Karen Bessey Pease, a resident of Lexington Township, urged commissioners to reject the TIF proposal, saying that First Wind had already proved their financial capacity to the state and that there was no need to return taxpayer money to the company.

“I realize that First Wind has received their permit to build the Bingham Wind Project, but as a resident and taxpayer in the unorganized territory, I would prefer that you don’t return any money to this developer,” Bessey Pease…

No-one should have to be made to host harmful, destructive and useless renewable energy projects just because sweetheart deals have been worked out between land owners, local and state politicians, and the renewable energy cartel. No-one!

Of those, 89 people said they would approve more wind-energy plants, and 145 were opposed to the idea, Spafford said.

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20141218/NEWS05/141218876&source=RSS

Mike Barnard’s wind wings clipped by employer: Told to stop writing on wind power, resign fellowship from Energy and Policy Institute, and delete his blog: Barnard on Wind

https://www.masterresource.org/health-safety-wind/barnard-wind-propagandist-ibm/

Jeremy Payne declined to comment specifically on the potential nominees, noting that his trade group, which represents wind power, biomass and other generators, typically meets and questions PUC nominees.

http://www.pressherald.com/2014/12/18/lepage-considers-two-on-his-staff-to-fill-puc-seats-at-pivotal-time/

The agreement also would allow First Wind to be reimbursed for some of its costs, totaling about $10 million over the next 30 years, according to the proposal.

http://www.centralmaine.com/2014/12/16/somerset-county-to-decide-on-tif-for-bingham-wind-project/

Connecticut has also passed a law banning double counting of renewable credits. 

http://digital.vpr.net/post/vermonts-energy-credits-questioned-renewable-program-likely-change

Date: 11/11/2013

During 2013, ISO New England (ISO-NE), the region's independent system operator, continued to address a range of issues that impact wind power's access to and participation in the regional power market. These issues cover the integration of variable resources; the forward capacity market; bidding rules in ISO's energy market; and transmission congestion, planning, and cost allocation. Many of the topics are under active consideration, and depending on the outcome,…

 It won't be long before wind is setting some of the clearinghouse prices for electric supply in New England.

http://isonewswire.com/updates/2014/4/1/new-wind-power-forecast-integrated-into-iso-ne-processes-and.html

Since Maine’s wind energy act became law in 2008, the energy playing field has been tilted sharply in favor of wind developers and against the state’s citizens and the environment in which they live. Every effort to modify that law has been rebuffed by the Maine Legislature.

Dan Remain of Cushing wants to do something about it and has mounted a campaign for a citizens initiative that would repeal or amend sections of the law to level the playing field and restore citizens’…

Another recently adopted change to ISO-NE energy market pricing rules will (pending FERC final approval) affect wind power projects. Today, intermittent generators like wind projects participating in ISO's energy markets can simply bid zero ($0 per MWh) and be assured of being selected and getting paid the real-time market clearing price, a practice referred to as being a "price taker." There are times, however, when the output of all projects acting as price takers would exceed the load. In…

http://blogs.platts.com/2013/11/22/ee-nov13/#more-13051

The Senator is reading right from the wind hustlers' book of lies. Well then again, he helped write it. The article below reports he has just secured an appointment on the U.S. Senate's Energy Committee. It's like having a wind lobbyist on that committee - impacting decisions affecting the entire U.S., and the 316 million rent payers who live here and enrich the people on the inside.

BDN - Angus King: "The wind industry already has…

More Wind, Less Warming” from Environment Maine Research & Policy Center shows wind power can be a key player in that clean energy future.

Laura Dorle is a campaign organizer for Environment Maine. Katie Chapman is a project manager for EDP Renewables North America, LLC, a wind energy developer that is proposing a wind development in…

"It appears that the electricity generated by this project will remain exclusively or largely in Maine and not be delivered to Connecticut or elsewhere outside of Maine,' and that "the environmental effects of the investment … will primarily accrue to the citizens of sparsely populated Aroostook County, certain parts of Canada's Maritime Provinces, and the Atlantic Ocean. "

The developer of the Number Nine Wind Farm, EDP Renewables North America, said it expects the project to be…

The Portsmouth-based company, which is a subsidiary of Eolian Renewable Energy, is now proposing a slightly smaller 28-megawatt wind farm that calls for nine turbines instead of 10 and decreases their height.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/home/14742554-95/antrim-wind-energy-hopes-to-resurrect-project

Jim Cassida, First Wind’s permitting and compliance manager, gave a brief overview of the project and then invited audience members to speak with one of the dozen professionals lining the back wall of the room standing alongside an equal number of color charts, maps and photos.

The experts and the materials they brought with them addressed everything from the potential visual and aural impact of the project to what effect it would have on birds.

Continue reading at: …

National Grid, one of …

Just one of around a dozen wires securing the tower came down, the trooper said.....“The nuts and bolts from one [support] cable had been removed on one side and dropped it"........“It’s a $30,000 piece of equipment that is destroyed"...........…