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Is Angus King & Yale's Record Hill Wind Project Living up to the Promises it Used to get $102 million Loan Guarantee from U.S. DOE?

A concerned Maine resident and U.S. citizen and taxpayer has just provided the following bit of analysis:

From September, 2016:

Record Hill Wind missed the filing deadline again with FERC for 2Q2016 (it was 8/31). I have to believe that they are in serious financial trouble. The ISO-NE Average Wholesale Energy rate for 2Q2016 was $23.39 MWH. In 2013 it was $40.74 MWH and in 2014 it was $38.18 MWH. Kibby reported an average rate for 2Q2016 of $20.42 and Stetson 1…

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Added by Long Islander on June 15, 2017 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

"Saintly" Senator Angus King Singled Out on Fox News Channel's "SwampWatch"

King's $102 million loan guarantee was singled out on the new Fox News Channel program, The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton, on Sunday, 6/11/2017

The video of the program is at the link below in a segment on "The Green Lobby" at the 33 minute and 30 second mark. The part on King begins at the 36 minute and 30 second mark.…

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Added by Long Islander on June 14, 2017 at 11:30pm — 1 Comment

Saco looking to get rid of wind turbine

The wind turbine has never come close to generating amount of energy promised, and Entegrity Wind went bankrupt in 2009.

The wind turbine is in need of repair and was shut down last year due to safety concerns, said City Administrator Kevin Sutherland.

The city’s Energy Committee and city staff have recommended getting rid of the wind turbine, and putting it out to bid to see if someone will purchase it for scrap material.

Howard Carter, chairman of the city’s Energy…

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Added by Long Islander on June 14, 2017 at 10:00pm — 4 Comments

John Droz: Energy & Environmental Newsletter: June 12, 2017

Sample articles:

Human Health, Rights and Wind Turbine Deployment

A startling case of two schools in proximity to wind turbines

Wind company dealt blow by Indiana Supreme Court

Wind developer stonewalls efforts for independent noise tests

Significant Vermont Public Service Board Appointment

“Analysis of turbine aerodynamic sound noise…”

“Assessment of turbine noise effects on the general health of staff…”

Freedom from Unwarranted…

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Added by Long Islander on June 14, 2017 at 9:52am — No Comments

Canadian Wind Farm dismantled....didn't last as long as vendors predicted!

The oldest commercial wind power facility in Canada has been shut down and faces demolition after 23 years of transforming brisk southern Alberta breezes into electricity — and its owner says building a replacement depends on the next moves of the provincial NDP government.

TransAlta Corp. said Tuesday the blades on 57 turbines at its Cowley Ridge facility near Pincher Creek have already been halted and the towers are to be toppled and recycled for scrap metal this spring. The…

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Added by Frank J. Heller, MPA on June 14, 2017 at 9:45am — No Comments

"An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Determination of a Wind Energy Development's Effect on the Scenic Character of Maine's Special Places"

The Governor's veto of this bill was sustained by the legislature today.

The Governor's veto is here:

LD%20901.pdf

STATE OF MAINE…
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Added by Long Islander on June 13, 2017 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

COMPARISON OF EMISSIONS OF COWS AND LIGHT DUTY VEHICLES (car, SUV, minivan, ¼-ton pick-up)

In this article it is shown, the direct emissions of methane and CO2 of the world’s 3.6 billion ruminants is 6.939 billion metric ton of CO2 equivalent per year, and of the world’s 1.0 billion light duty vehicles is 4.830 billion Mt CO2 eq./y; ruminant emissions are about 43.7% greater than LDVs.

 

Additional ruminant related emissions are due to pasturing, feeding, processing, packaging, selling, etc. of meat and dairy products. For example, in the US, the life cycle CO2 eq.…

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Added by Willem Post on June 13, 2017 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Oklahoma Former Gov Frank Keating : Wind Turbines A Mistake -60 Sec Ad

Frank Keating Wind Turbines “Big Mistake” 60 Sec Ad
https://youtu.be/XdpyPa83IIw

Subject: Oklahoma's Former Governor, Frank Keating Admits Wind Turbine " Mistakes "…



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Added by Frank Haggerty on June 12, 2017 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

VOTE TO BE HELD TOMORROW ON UMAINE OFFSHORE WIND BOND

Tomorrow, slipped quietly in an off election, Mainers get to vote on the $50 million dollar bond to be used to help fund the Aqua Ventus offshore wind project.  Please vote NO and save our birds!

 

https://www.mainersforjobgrowth.com/

Added by Pineo Girl on June 12, 2017 at 11:20am — 4 Comments

Ultimate Insider: GE’s Windy Jeff Immelt stepping down as CEO

GE under Immelt:

It also invested more heavily in new technologies, including a recent $1.65 billion acquisition of LM Wind Power, a Denmark-based manufacturer of rotor blades for wind turbines.

http://www.pressherald.com/2017/06/12/ges-immelt-stepping-down-as-ceo/

May 22, 2017…

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Added by Long Islander on June 12, 2017 at 9:00am — No Comments

COMPARISON OF GRID-CONNECTED AND OFF-THE-GRID HOUSES

National Energy Systems are Wasteful: About 75% of the fossil energy taken out of the ground to generate electricity never reaches the end user as electricity due to various losses from mine or well to user’s meter, and due to changes in embedded energy due to repairs, replacements, enhancements, expansion, etc., of the various systems, from mine or well to meter, plus, for a more inclusive approach, the energy required for the various other activities of the power industry-government…

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Added by Willem Post on June 11, 2017 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

State Of Vermont Proposes Cape Cod Commission 10x Wind Setback

Vermont Proposes Cape Cod Commission Wind Turbine Setbacks 10 X Times…

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Added by Frank Haggerty on June 10, 2017 at 9:50am — 1 Comment

4 Things Globalists Think You’re Too Stupid To Understand

Attempts to “fight climate change” have two things in common:

The Paris Agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, Copenhagen — all “climate” agreements packaged and marketed to the great unwashed only several years apart from each other. America said “Hell no” to all three of these agreements, even if a president’s pen got overeager.

Every one of these alleged attempts to “fight climate change” have two things in common: First, the U.S. is…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on June 9, 2017 at 2:28pm — 2 Comments

California's "renewable power" mandate is a scandal waiting to happen

Renewable power and state…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on June 9, 2017 at 5:43am — 2 Comments

Proof of Interior Department Fraud and Collusion

On the Federal Wind industry guidelines, there is a short discussion about the Altamont Pass wind turbines and the impact they have had on the regional golden eagle population. None of it is true.  Also not true are the all the reports to the public that the Altamont Pass area reportedly has largest density of breeding Golden Eagles in the world. Sadly, this…

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Added by Jim Wiegand on June 8, 2017 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Maine's Mike Brakey tells the truth about "Global Warming'

Some real science is below.Anthropomorphic global warming is entirely in the temperature corrections.

It is all about fudged data Brakey found . The cooking of climate data. NOAA was caught rewriting us temperature history (again). Engineering Physicist /Heat transfer specialist Mike Brakey (from Maine!)

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Added by arthur qwenk on June 6, 2017 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Paris climate accord participants threaten to keep polluting unless they’re paid

Supporters of the deal routinely point out that 193 countries have signed on. Although that is technically true, the vast majority of commitments offered in Paris would result in emissions increases or would require billions of dollars in funding — or, in many cases, both.

“Claiming that 193 countries signed on is a meaningless statement, which is likely why it’s made. The meaningful way to view it is that 193 countries agreed…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on June 5, 2017 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

Massachusetts Wind Turbine Noise Hearing June 6 2017

Massachusetts Wind Turbine Noise Hearing June 6 2017…



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Added by Frank Haggerty on June 5, 2017 at 2:26pm — 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

******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********

(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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