By Seamus Othot

November 8, 2023

Updated:November 8, 2023

Maine’s electrical utilities will not be seized by the state and placed under the control of a quasi-governmental body following the overwhelming rejection of Question 3 by Maine voters on Tuesday.

Question 3 asked Mainers “Do you want to create a new power company governed by an elected board to acquire and operate existing for-profit electricity transmission and distribution facilities in…

November 8, 2023

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Joshua Abram Kercsmar is an early American historian and associate professor of Environmental Humanities at Unity Environmental University. He also serves as vice president of Preserve Rural Maine.

BY JOSHUA ABRAM KERCSMAR

If LS Power’s “Aroostook Renewable Gateway” project is truly Maine’s “gateway to progress,” we should expect it to innovate in ways that speed the state toward meeting its climate…

With the clarity of this day after the referendum, and with the sanity of Maine voters revealed, (despite incessant propaganda efforts to paint us as supporters of green idiocy), here's a reminder of just how out of touch NRCM is with the average Mainer:

NRCM statement on Question…

Despite the fact that the carbon tax applied to fossil fuel generation has tripled in the last 7 years, Natural Gas-fired generation is 4% above the average electrical production since the inception of RGGI.

The PUC calculated that RGGI costs added 0.2 cents per kilowatt hour to ratepayer bills in 2016 and this year is 0.58 cents per kilowatt hour or $2.91 per month per 500 kilowatt hours consumed.

The Natural Resources Council of Maine, Conservation Law Foundation, Acadia Center, Maine Audubon, The Natural Conservancy, and Maine Conservation Voters jointly submit the attached letter. In this letter, we urge the Commission to work toward a successful conclusion to the negotiation of a Transmission Services Agreement for the Aroostook Renewable Gateway transmission project. This project is designed to unlock the significant onshore wind potential that exists in…

Nick Pope on November 5, 2023

The past week has been marked by worrying developments for the state of the green energy industry, suggesting that President Joe Biden’s sweeping climate agenda could be imperiled.

Offshore wind companies are cancelling projects and executives are sounding the alarm on the state of the industry, while solar companies and…

John Droz, Jr: Media Balance Newsletter: November 6, 2023

Please click on the following link to read the following stories and much, much more:

https://election-integrity.info/Newsletter/2023/Media_Balance_Newsletter-11-6-23.pdf

*** Wind industry confirms Great Green Lie

*** Collapse of…

EXPENSIVE FLOATING OFFSHORE WINDMILLS IN IMPOVERISHED STATE OF MAINE

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/floating-offshore-wind-systems-in-the-impoverished-state-of-maine

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ISO-NE has a new, creative way to make intermittent solar become dispatchable. No, ISO-NE doesn't plan to make the sun shine at will. READ:

The war in Ukraine is becoming more desperate by the day. Ukrainian troops are surrendering en masse, depletion of fighting men is accelerating with a number of Russian assaults along the entire front - the bravado of fighting for your sacred homeland has worn off. People are running away from the newest forced mobilization campaign that includes women 18-45 and men up to the age of 60. So, in attempt to stem the bleeding and find new recruits (meat), the Kiev regime, and specifically it's…

"According to recent reports filed by CMP and Versant Power, the net ratepayer costs of NEB projects that are already operational are more than $125 million per year.1 The OPA estimates that the cost will rise to approximately $220 million per year once additional projects are completed.…