Citizen's Task Force opinion noted regarding EDP Renewables:

https://www.kallanishenergy.com/2016/12/12/developer-drops-plan-119-turbine-wind-farm-maine/

While tornadoes were found to have taken down three transmission lines ahead of the blackout, the report suggests the system could have continued operating.

Instead it was the loss of power from the state’s wind farms that is thought to be one of the primary causes of the event.

The AEMO said a protection feature built-in to some wind farms, which the agency was not aware of before the blackout, caused some of them to reduce their output after a certain number of voltage…

By John Droz, Jr. -- December 12, 2016

The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).…

Maine is an incredibly beautiful state. The views from Rumford Whitecap, which has a sub-alpine ecosystem at one of the lowest altitudes in Maine, are incredible. From Rumford Whitecap, the summit of which was protected by The Mahoosuc Land Trust, the view is marred by the Record Hill Wind project, seen here, as well as Spruce Mt. Wind in Woodstock and Saddleback Ridge Wind in Carthage.

We must stop the ravaging of Maine's natural and scenic resources by the wind industry. It is long…

Part I

There has been no compassion or relief. Officers charged by law with protecting the public health ignore or bluntly turn away concerns......please also view the complete and highly clear, peer-reviewed, easily readable review of health related wind turbine impact studies over 40 years, by Drs Jerry Punch and Rick James: The Negative Health Impact of Noise from Industrial Wind Turbines: The Evidence. It is our assessment that this document is really a…

Wind farms, giant wind turbines in clusters, will save the environment and produce electricity at no more than conventional sources.…

It looks more and more like the swamp is going to be drained.

From ABC News  12/9/2016

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team appears to be compiling a roster of names of Energy Department staff members, including career civil servants, who worked on plans to cut carbon emissions, according to a questionnaire obtained by ABC…

November 2016

Attorney General Mills: Gut the First Amendment

By Jon Reisman

The Maine legislature will be electing constitutional officers in December. The expected candidacy and reelection of Democrat Attorney General Janet Mills will have important and far reaching implications for climate change policy, freedom of speech and association, partisan temperatures and the 2018 gubernatorial election.

Mills, daughter of a prominent western Maine family, has served…

President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of…

At a meeting Friday in the Capitol Plaza Hotel, Stephen Ambrose, a sound consultant and member of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering, argued that sound levels permitted in Vermont are too high and are causing sleeplessness, distress and other health-related symptoms.…

Personnel is policy, as they say, and despite his meeting with the High Priest of Climatology, Al Gore, president-elect Donald Trump’s pick of Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt to be the new head at EPA, shows Trump is serious about pulling back the curtain to expose climate fraud, leaving climate zealots as unsettled as the alleged “science” they trumpet.…

1603 Program: Payments for Specified Energy Property in Lieu of Tax Credits

"The purpose of the 1603 payment is to reimburse eligible applicants for a portion of the cost of installing specified energy property used in a trade or business or for the production of income. A 1603 payment is made after the energy property is placed in service; a 1603 payment is not made prior to or during construction of the energy property".

If you go to the following website and then…

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to pick Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers to head the Interior Department, according to presidential transition team sources.

McMorris Rodgers is the highest-ranking Republican woman in the House and serves as vice-chair for Trump’s transition team. Trump is expected to name McMorris Rodgers as his Interior secretary pick, a senior transition team official told CNBC Friday.

Republicans want the next Interior pick to focus on…

Trump team questions EIA staff on added costs to transmit and back-up wind power (Bloomberg)

The group also questions whether any technologies or products that have emerged from Energy Department programs “are currently offered in the market without any subsidy” ........

The Energy Information Administration, the department’s statistical arm, is the subject of at least 15 questions that probe its staffing, data and analytical decisions,…

Trump’s loathing for renewables — especially bat-slicing, bird-chomping eco-crucifixes — is deep and personal.

Trump hates wind farms because they ruined the countryside round his golf courses in Scotland. When he met Nigel Farage recently, he urged him to campaign against them.…