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Robert Bryce: The Wind-Energy Myth
The Wind-Energy Myth
The claims for this “green” source of energy wither in the Texas heat.
Hot? Don’t count on wind energy to cool you down. That’s the lesson emerging from the…
Added by Long Islander on August 12, 2011 at 4:18pm — No Comments
Smart meter opposition grows (New Maine Times)
Smart meter opposition grows
AUGUSTA — Further opposition to smart meters grew early this week when 19 CMP ratepayers filed a formal complaint against Central Maine Power (CMP) and the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC). While the 23-page complaint touches on many negative aspects of the meters, it focuses most on…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on August 11, 2011 at 5:15pm — 2 Comments
Sadie Fournier: Frankfort selectmen sold out
Protect our townspeople
The Frankfort selectmen’s actions should be another red flag for our town and other towns in Maine in regard to companies such as Eolian. Their goal is to sell us their product and ensure their profit. Eolian is highly motivated to conduct their research. It is a race for time against any potential future restrictions voted in by the town.
Our selectmen sold out. Eolian CEO Jack Kenworthy reports the actions and wishes of the people are unlawful and…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on August 7, 2011 at 9:14pm — 1 Comment
Direct Federal Financial Interventions and Subsidies in Energy in Fiscal Year 2010
Direct Federal Financial Interventions and Subsidies in Energy in Fiscal Year 2010
Release date: August 1, 2011
Executive Summary
Background
This report responds to a November 2010 request to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) from U.S. Representatives Roscoe G. Bartlett, Marsha Blackburn, and Jason Chaffetz for an update to a 2008 report prepared by EIA that provided a snapshot of direct federal financial interventions…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on August 5, 2011 at 2:45am — No Comments
SMART METER OPPOSITION GROWS
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Added by Long Islander on August 5, 2011 at 1:30am — No Comments
First Wind Blows Off Land For Maine's Future Acquisition
"Let's improve the forever wild characteristics with strobe lights"
Added by Long Islander on August 3, 2011 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment
The Great Green Wind Scam (Journal-Tribune York County)
The great green wind scam
Director, Forest Ecology Network
Mountaintop industrial wind development in Maine is both an ecological disaster and economic boondoggle. The mountaintop wind developers, or as I like to call them, “the mountain slayers and profiteers,” are foisting upon the state…
Added by Long Islander on August 3, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments
UMS Board of Trustees Approved UMPI Turbine in "Lovefest"
"The University prepared carefully for a discussion of the wind project at the September meeting of the Trustees. It asked permission for a $2 million total cost project that would install a mid-size wind turbine on campus property. The president and CFO were armed with data and prepared for the wide variety of questions that the project could legitimately have raised, including the possibility of instinctive dislike of wind power or too bold a campus entrepreneurial activity. Instead of…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on August 2, 2011 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment
Robert Bryce References Rollins
Added by Long Islander on August 1, 2011 at 7:53pm — 1 Comment
T. Boone’s Windy Misadventure And the Global Backlash Against Wind Energy
T. Boone’s Windy Misadventure And the Global Backlash Against Wind Energy
Posted on Jul. 28, 2011
Three years ago this month, T. Boone…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on July 28, 2011 at 10:30pm — No Comments
Reaction to Mainebiz's interview with former Gov. Angus King
Reaction to Mainebiz's interview with former Gov. Angus King on his Highland Wind project
07/21/11
Mainebiz's July 11 interview with former Gov. Angus King about his Highland Wind project prompted the following letters to the editor.
Read the Q&A, "Waiting for winds of change."
To the editor:
I have…
Added by Long Islander on July 26, 2011 at 10:18am — No Comments
Dennis J. Mahar: Stop and analyze wind power projects before building more
Stop and analyze wind power projects before building more
Added by Long Islander on July 20, 2011 at 7:00am — No Comments
University of Maine Wind Turbine - Year to Date Summary of Data Reporting
The temperature is headed for close to 90 degrees today. Of course at a times like this when the air conditioners go on, the wind doesn't tend to blow very much. But heck, why get bogged down in such details?
Added by Long Islander on July 17, 2011 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment
Vast wind energy proposal could kill endangered birds
Added by Long Islander on July 15, 2011 at 2:06pm — No Comments
Insiders: Debt-Ceiling Deal Imperils All Energy Subsidies
Added by Long Islander on July 14, 2011 at 3:42pm — No Comments
Watch "Windfall" in Waterville next Week - Maine International Film Festival
Two screenings of the critically acclaimed "Windfall" are currently planned for the Maine International Film Festival in Waterville. The first is next Friday at 6:30PM.
Please make it a point to see this long awaited film, tell all your friends and perhaps ask your legislators if they'd like to go to the movies with…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on July 9, 2011 at 9:30am — No Comments
Maine Guide F. Lee Corrigan Stands up for the Maine Woods as Slick Portland Lawyer Stumbles
VIDEO
Impact on wildlife focus of LURC’s hearing on Bowers Mountain wind project
By Nick Sambides Jr., BDN Staff
Added by Long Islander on July 6, 2011 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment
Governor LePage Vows to Lower State's Energy Costs
Maine Governor Vows to Lower State's Energy Costs |
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Added by Long Islander on July 1, 2011 at 5:36pm — No Comments
Clyde MacDonald: Forest fires and wind turbines: The danger no one is talking about
CONTRIBUTORS
Forest fires and wind turbines: The danger no one is talking about
Added by Long Islander on June 30, 2011 at 8:13am — 1 Comment
Spain's Iberdrola Destroying at Least 60 Maine Osprey Nests with its Wind-Required Transmission
CMP to remove osprey nests
By Betty Adams badams@centralmaine.com
Staff Writer
LITCHFIELD -- Ospreys nesting atop tall utility poles in Litchfield have a nonfeathered champion in…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on June 28, 2011 at 1:00am — 1 Comment
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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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