Justice Michaela Murphy ruled on March 10 that Aho’s decision was not based on relevant evidence and ordered the department to reassess its enforcement based on such evidence............There is no timetable under which the justices must issue their decision.

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Pew cites the American Wind Energy Association, which said “Maine’s onshore.... STOP RIGHT THERE PEW. YOU JUST LOST ANY CREDIBILITY YOU MAY HAVE HAD. 

“It’s good to see the recognition by Pew for the dedicated work Maine has been involved in to create a new energy economy using clean, reliable resources,” Paul Williamson, director of the Maine Ocean and Wind Industry initiative,…

Note the board of Deepwater is populated by the likes of Paul Gaynor, Michael Alvarez and a collection of other First Wind/D.E. Shaw insiders.

http://dwwind.com/about/board-of-directors

Note that U.S. Congresswoman Chellie Pingree's husband incubated First Wind's half owner, D.E. Shaw.…

Climate Change … Who Cares?

Willis Eschenbach / 2 days ago December 5, 2014

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach…

Here we have the father of the conservation movement's experience in Maine credited with his becoming the father of the conservation movement. Yet the very place he stayed at - Island Falls, has been slated for massive scarring from the Oakfield wind factory and transmission, just so an Enronesque group of slippery investment type insider-bribers can line their pockets while helping drain the U.S. Treasury....and shamelessly doing all of this defrauding under…

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The PTC turns a weak technology into a riskless bet, encouraging energy companies to spend their limited renewable budgets on subsidy farming rather than the best prospective solutions. The major players in the US wind industry will continue theirefforts of subsidy-seeking in the coming…

“Environmental groups are (also) fighting that idea, largely because they favor renewable energy over natural gas.”

So, green groups reject natural gas along with coal? And honestly expect renewable sources to replace them? How many Americans know that?

Please continue reading at:…

The Production Tax Credit for wind energy helps level the playing field and has been a key driver in wind industry job growth over the past decade.

http://bangordailynews.com/2014/12/04/opinion/friday-dec-5-2014-wind-tax-credit-national-park/

It would be interesting to know if the author, a Kate Rush, is the same Kate Rush who is…

 You will be able to view the proceedings via streaming. (links provided at following link)

https://fiwn.wordpress.com/2014/12/04/on-dec-9th-maine-law-court-to-hear-our-case-on-wind-turbine-noise-violations-live-streaming-available/

Believe in America again?

Can a citizen of Maine appeal any agency decisions? YES! Become an interested party of the project you are interested in.  Make comments where you have knowledge of projects’ impacts.

If the projects’ impact is still adverse in the permit then appeal the agencies final action.

Take the appeal to a higher court.

My experience in this procedure was un-expectantly pleasant.  The clerk of Maine Judicial Supreme Courts in Portland Maine walked…

The official title of the Citizens Initiative (CI) is: 

AN ACT TO REPEAL AND AMEND SECTIONS OF THE EXPEDITED WIND ENERGY ACT TO CHANGE THE PERMITTING CRITERIA  FOR WIND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT

Please read Dan Remian's full piece at:

http://www.friendsofmainesmountains.org/

Astute reader comment: "The mandates for green energy have everything to do with skyrocketing electricity cost. When non-dispatchable energy sources grab market share at subsidized rates they force other generators to reduce annual capacity factors. This market disruption leads to operations at below their annual economic break-even points. These operators than close their operations leaving ISO-NE short of necessary Base Load capacity. The auction for capacity…

As everyone expected, a full court press is happening with the wind industry and their cronies in Congress, trying desperately to get the Production Tax Credit renewed and extended.    They have joined the others in the pack of taxpayer funding thieves to get a broad "Extender" bill passed.  You can help stop this. 

Friends of Maine's Mountains has set up a letter opposing the PTC extension that you can electronically "sign".

To view the letter, click here: …

If It’s About the Owner, It’s Not News

by Al Diamon

NOTE: This is a story that all media in the state should be reporting on especially considering Maine Today Media is owned by 25% of our delegation in Washington, D.C. 

http://thebollard.com/2014/12/02/media-mutt-127/

Disclose or else (appears about 2/3's of the way down).

NOTE: When the taxpayer funded media adjusts its journalism for pay, we really need to think about pulling the plug on their funding - both from tax dollars and from personal contributions.

by Al Diamon…

Data from the top 10 wind power states show that from 2008-2013 electricity prices rose an average of 20.7 percent, which is seven-fold higher than the national average of merely 2.8 percent.

https://www.centralmaine.com/2014/11/29/wind-power-a-needless-extra-cost/

The lame duck Congress, legal eagles and pro-wind turkeys could very well give the wind industry addicts yet another fix and revive the Production Tax Credit (PTC), a 10 year gift to grifters and grafters coming out of the taxpayer pocket while simultaneously slamming ratepayers. Always minimized in the media as 2.3 cents per kWH, this translates to about a $1.5 Million taxpayer gift PER TURBINE to the slick investor crowd who think nothing of…

"Morgan...your letter is practically a carbon copy of the op-eds and public testimony given all across Maine by the wind industry and its most ardent supporters (which are usually organizations and/or contractors which have benefited from ‘tangible benefits’ in the form of donations to [or contracts with] those very same entities.)" …