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The obscure law that complicates offshore wind development

By Kate Cough

February 25, 2024

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..............The Merchant Marine Act of 1920, better known as the Jones Act, requires goods shipped between U.S. ports to be transported on vessels that have been built in American shipyards, are registered in the U.S. and are crewed and owned by U.S. citizens.

Customs and Border Protection, which enforces the law, has said it applies to any device installed on the seafloor up to 200 nautical miles…

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Added by Long Islander on February 25, 2024 at 12:17pm — 1 Comment

The Maine Golden Eagle Study, a citizen-science project, is hoping to learn more about the presence of an endangered species in Maine

February 25, 2024

HERB WILSON

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..............We can characterize the abundance of golden eagles in Maine as rare year-round. Perhaps the best time of year see one is in March in the western mountains, when the Labrador and Newfoundland breeders are migrating back to their nesting grounds.

Fall migrants are more common in the western mountains as well, beginning in late September, peaking in late October to November, trailing off in…

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Added by Long Islander on February 25, 2024 at 10:25am — No Comments

NextEra and the NECEC

Inside a clean energy titan’s fight to kill a climate project

Story by By Benjamin Storrow…

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Added by Dan McKay on February 25, 2024 at 10:23am — No Comments

Gates, Soros And Other Lunatics Team Up To Destroy The Planet

Once again, we have lunatics with unlimited resources experimenting with our environment without our approval. Gates, Soros and a host of other "scientists" are embarking on a campaign to block the sun's radiance by spewing chemicals and chaulk dust into the atmosphere to mitigate the global warming hoax.

Israel is doing something similar with high altitude balloons and the brain trust at Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute in MA are planning to dump 6000 gallons of sodium hydroxide…

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Added by Richard McDonald/Saving Maine on February 24, 2024 at 11:00am — 5 Comments

Maine Dems Unanimously Reject Voter ID

FEBRUARY 23, 2024…
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Added by Dan McKay on February 24, 2024 at 8:03am — 9 Comments

United Nations Foundation is quietly fueling climate policy, funding staff in Dem states

"They are staffing governors’ offices, to set the policies, and regulatory agencies — including at least one cabinet official — to ensure that official reports and rules are climate-industry produced," Horner continued. "Meanwhile, the risk of blackouts across the U.S. has soared as this U.N. ‘energy transition’ agenda is implemented, by people they have placed on the inside."

Weblink to the full article:…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on February 23, 2024 at 11:09am — 2 Comments

New England Ocean Wind Farm Generates Power For 30K Homes Misleading

Politicians have announced a wind farm consisting of five large wind…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on February 23, 2024 at 10:34am — 4 Comments

Maine Congressional Democrats Vote Down Election Integrity Bill

The Legislative Council Was Asked to Move a Bill into Committee That Would Have Assured Every Legal Vote Would Count in Upcoming Elections. 

Again and Again, Democrats Show Their Ignorance to Common Sense…

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Added by Dan McKay on February 23, 2024 at 9:00am — 5 Comments

Joe Rogan: The way the mainstream news operates should be illegal (2 minute video)

Joe Rogan and Kid Rock Go Off on How Trump Exposed the Fake News Media…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on February 23, 2024 at 7:00am — 1 Comment

Unpopular “Aroostook Renewable Gateway” May Face More Roadblocks

By Seamus Othot

February 21, 2024

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Maine’s Committee on Energy Utilities and Technology (EUT) held a public hearing on Tuesday on a bill which could strike another blow against the controversial Aroostook Renewable Energy Gateway.

[RELATED: The Heavily Criticized “Aroostook Renewable Gateway” Suffers Another Setback…]

“The opposition of this transmission line was not specific to any political party. It is a bipartisan issue,…

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Added by Long Islander on February 22, 2024 at 1:30pm — 3 Comments

Organizers stand against building offshore wind port at Sears Island

By Marleigha Clipston

Published: Feb. 21, 2024 at 8:33 PM EST

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - The Alliance for Sears Island and their allies gathered in Belfast today to stand against the decision to build an offshore wind port at Sears Island

Governor Mills announced the location Tuesday.

The Alliance believes the state should have offshore wind power, but the port should be at a different location

They say Mack Point would be a better site and just as many…

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Added by Long Islander on February 22, 2024 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Vineyard Wind paid for guaranteeing future electricity production?

 

The nation’s first major offshore wind farm, the under-construction Vineyard Wind off Massachusetts, has shown up in an important, if obscure,…

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Added by Dan McKay on February 22, 2024 at 8:33am — 4 Comments

Maine state law exempts solar projects from municipal property taxes

  • After being forced to provide a roughly $63,000 property tax refund to a solar development, the town of Oxford, Maine, decides to hold a vote on a proposed solar project moratorium in June. (Advertiser Democrat)

Added by Dan McKay on February 22, 2024 at 8:27am — 4 Comments

Spend Billions of Dollars and Get 0 Results.

According to ISO-NE computations for annual electrical production by source:

Non-Renewable Sources Made Up 88% of Production in 2001.

Non-Renewable Sources Made Up 89% of Production in 2023.

No Joke…

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Added by Dan McKay on February 22, 2024 at 8:10am — 1 Comment

Susan Collins on confidential leaked leftist list to protect radical green agenda; already counted as a supporter

The Inflation Reduction Act means trillions of your dollars going to a relatively small group of John Podesta's shyster green energy friends. Therefore, rest assured, there will be no problem spending multi-millions to make sure Republicans will be reliable supporters of this America destroying monstrosity. No surprise to see Senator…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on February 21, 2024 at 11:00pm — 4 Comments

Biden’s War on Domestic Energy Intensifies

2/18/24

By Matt Egan & Brent Bennett

On Jan. 26, President Joe Biden took an aggressive step forward in his war on American energy by halting the permitting of new liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminals. This action has massive global implications, as TPPF’s Mark Mills laid out when the decision was publicly…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on February 20, 2024 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

Sears Island selected as preferred site for offshore wind power port

Maine Public | By Susan Sharon

Published February 20, 2024 at 1:26 PM EST

Gov. Janet Mills at a press conference announcing Sears Island as the preferred site for an offshore wind port on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024.
Nicole Ogrysko/Maine Public file
Members of a state working group tasked with finding a suitable port to serve the offshore wind industry toured Sears Island in Nov. 2022. Later, they toured the port of Mack Point, visible in…
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Added by Long Islander on February 20, 2024 at 4:00pm — 7 Comments

A new report says more investment in New England's grid is needed for a clean energy future

Maine Public | By Robbie Feinberg

Published February 20, 2024 at 6:45 AM EST

A new report says that the region will need to make substantial investment in its electrical grid, as Maine and New England embrace wind, solar and technologies such as EV's and heat pumps.

The study,…

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Added by Long Islander on February 20, 2024 at 12:00pm — 4 Comments

‘Pure Junk Science’: Researchers Challenge Narrative on CO2 and Warming Correlation

UN claims that human-caused CO2 emissions are imperiling the planet are ‘totally garbage,’ says scientist. ‘CO2 doesn’t cause a change in temperature.’

By Katie Spence

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February 19, 2024

Each year from 2023 to 2030, climate change sustainable development goals will cost every person in economies such as the United States $2,026, the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development estimates. In lower-income economies, the…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on February 20, 2024 at 12:00am — 3 Comments

New England Offshore Wind Renewable Energy Goal A Yellow Brick Road

New England Offshore Wind Renewable Energy Goals A Yellow Brick Road 
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Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, and Rhode Island have mandates to reduce greenhouse gas reductions. The goals are set between 2025 and 2050.
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Since 2013 around 5000 megawatts of fossil fuel plants have retired and now…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on February 19, 2024 at 9:11am — 9 Comments

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Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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