December 2014 Blog Posts (48)

believe in America again?

Believe in America again?

Can a citizen of Maine appeal any agency decisions? YES! Become an interested party of the project you are interested in.  Make comments where you have knowledge of projects’ impacts.

If the projects’ impact is still adverse in the permit then appeal the agencies final action.

Take the appeal to a higher court.

My experience in this procedure was un-expectantly pleasant.  The clerk of Maine Judicial Supreme Courts in Portland Maine walked…

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Added by alice mckay barnett on December 4, 2014 at 8:21am — 1 Comment

US House passes 1-year extension of main wind industry tax incentive

House sends one-year tax extenders to Senate – Wind

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Added by Long Islander on December 3, 2014 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment

Dan Remian: “Change the Maine wind law”

The official title of the Citizens Initiative (CI) is: 

AN ACT TO REPEAL AND AMEND SECTIONS OF THE EXPEDITED WIND ENERGY ACT TO CHANGE THE PERMITTING CRITERIA  FOR WIND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT

Please read Dan Remian's full piece at:

http://www.friendsofmainesmountains.org/

Added by Long Islander on December 3, 2014 at 1:00pm — No Comments

BDN - Bids are in to determine Maine electricity rates for 2015, but sticker shock awaits

Astute reader comment: "The mandates for green energy have everything to do with skyrocketing electricity cost. When non-dispatchable energy sources grab market share at subsidized rates they force other generators to reduce annual capacity factors. This market disruption leads to operations at below their annual economic break-even points. These operators than close their operations leaving ISO-NE short of necessary Base Load capacity. The auction for capacity…

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Added by Long Islander on December 3, 2014 at 12:15am — 2 Comments

Production Tax Credit Renewal Being Pushed Hard by Wind Industry

As everyone expected, a full court press is happening with the wind industry and their cronies in Congress, trying desperately to get the Production Tax Credit renewed and extended.    They have joined the others in the pack of taxpayer funding thieves to get a broad "Extender" bill passed.  You can help stop this. 

Friends of Maine's Mountains has set up a letter opposing the PTC extension that you can electronically "sign".

To view the letter, click here: …

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Added by Brad Blake on December 2, 2014 at 11:30pm — No Comments

A FEW EXCERPTS AND COMMENTS FROM A 2004 REPORT FROM THE MAINE PUC TO THE EUT COMMITTEE

In 2003, the hands of Government enter the deregulated electric market:

NOTE THE DIRECTIVE " to consult with entities with expertise or substantial interest in the promotion of renewable resources "

In Dixfield, that means consulting the wind developer on the proper writing of an ordinance .…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 2, 2014 at 9:22am — 1 Comment

Al Diamon: Sussman? What Sussman?

If It’s About the Owner, It’s Not News

by Al Diamon

NOTE: This is a story that all media in the state should be reporting on especially considering Maine Today Media is owned by 25% of our delegation in Washington, D.C. 

http://thebollard.com/2014/12/02/media-mutt-127/

Added by Long Islander on December 2, 2014 at 8:30am — No Comments

Professor: MPBN must disclose its wind industry underwriters when reporting on wind

Disclose or else (appears about 2/3's of the way down).

NOTE: When the taxpayer funded media adjusts its journalism for pay, we really need to think about pulling the plug on their funding - both from tax dollars and from personal contributions.

by Al Diamon…

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Added by Long Islander on December 2, 2014 at 8:30am — No Comments

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Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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