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Lisa Linowes: Wind Energy Without the PTC (Master Resource)
Wind Energy Without the PTC
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on May 10, 2012 at 11:38pm — 1 Comment
Justices grill attorneys over PUC decision on 'smart' meters
Added by Long Islander on May 10, 2012 at 11:00pm — No Comments
Why We Need to Terminate Big Wind Subsidies
Why We Need to Terminate Big Wind Subsidies
Added by Long Islander on May 8, 2012 at 1:00pm — No Comments
Vermont Legislature Drops Renewable Energy Requirements For Utilities
Under pressure from business groups, the Legislature has backed away from a plan to require utilities to buy a certain percentage of their electricity from renewable sources.
The energy…
Added by Long Islander on May 3, 2012 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment
A Must Read Comprehensive Article About U.S. Senate Hopeful Angus King by Crash Barry
Added by Long Islander on May 3, 2012 at 3:00pm — 2 Comments
UMS Board of Trustees Approved UMPI Turbine in "Lovefest" - But three trustee terms expire this month
Academia, including the University of Maine is one of the forces that blindly supports politically correct wind energy. Many universities can simply never be "green" enough, even if they don't quite know what that means or that their dogma-driven goals are largely ill conceived.
Following is an excerpt on how the UMS System blindly approved the UMPI wind turbine disaster:
"The University prepared carefully for a discussion of the wind project at the September…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on May 3, 2012 at 3:00pm — 2 Comments
Eight Republican Reps: "Running water is not a renewable"
The following eight Republicans went against their party's leader, Governor LePage and agreed with the wind industry that running water is not renewable. By effectively banning large inexpensive Canadian hydro power as a renewable, they have granted yet one more subsidy in kind to the parasitic wind industry…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on May 1, 2012 at 8:00am — 39 Comments
Progressive Energy vs. “Renewable” Energy
Progressive Energy vs. “Renewable” Energy
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 30, 2012 at 8:00am — 3 Comments
DONNA SEWALL DAVIDGE: Wind power editorial did not reflect real environmental threat
Another View: Wind power editorial did not reflect real environmental threat
The wind industry has benefited from its influence on public policy in Maine.
By DONNA SEWALL DAVIDGE
Read the piece …
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 29, 2012 at 9:09am — 1 Comment
Governor Paul LePage: "Wind is costing us dearly"
Excerpted from 4/27/12 Bangor Daily News:
LePage mentioned energy as another key topic when he was making his way through various towns in Penobscot County.
“Mainers are paying $326 million per year above the average American for our energy,” said LePage.
He targeted wind power as a major contributor for that high number.
“It’s a big number. Why? Because we have some groups in Maine that are greedy. We have people in Maine who say that wind is the answer.…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 27, 2012 at 2:00am — No Comments
Maine Guides Guide First Wind Out of Downeast Lakes: Bowers Wind is Dead
Now let's stop them at Mattawamkeag and Pleasant Lakes in Oakfield-Island Falls.
CONTACT: Kevin Gurall FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Email: …
Added by Long Islander on April 20, 2012 at 6:30pm — 6 Comments
Bangor Daily News - LURC set to hand First Wind its first, biggest defeat
I'll bet they wish their former half owner Larry "D.E. Shaw" Summers and Rahm "I love their other half owner Madison Dearborn" Emanuel were still in Washington giving them handouts with our money. Or that Kurt Adams was still in Augusta "helping out".
LURC set to hand First Wind its first, biggest defeat…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 20, 2012 at 5:00pm — 3 Comments
Maine Senate passes large hydroelectric as renewable power bill
Added by Long Islander on April 13, 2012 at 6:00am — 6 Comments
Monique Aniel BDN Opinion Piece: Baldacci, not LePage, rushed important law
Added by Long Islander on April 12, 2012 at 5:24pm — 1 Comment
Maine regulators OK First Wind deal against advice of staff (Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting)
Maine regulators OK wind deal against advice of staff
By Naomi Schalit and John Christie / Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting…
Added by Long Islander on April 11, 2012 at 7:13am — 12 Comments
Reference to Angus King's Wind Loan Guarantee in Washington Post and Bangor Daily News
Added by Long Islander on April 9, 2012 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment
Verrill Dana and First Wind Walloped by PPDLW and Maine guides
LURC decision leaves First Wind facing first defeat in Maine
Added by Long Islander on April 9, 2012 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments
U.S. Senate Hopeful Angus King Lamely Defends the $102 million Loan he Finagled with the Yale University Endowment
Wind farm loan wasn't a mistake, King says
The U.S. Senate candidate rebuts GOP claims that a federal loan for Record Hill in Roxbury was too risky an investment.
By Jonathan Riskind …
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 1, 2012 at 10:00am — 2 Comments
Blowing in the wind: Maine’s energy past and future
Blowing in the wind: Maine’s energy past and future
Last modified March 30, 2012, at 9:18 p.m.…
Added by Long Islander on March 31, 2012 at 11:30am — 1 Comment
U.S. Senate Hopeful Angus King asks "Where's Molly"?
Angus King lectures the unwashed commoner that if we don't allow his feckless wind turbines to destroy our Gardens of Eden in Maine, we are contributing to global warming.
We have of course proven this 100% false. The turbines displace virtually no CO2.
But take a look at Angus's 40" RV that guzzles gas like no other.
Its name is Molly.
But perhaps a better name would be the "Do…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on March 25, 2012 at 8:00pm — 7 Comments
Latest Blog Posts
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- New Maine law directs millions of dollars to climate resilience
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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
******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********
(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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