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May 5, 2015 - A new article this morning from the Bangor Daily News following up on Governor LePage's nomination yesterday of Bruce Williamson to the Maine PUC begins with the words:

"One of the biggest and broadest challenges ahead in the electricity world is how to pay for the grid upgrades expected to cost about $1.5 trillion nationally between 2010 and 2030, an estimate developed by consultants at The Brattle Group".…

RE:http://bangordailynews.com/2015/05/04/business/sunedison-halts-talks-with-maine-regulators-on-wind-energy-deals/?ref=regionstate

Mainers should start to benefit from real competition in the electricity market .

The subsidized high cost lies from the wind lobby and the lying sleazeballs of "Enronesque" First Wind…

Renewable energy developer SunEdison has decided not to seek a long-term contract with Maine utilities for its Weaver Wind project, following the Maine Public Utilities Commission’s reconsideration of the terms of a 25-year power purchasing agreement.…

U.S. plan: Fight terror with green energy projects

The production tax credit is not enough, so use foreign aid to send even more money to the wind sector.

The “Economic Growth Activity” project being pursued by the Obama administration will hire contractors to advise the Somalian government in building an “economic foundation” in green infrastructure…

“That’s why I have introduced legislation to eliminate the production tax credit.” Marchant noted, “Since its creation in 1992, the PTC has ballooned from a temporary boost for energy innovation into a massive special interest handout for the now multibillion-dollar wind industry. Today the wind industry regularly produces more energy than the market demands while hardworking taxpayers shell out billions of dollars each year in PTC support.…

LD 1329 hearing in EUT Committee May 5th 1:00 pm – Basically the Citizens Initiative as a bill – We need as much ought to pass testimony as possible

and if you cannot travel....send snail mail...I know they read e-mails (or not?)  but snail mail goes to the committee clerk...(s)he should record it.

Maine's transmission upgrade is almost done...

Maine can transfer 1400 MW out of state.

Maine has 431 MW from 254 turbines in place.

333 more 3 MW turbines will fill the plate.

I read where 618 more turbines are planned in Maine.

We need to stop 285 turbines this year.

And if a $38 million scam bothers you, then you should be many, many times more upset about the $1.4 billion scam called the Maine Power Reliability Project (MPRP) or CMP Upgrade, a gift to the wind industry funded by duped ratepayers which most of the powers that be deny is such a gift. In fact just this week, our so called Public Advocate in essence stated that transmission build doesn't have anything to do with wind.

The game they have played is that they will say it is not…

Nowhere is this truer than in the IRS’s repeated expansion of the controversial wind-production tax credit, which provides federal subsidies to wind-energy producers. Over the last two and a half years, the agency has shown how a slow-but-steady watering down of federal law can completely reshape its original scope and intent — alarmingly, without any congressional action.…

ROCKLAND, Maine — The City Council voted Friday morning to grant an option to a Boston-based energy company that wants to build a $200 million natural gas power plant on land where City Hall is now located.

The decision came two days after the council failed to grant the option to Rockland Energy Center. Councilors voted 2-1 Wednesday night in favor of the option, but three affirmative votes were needed for approval.…

Why Does Wynne's Granddaughter Deserve Protection, But NOT My Son??? http://wp.me/p1mW0A-JV  via…

This is an Audio Recording of the EUT session on April 29th 2015.

I was late returning from an Appointment and had a bit of difficulty accessing the link so I missed an hour that I could have gotten. 5:00 pm until end AUDIO FILE [1:54:35 ]

To access this file, you may need to activate a…

I like this comment from a reader of this article:

Jim Wiegand

The comparison isn't even close. Wind turbines in America probably kill more birds

each month than the BP oil spill in the Gulf.

But what is the public to believe when research is rigged, our government is

corrupt and very little we are being told about renewable energy is the truth?

We are not being told about important turbine impacts like the extinction…

One of the investors in the Somerset Economic Development Corporation is Cianbro...

We can now Identify a common Enemy, not only per this article but also by a long ago article that Vigue of Cianbro who is part or by now whole owner of the former Moscow Over the Horizon Radar station, has stated his plans for 10 Wind Turbines at some point in time. Remember the Somerset County Commissioners sold out the…

This is the message I sent to the Maine Legislature's Environment and Natural Resources Committee, including the photos.  It is NOT too late to email or call the Committee members to do the right thing and pass LD 911, which includes a greater scenic impact zone for the ever larger wind turbines and putting cumulative impact into the law as criteria.  Here is the link to the Committee: …

The importance of having firm generation capacity as opposed to non-dispatchable sources like wind power may be touched upon today in the discussion of LD 1313. As noted in FMM's most recent legislative update,  LD 1313 would remove the referendum requirement for installing nuclear plants that are small. The idea in this Governor's bill is that we need firm generation capacity as opposed to non-dispatchable…

The Expedited Permitting Area was created behind closed doors. No minutes…

The S Donald, the U.S. Congresswoman's husband who personally incubated D.E. Shaw, longtime half owner of First Wind, sells his pro-wind newspapers.

Press Herald papers purchased by midcoast businessman Reade Brower

A memo sent to Maine Today Media staff late Tuesday confirmed financier S. Donald Sussman, husband of Democratic U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, agreed to sell the paper. …

Office of the Governor Chief Legal Counsel, Policy Advisors Announced

April 27, 2015

Governor's Office

For Immediate Release: Monday, April 27, 2015

Contact: Adrienne Bennett, Press Secretary, 207-287-2531

AUGUSTA – Governor Paul R. LePage today announced several staff additions to the Office of the Governor, including Chief Legal Counsel and three Policy Advisors.

Cynthia Montgomery serves as Chief Legal Counsel for the Office of the Governor.…