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John Droz, Jr. - Energy & Environmental Newsletter: August 20, 2018

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:

A Trove Of New Research Spells Out The Folly Of Renewable Energy

The $2.5 trillion reason we can’t rely on batteries to clean up the grid

What Is The Cost Of Getting To A 100% “Renewable” Electric Grid?

Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid

Legal Power List identifies political risks for wind

NY local representative says wind turbine project has…

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Added by Long Islander on August 24, 2018 at 9:39pm — No Comments

Critics question plan for CMP power line through western Maine

Dot Kelly, a Sierra Club official in Maine, said she would rather see more emphasis on solar, wind and battery-storage technology.................

Jeremy Payne, executive director of the Maine Renewable Energy Association, said it is has “pretty significant concerns” about whether the plan will stymie the growth of new green power producers in Maine by tying up transmission capacity......................

The project “is going to bisect Maine,”…

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Added by Long Islander on August 24, 2018 at 6:30am — 1 Comment

Amazon makes a killing on electricity rates paid for by the rural poor

Amazon Web Services, the company's cloud computing business, is its fastest-growing and most profitable division, but it comes with a lot of upfront infrastructure costs and ongoing expenses, the biggest of which is electricity. Over the past two years, Amazon has almost doubled the size of its physical footprint worldwide, to 254 million square feet, including dozens of new data centers with vast fields of servers running 24/7. In at least two states, it's also negotiated with utilities and…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on August 23, 2018 at 1:06am — 3 Comments

AC/DC trans corridor

Over the past two weeks in two separate public meetings (The Forks and Jackman), CMP stated they would connect wind project to an AC line to accommodate wind development in western Maine/Moosehead Region. They would run a separate AC line in the currently proposed DC trans corridor. The results to the region would be devastating. We must stop the hydro line. If it gets denied, the likelihood of an AC line being approved is seriously diminished. 

Added by Richard McDonald/Saving Maine on August 22, 2018 at 11:46am — No Comments

Infowars Was Right: Facebook Using Chinese Communist ‘Social Score’ For Users

Any wind warrior who has had his opinion piece submissions rejected, online anti-wind comments removed and witnessed the mainstream media's incessant lying for the wind industry may wish to read this -- far worse censorship is in the works folks.

The goal of the program, known as Sesame Credit, is to create a docile, compliant citizenry by assigning “social scores” to citizens which ultimately creates self-imposed social control.

This is why Big Tech wants…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on August 21, 2018 at 6:00pm — 12 Comments

NextEra Says HQ Will Hurt Maine People Who Want Wind Projects

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While the CMP/HQ 1200 MW HVDC line is seeking approvals at the Maine DEP and PUC, it is also seeking approval of a power purchase agreement at the Massachusetts DPU (the equivalent of our PUC).  This attachment explains that if the CMP/HQ project is built, it…

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Added by Art Brigades on August 21, 2018 at 10:30am — 3 Comments

Interesting take from an Iowan Newspaper.

Wind power, jobs and the gullible

We often hear wind power is generating lots of jobs for Iowans. How true is this? Wind power is subsidized by taxpayers, because it cannot support itself or the jobs it claims without subsidies in the form of tax credits. This means we, the taxpayers, are paying for the jobs claimed by wind power. Check out the Production Tax Credit (Iowa Code 476C) if in doubt.…

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Added by Eskutassis on August 20, 2018 at 12:00pm — 4 Comments

Is NING Practicing Digital Ghettoization of the CTFWP website?

Comments please.

Added by arthur qwenk on August 19, 2018 at 4:59pm — 6 Comments

You Can't Censor the Electromagnetic Ether in the USA...Neither can you censor Wind Warrior speech!

Is NING Censoring Our Distribution?

Today’s internet utilizes radio spectrum from various sources, be they land based repeater, space based satellites etc. Radio Spectrum in the USA is governed by the Federal Communication Commission. Smart phones, cell phones and other  communicators all are radio devices of various radio spectrum modalities, utilizing electromagnetic  frequencies. Since the FCC does have jurisdiction over frequency allocation , fair use etc, is it…

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Added by arthur qwenk on August 18, 2018 at 3:00pm — 6 Comments

Al Gore Won’t Tell You Wind Power’s Dirty Secret

BY CILLIAN ZEAL 

JANUARY 23, 2018 AT 2:42AM

We’ve been told over and over again that wind power is one of the cleanest power sources on earth, all by people like Al Gore. And why wouldn’t it be?…

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Added by Eskutassis on August 18, 2018 at 8:50am — 6 Comments

Tucker Carlson Tonight - Wind Power, Big Tech Censorship and Other Important Issues (8/17/18)

Earlier tonight, as I always try to do, I watched Tucker Carlson Tonight at 8PM Eastern on FNC. Tonight was a special edition of the program titled "Inside the Issues" which took "a deeper dive into some of the biggest matters affecting American life today".

Fittingly, Mr. Carlson led off with an insightful and courageous segment examining the…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on August 17, 2018 at 11:00pm — 3 Comments

Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy? (Prager University)

Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclear energy, and even coal for our energy needs and environmental obligations? Alex Epstein of the Center for Industrial Progress explains.

https://www.prageru.com/videos/can-we-rely-wind-and-solar-energy

That said:…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on August 17, 2018 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

Energy Expert and Wind Critic Jim LaBrecque Running for State Senate

It is fair to say, if not for LaBrecque’s work, you would be paying more in energy bills than you are now.

LaBrecque has spent his time in the LePage Administration fighting against the wind and solar lobbies, and for energy policies that protect the environment while lowering your energy bills.

The carbon-mitigation specialist says he’s running…

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Added by Long Islander on August 17, 2018 at 3:00pm — No Comments

New Ruling: Solar Incentives Thrown a Curve Ball!

Maine’s top court says appeal of changes to solar incentives must go to lower court

It's time to dry up all incentives for all "renewable energy" sources.

Wind and solar have been around for as much as 40 years producing less than 10% of our national power, and still they want to be propped up by subsidies and tax credits. On a percentage basis, they get 40 times the benefits other producers…

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Added by Eskutassis on August 17, 2018 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

A bad energy gamble for Massachusetts

Take a look at what is happening in Massachusetts.

Groups like 350.org, founded by an activist named Bill McKibben, “uses online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions to oppose new coal, oil and gas projects, take money out of the companies that are heating up the planet, and build 100% clean energy solutions that work for all,” according to their website. They don’t mean in the future, when those new technologies might be reliable and profitable - they want it…

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Added by Long Islander on August 17, 2018 at 10:17am — No Comments

Officials ask CMP to compensate Franklin County as part of transmission line deal

A group of elected officials in Franklin County is not revealing what it has requested from Central Maine Power Co. as compensation for a proposed Canada-to-Massachusetts power line project that will cut through the county...........................In Somerset County, CMP also signed a separate memorandum of understanding with a conservation group for $22 million in mitigation payments that would help boost tourism and recreation.

More at: …

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Added by Long Islander on August 17, 2018 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Friends of Maine's Mountains Update on Canadian Hydro

Update on the CMP / Hydro Quebec Power Line

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Added by Long Islander on August 16, 2018 at 4:00pm — 5 Comments

Enviro group: Hydro contract bad for Maine

Whitewater Rafting in the Kennebec Gorge

Susan Ely, from the Natural Resource Council of Maine, is joining the Sierra Club and explains why the 145 mile transmission project is a financial scam by CMP will do nothing to reduce emissions and will destroy much of the wilderness of Maine. It is very clear that CMP is trying to usurp large amounts of cash…

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Added by Eskutassis on August 16, 2018 at 4:00pm — 5 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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