Long Islander's Blog (2,990)

by Zara Norman

November 11, 2023

Updated November 13, 2023

Maine’s ratepayer advocate has angered the fossil-fuel sector by floating a ban on new natural gas pipelines, a move that will lead to charged conversations about the state’s energy future.

The bill from Public Advocate William Harwood is backed by environmental groups and would ban any new natural gas pipelines from being constructed outside existing service areas. It…

Perhaps not since Governor Baldacci's 2008 rotten and corruptly passed special interest legislation known as Maine's "Expedited Wind Law", has there been such a rotten, totalitarian and sweeping insult brought upon Maine by its government as the power corridor that would run from Aroostook County through central Maine. Aside from trampling the lives and rights of central Maine residents, this power line would open up Aroostook and Penobscot counties for a massive new wave of bullsh_t wind…

November 8, 2023

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Joshua Abram Kercsmar is an early American historian and associate professor of Environmental Humanities at Unity Environmental University. He also serves as vice president of Preserve Rural Maine.

BY JOSHUA ABRAM KERCSMAR

If LS Power’s “Aroostook Renewable Gateway” project is truly Maine’s “gateway to progress,” we should expect it to innovate in ways that speed the state toward meeting its climate…

With the clarity of this day after the referendum, and with the sanity of Maine voters revealed, (despite incessant propaganda efforts to paint us as supporters of green idiocy), here's a reminder of just how out of touch NRCM is with the average Mainer:

NRCM statement on Question…

Nick Pope on November 5, 2023

The past week has been marked by worrying developments for the state of the green energy industry, suggesting that President Joe Biden’s sweeping climate agenda could be imperiled.

Offshore wind companies are cancelling projects and executives are sounding the alarm on the state of the industry, while solar companies and…

John Droz, Jr: Media Balance Newsletter: November 6, 2023

Please click on the following link to read the following stories and much, much more:

https://election-integrity.info/Newsletter/2023/Media_Balance_Newsletter-11-6-23.pdf

*** Wind industry confirms Great Green Lie

*** Collapse of…

Dan Grote , Michelle Brunetti Post , Eric Conklin

Nov 1, 2023

EXCERPTS

Michael Donohue, who represents Cape May County in offshore wind litigation, said he believes the county’s legal challenges played a role in the company’s decision to abandon the project.

"We're not standing here saying we singlehandedly took down Ørsted Ocean Wind 1 and 2, but there can be no doubt…

As George Carlin said, "It's a big club, and you ain't in it it."

(CAUTION: Language Alert)

Wind companies losing billions, prompting fears a federal bailout could be coming

By Kevin Killough

Published: October 28, 2023…

Another example of our government's gross incompetence and unacceptable overreach. Every candidate running for office should be asked if they will commit to ending the EV madness, an exceptional blunder from the dunderheads in office.

Mega-Jolt: The Costs and Logistics of Plugging In EVs Are About to Become Supercharged

By John Murawski…

October 22, 2023

Credit: Doomberg | Sep 17, 2023 | doomberg.substack.com ~~

To be an effective podcast guest requires a few basic tactics. First, it is important to let the host get their full question asked before beginning to answer yourself. In normal conversation, it is not uncommon to understand where a friend is going and to get there before they do, but in a podcast setting it can be off-putting. It is also advisable to directly address the host’s questions in a…

by Peter A. Thalheim

October 24, 2023

The opinion piece on September 21 in CTMirror by the State Director of the Sierra Club Connecticut was an unfortunate exercise in gaslighting in support of electric vehicles.

We all do and should love the environment. We only have one. But we should not overstate our argument lest we undermine effective longer term changes in consumption methods to better help our environment. And we should keep environmental equity in mind. We should…

Maine Public | By Murray Carpenter

Published October 16, 2023 at 6:43 AM EDT

Nearly 100 opponents of a power line that would connect southern Aroostook County to central Maine rallied in Augusta Saturday afternoon.

The 1,200-megawatt power line would run from Glenwood Plantation to Coopers Mills, sending electricity south from a 1,000-megawatt wind farm that's proposed for Aroostook County.

The Public Utilities Commission accepted LS…

By Mary Lhowe / October 6, 2023 / ecori.org ~~

Green Oceans, the Rhode Island citizens group that fiercely opposes offshore wind farms, is in the midst of a civil lawsuit it has filed against the state Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC), claiming the council violated the constitution, state regulations, and its own responsibilities when it approved the Revolution Wind farm in May.

The lawsuit, being heard in Newport Superior Court, asks the court to vacate the…

Oil industry insider David Blackmon notes the irony of diesel-powered Superchargers, and says rising EV use is a 'huge problem’ for the US power grid.

By Joshua Philipp and Naveen Athrappully

10/9/2023

Excerpts

Tesla’s biggest EV Supercharger station in the United States uses diesel power to charge vehicles, according to an energy expert who confirmed that these types of diesel-powered stations…

by Alex Kriel and Duncan White

7 October 2023

Advocates of Net Zero policies repeatedly reassure the public that they are advancing cheap, green energy with the promise of vast numbers of lucrative green jobs and world leadership for the U.K. in selected green technologies.

Unfortunately for the hard pressed British electorate, ‘cheap, green energy’ is nothing more than an empty political slogan arrived at by a dishonest sleight of hand. Specifically, the…

Just one more example of totalitarianism disguised as "green". Each of the two projects, a giant wind complex and the transmission it requires, benefits only the hucksters and cause great harm to the people of Maine. Both projects are built on lies, actually big lies. And such big lies are never questioned within the official narratives but rather wholly supported. Thankfully the people are beginning to awaken.

Every single elected official and regulator supporting this…

Perhaps worth bookmarking.

https://www.preserveruralmaine.org/

https://landownersvoicemaine.substack.com/…

September 26, 2023

BY STEPHEN SINGER STAFF WRITER

EXCERPTS

.....A land-based wind project bringing power from northern Maine to ISO-New England, the region’s grid operator, has been moving ahead of offshore floating wind projects in the regulatory process.

The planned Aroostook Renewable Gateway project will consist of single-circuit and double-circuit 345 kV transmission lines and substations that will deliver 1,200…

by Lori Valigra

September 25, 2023

EXCERPTS

Doug Mulvey and his company, LS Power, wanted to minimize the risk of their multi-billion-dollar bid for a 160-mile transmission line that would bring wind power through Aroostook County and onto the New England grid.

So they asked the Maine Legislature in March to approve the project, and by June they received it. The approval was required…