The IPCC lists Bangladesh as the country most at risk from climate change.  But guess what?  Bangladesh is shifting its electricity generation from expensive imported gas to cheap domestic coal in order to increase its GDP.   “Bangladesh’s short-term economic and political costs resulting from not using its coal for the generation of electricity are far higher than the longer term costs resulting from climate change. This also explains why there are no specific plans for using the more…

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By Jim Wiegand

"I am an employee at a wind farm. I would like to speak with somebody about eagle deaths that I have seen and reported.  Please…

Oil slumps 6 percent to near seven-year low on OPEC inaction, dollar

 

By Barani Krishnan8 minutes…

Does anyone know where this "Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions" gets their funding?

This outfit that has been running TV commercials, presumably at great expense, touting the fact that Senator Susan Collins supports wind energy, i.e., using her misguided support to legitimize this useless power source.

See:

https://www.youtube.com/user/CitizensFor

Please see their…

Below please find a copy of a call to action and alert sent to us from our friends in New Hampshire.  We all need to ask Congress not to fund the wind production tax credit now!

Dec 6, 2015

Call them hedge fund hotels or financial engineering Frankensteins, their complexity and leverage are being looked at with fresh eyes by both rank-and-file investors and hedge fund billionaires.…

There is no doubt that "Unique Circumstances" allowed this beneficial decision for PPDLW to stand.

Are all other wind projects in Maine now on the fast track?

KILL PL-661 . pack BEP with pro scenic quality Maine folks, and get DEP away  from rubber stamping projects?

The Fight Continues unfortunately.

Who is the "Supreme Judge" as to   what is beautiful about each area of this unique state?

Unless the citizens get much more active in the aesthetic…

http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/maine-court-interprets-wind-energy-law-87042/

Maine court interprets wind energy law

Maine's highest court has issued an opinion interpreting Maine's laws governing wind energy project development. The opinion is noteworthy for its analysis of two areas of Maine wind energy law -- those designed to expedite the…

What the president reportedly hides behind the curtain is his alliances with international green elites, a select group of political and Wall Street cronies, and energy regulatory czars who have orchestrated a CO2 carbon-taxing scheme that would put billions of dollars into their own pockets. A regulatory structure is being assembled through federal agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).…

Start at the 2:00 minute mark. The wind industry can not be happy with Donald Trump. He has had personal experience with fighting two wind projects and as he states in this video "I know a lot about wind". As we know, the more one knows about wind, the less they like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGEzFbRl-g8

Please send to a friend.

Date of video: 12/3/15

Please be sure to read both of these articles on a huge victory for the Maine environment and the average citizen. And a crushing defeat for SunEdison / First Wind.

The Court upheld the Board of Environmental Protection's (BEP's) conclusion that the project's sixteen turbines would have "an unreasonable adverse effect on the scenic character and existing uses related to the scenic character” of nine of the lakes which the State recognizes as "Scenic Resources of State or…

This morning the Maine Supreme Judicial Court issued its decision denying Champlain Wind LLC's appeal concerning a permit for its Bowers Wind Project in Carroll Plt and Kossuth Twp. Champlain Wind is a subsidiary of Maine's largest wind developer, First Wind. The decision marks the end of a six year process of hearings and appeals which pitted the wind developer against local residents, professional guides, traditional sporting camp owners and loyal visitors to Maine's famed Downeast Lakes…