

He discouraged people from signing a petition that is likely to be found at polling places on Tuesday that would require Maine's utilities to get 20 percent of their power from renewable…

Each January the Governor's Office of Energy  and Security reports to the legislature on the State's progress in achieving the goals of the Expedited Wind Law - 2007  S.661.   This year the legislature required the GOES to expand its review to include the following,  otherwise known as the "Fitts Amendment" to LD 1366.

Public input will be essential to counteract the pro-wind bias that is contained in this amendment.…

Nov 1, 2011 4:03pm

Candidates Contrast on Energy Subsidies at Iowa Forum

11/1/11

Column: Will Occupy target green cronyism, too?