Bigger Cities Aren't Always Greener, Data Show

By Amber Williams | Aug 18, 2015

Here is a photo taken in Kingsbury. This is the first pad to be poured with cement.

SunEdison's House of Cards Is Starting to Crumble

Falling stock prices and rising interest rates are making SunEdison a tough bet for investors.…

Moosehead Lake is simply astounding, truly a natural treasure. The iconic Mt. Kineo rises dramatically from the vast lake. The view from the top encompasses the blue water surrounded by verdant forest and the ancient Appalachian Mountains. Enjoy the vistas in this video, then envision the lake encircled with 50 story wind turbines on every available ridge. Please speak out against the destruction of this unique region that deserves national park status, not industrial wasteland…

I wish all the legislators and congresspeople would read these and believe what they say.  It is VERY revealing.

http://www.strata.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Full-Report-True-Cost-of-Wind1.pdf…

OPINION:

I would like it if wind bloggers learn how to preview and proofread before hitting "PUBLISH POST"  multiple times on a single article.

I don't get my email on a cellphone so my anger quotient isn't as high as those who do... but there have been days I've logged in…

Mark W. Anderson, a 35 year professor of economics at U Maine has figured out the real economics behind the "Renewable" energy policies we have been led to believe are going to save our country.  This is one of the first academics I have heard tell the real truth.  …

This recent photo of the wind turbines on Lowell Mountain in northern Vermont in a lightning storm provokes the thoughts of the dangers of forest fires as these machines are erected throughout heavily forested areas in northern New England.  We know the turbines have lightning rods, but so have the thousands of barns that have burned down after lightning struck their rods.  If not properly maintained, lightning rods are simply ornaments, not protection.  A lightning strike on a turbine not…

They are thinking that Offshore Wind might still make it in Maine.  That is after all the other three that were chosen over Maine failed because they could not make electricity economically enough to get contracts from distribution companies.  The Windies just won't give up their quest to reap government money whether or not it helps the environment and how much it really hurts the economy.…

This is a video and a little long, but worth watching.  

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/20/cramer-mea-culpa-why-i-was-wrong-on-sunedison.html

The amount of interplay among the officials looking after the citizens and the big businesses they are regulating isn't limited to Maine.  Massachusetts Clean Energy Center CEO Alicia Barton has jumped ship for greener pastures at Sun Edison.  Read below…

Dixfield area residents have made it clear they don't want wind turbines that make more noise at night than 35 decibels.  Patriot Renewables says it is not feasible to build turbines like that so they are pushing to get the levels raised.  DON'T DO IT DIXFIELD!!!!!  YOU WON'T BE HAPPY.  Keep the Colonel Holman Mountain Ridge pristine!…

Maine is as cotrrupt as it gets in the 50 states.....A great read  and not a novel at all.

"Some of America’s most corrupt politicians can be found in the windswept wilds of Maine. The Pine Tree State rates next-to-last in citizens’ trust of their legislators according to the Gallup Poll (April 4, 2014), and the Center for Public Integrity gives the state an F for corruption. Maine politicians appropriate taxpayer funds for their own companies, while…

Dixfield Planning Board table discussion on wind ordinance until Sept. 3

....“I hoped that Mr. Carroll would be here so that he and the town could maybe find a number between 35 decibels and 42 decibels that would work for everyone involved,” Whittemore said.

....Jamison said he agrees that Patriot Renewables and the town should find something…

"The total cost of 1-kilowatt wind turbine is around $9,000, excluding batteries. With an average wind speed of 9 mph, the estimated annual output is about 1,800 kwh. For a system large enough to provide all of your own energy, say close to 960 kwh per month for the average U.S. home, the costs can be significantly higher."…

AUGUSTA, Maine — Central Maine Power is urging customers to be wary of door-to-door energy sales people who may be misrepresenting themselves as CMP employees.

According to CMP,  the company has been receiving many customer complaints about the supplier’s salespeople misrepresenting themselves as working for, or on behalf of CMP, demanding to see copies of customers’ CMP bills, and for providing false and misleading information about energy prices.

“CMP is not…

Shifting wind patterns in the Western US are making it hard for the wind producers to take advantage of the PTC.  The grids are being forced to go to other more reliable fuels.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wind-energy-gets-blown-away-by-shifting-patterns-in-the-west/article/2570517

His weekly radio address is telling the facts of the failed energy policy of the last forty years here in Maine.  Why is it so hard for the legislature to vote for the good of the State and the people?  It is the lies they have been fed for all that time.

http://news.mpbn.net/post/lepage-liberal-policies-blame-maines-high-energy-costs

Rarely does a journalist search out the facts about wind projects that deliver adverse impacts but no benefits.  It would be great if there were more like Christine Morabito, brave enough to report the facts. Crony environmentalism behind Big Wind delivers benefits to carpet baggers and rent seekers feeding from the public trough.  It's vindicating to read the truth about wind ME media is loathe to report. 

'Cape Wind Project: A Tale of Crony Environmentalism (Part 4) The Rest of the…

Wind Development is up a huge amount this year from last, and the boom has to be done quickly as the PTC will expire at the end of next year.  I can only hope that we will get it stopped at that point, or we will be supporting overseas companies to our detriment.  …