These liars stated today before the Environment & Natural Resources Committee that wind power has actually lowered Maine's electricity rates when the reason rates went down was natural gas - something they fight. In fact, the transmission portion of the rates went up on July 1 by 20% due to wind power.

Two Maine offshore wind…

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Tune in Alert RIGHT NOW - Wind Bills at ENR Committee Public Hearing

Please tune in at the following Web link to listen to the public hearing on the two wind bills below. Note that if one of the media players does not work, they offer alternative media players.

It will be dead air until they start.

http://www.maine.gov/legis/audio/natural_res_cmte.html

Hearings…

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Added by Long Islander on April 8, 2013 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Public letter regarding Maine Superior Court action and Fox Islands Wind Neighbors

April 7, 2013

It is now three years since the three 1.5 megawatt industrial wind turbines…

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Added by Long Islander on April 8, 2013 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Donald Trump: "Windmills Are the Worst of All"

Mr. Trump begins discussing energy at about the 5:45 mark in this interview from last night. The part where he slams wind is at about the 6:40 mark.

The voices are mounting. This industry's days are numbered.…

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Added by Long Islander on April 6, 2013 at 9:07pm — 4 Comments

$14 million to remove two wind turbines - state punishing town

POLL: Falmouth selectmen, finance committee stand firm on removing turbines

State won't offer assistance if they are removed

By Scott A. Giordano

THE BULLETIN…

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Added by Long Islander on April 6, 2013 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

The Northern Pass | 'My Roots Are Deeper than Your Pockets' (Yankee Magazine)

March/April 2013

The Northern Pass | 'My Roots Are Deeper than Your Pockets'

Love of place can run so deep that it's like faith. You can't explain it--it's just there.

by Howard Mansfield

EXCERPTS

The Northern Pass is a…

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Added by Long Islander on April 4, 2013 at 9:31am — 3 Comments

Hawaii Electric Company (HECO) To Nail Ratepayers on Behalf of...FIRST WIND

Yet another Public Utilities Commission magically under the spell of First Wind.

HECO Breaks Wind. Yesterday the Public Utilities Commission ruled that Hawaiian Electric can stiff its customers for the $3.9 million it spent on "studies" for the First Wind project on Lanai and Molokai (rejected by residents on both Islands) and the accompanying undersea electric cable project.…

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Added by Long Islander on April 3, 2013 at 5:13pm — 2 Comments

Sangerville residents vote to restrict wind development

By Alex Barber, BDN Staff

Posted April 02, 2013, at 6:10 p.m.

SANGERVILLE, Maine — Residents of this Piscataquis County town overwhelmingly passed an…

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Added by Long Islander on April 2, 2013 at 9:30pm — 2 Comments

Governor LePage:Mainers paying higher rates for electricity due to wind power

Please note the emphasis in bold green is mine.

Weekly Message: Mainers Need Affordable Electricity Now

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Added by Long Islander on March 30, 2013 at 7:00am — 7 Comments

Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting Wind Pieces

The following are the links to the various investigative series on wind power by the Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting. These are all important articles, well worth reading or re-reading.

They are being put here to make them easy to find.

WARNING: In the past, the links to these articles have gone dead. If that happens, please contact the administrator and/or post an advisory and we will try to find the latest links and fix on this…

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Added by Long Islander on March 30, 2013 at 12:00am — 2 Comments

New England renewable energy a hard sell in region (Sun Journal)

New England renewable energy a hard sell in region

Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 11:02 pm

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Legislation in Connecticut would expand the types of hydropower and biogas that count as alternative power in the state's portfolio, create a new class that includes certain large-scale hydropower resources and make other changes in alternative power standards.

Massachusetts…

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Added by Long Islander on March 29, 2013 at 7:30pm — 3 Comments

Governor LePage nominates Portland lawyer as next public advocate

LePage nominates Portland lawyer as next public advocate

By Matthew Stone, BDN Staff

Posted April 01, 2013, at 6:28 p.m.

Last modified April 01, 2013, at 6:56 p.m.…

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BDN - Rural Mainers turn out in force to back bills that would change wind energy law

Rural Mainers turn out in force to back bills that would change wind energy law

By Robert Long, BDN Staff

Posted March 28, 2013, at 7:27 p.m.…

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States Cooling to Renewable Energy (Wall Street Journal)

March 28, 2013, 6:21 p.m. ET

States Cooling to Renewable Energy

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Legislatures in half the states that require electric utilities to buy renewable energy are considering proposals to roll back those mandates....

...Ohio state Sen. Bill Seitz, a Republican who is leading a review of his state's renewable-energy mandate, said the policy reminded him of "Joseph…

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WEB TUNE IN ALERT RIGHT NOW - Energy & Utilities Discussing Wind Bills

It's 2PM and the Energy & Utilities Committee is finishing up its work sessions, then they will begin the hearings for the three bills if folks want to tune in. If Windows Media Player does not work, note there are other media players to click.

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Added by Long Islander on March 28, 2013 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Did Beaver Ridge wind developer Richard Silkman's advice cost electricity consumers more than $3.3 million?

Richard Silkman was one of the founders of the horrible Beaver Ridge wind project in Freedom, ME.

EXCERPT:

"FERC charged last summer that Richard Silkman, a principal in the energy company, gave improper advice to Rumford Paper. The advice was related to a program run by New England's power grid operator, in which big power…

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Maine Energy Cost Reduction Authority Proposed

Proposed Maine agency would advance natural gas pipelines

By Steve Mistler smistler@pressherald.com

State House Bureau

AUGUSTA — A new government…

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CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

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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

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