Brade Blake photographed the turbines unders construction at First Wind's Rollins Mountain project.  Here is his report:

Folks, today I traveled around Lincoln Lakes and did some photography of the Rollins Project under construction.  They are much further along with destroying Rocky Dundee than Rollins Mt.  I would say about half the twoers are up but not many have nacelles and blades installed.  Very slowly progressing---maybe cash flow problems for First Wind?  Anyhow, here is the…

Op-Ed: Renewable energy conference disallows dialogue on effective alternatives for conservation at UM

Greetings,

I came across this in my reading and thought it might be pertinent to the municipalities facing the onslaught of corporate-backed industrial wind in Maine.

 http://www.alternet.org/economy/149725

Cheers,

Grace

Dixmont, ME…

Note: No small animals or politically sensitive individuals were purposefully injured in the production of this piece. Any resemblance to any company or individuals pictured herein is purely coincidental, and must be due to the literal interpretation of the reader.

The Greene Grocers Inc., and the tale of Good State folly.

Once upon a time, a new idea to provide “new, clean, and technologically advanced” source of produce for The Good State, is born. The…

 Sounds like we don't need auditors as much as we do CPA's - Citizens Paying Attention!

Freedom wind developers subject of federal investigation

Rumford Falls Times November 15, 2010. 

To the Editor,

 

Angus King and Rob Gardiner's Record Hill Wind project in Roxbury is not yet moving forward despite King and Gardiner's representation to the citizens of Roxbury in a letter that construction was planned to have resumed in late summer. 

 

The latest news comes from a letter sent to the town of Roxbury from the US Dept of Energy indicating that King and Gardiner have applied for a Federal Loan Guarantee, a step…

The following is excerpted from Downeast Magazine at http://www.downeast.com/magazine/2011/march/education-green-living

"And then there’s the three-hundred-foot-tall, six hundred-kilowatt wind turbine that looms over the athletic fields at the…

The following is borrowed from the website http://realwindinfoforme.com/blog/see-you-saturday/

See You Saturday

Last Updated: February 4, 2011

PENDING DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATON DP 4886

On January 31, 2011 the Commission has received a Development Permit Application from Blue Sky East, L.L.C., an affiliate of First Wind of Boston, MA, for a 34.2 megawatt (MW) grid scale…

Wind farm opponents to host Freeport summit

FREEPORT — The Harraseeket Inn will sponsor a Mountaintop Industrial Wind Legislative Summit on Saturday, Feb. 12.

The summit will start at 8 a.m. and run until 4 p.m.

Individuals and members of activist groups from across Maine will convene to coordinate their efforts and develop strategies for supporting the many protective…

Please be on the lookout for conflicts of interest. The following is worth a quick read. If the citizens aren't vigilant, than who?

Situations Involving Conflict of Interest

(1 M.R.S.A. § 1014(1))

A Legislator engages in a violation of legislative ethics if that Legislator votes on a question in connection with a conflict of interest in committee or in either body of the Legislature or attempts to influence the outcome…

This is a copy of a post I wrote for my personal blog a few days ago. Thought I'd repost it here.

Do you have a special place? That place you've…

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_17306528

 My self-imposed task of monitoring of the UMPI turbine website continues. The latest ten-day net power production for this 600 kW turbine averaged 935.7 kWh per day.  That's 6.6% of "rated capacity"! 

My casual log of rotor windspeeds shows the following  momentary data:  (Rotor-level wind speed in mph)  4.3; 2.5; calm; 7.8; 3.8; calm;14.5; 13.9; 7.4; 9.6; 5.1; calm, calm, calm, 3.1; 5.4; 3.4; 13.2; 10.5; 15.2; (one day I skipped; the next day, 2/08, the site reported all zeroes),…

www.kassociates.com_MarineRenewable_default.htm.pdf

PLEASE CLICK ON THE ABOVE LINK which up until recently appeared on the website of Kleinschmidt Associates.

http://www.sunjournal.com/state/story/980299

 …

Energy group funded via state agency hired mostly Dem lawmakers, activists

One month ago, on January 1, 2011, the UMPI website had gone blooey, showing no data, so as a surrogate for 1/1/11, we'll use the KWH recorded on 12/29/10 - 1,029,982. To see the 12/29/10 production, please look at the Excel screenshot dated 12/29/10 at

http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/umpi-wind-turbine-2011

Today, project to date KWH's stand at…