By Fred Bever 12/12/19

A new task force will convene for the first time Thursday to consider how and where to lease potentially vast swathes of the Gulf of Maine to offshore wind-energy developers. The outcome could have big consequences for Maine's fishing industry, and for the state's role in the next wave of renewable energy development.

An earlier round of auctions awarded leases in federal waters off southern New England, where several large-scale wind projects…

Hydro-Quebec, the Canadian energy company poised to supply hydropower to a proposed transmission line through western Maine, is joining a campaign to defeat a referendum that could scuttle the $1 billion project at the ballot box next year.

The company’s relationship with the provincial government of Quebec could draw protests from project opponents who see it as a foreign attempt to influence an election.

However, the Hydro-Quebec effort appears to be legal because Maine…

President Trump's son has chimed in on TIME's decision to name Greta Thunberg as Person of the Year, noting a significant 'other' that are fighting for their lives too...

"Time leaves out the Hong Kong Protesters fighting for their lives and freedoms to push a teen being used as a marketing gimmick. How dare you?"

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While many among the resistance must have been hoping for "The Whistleblower" to be crowned, TIME Magazine…

This article explains in detail how the efficiencies of wood stoves are calculated using the higher heating value or lower heating value of the fuel. In case of condensing wood stoves, the higher heating value must be used.

The US uses higher heating value, HHV, as the basis for calculating efficiency, Europe uses lower heating value, LHV.

This leads to European stoves having calculated efficiencies greater than US stoves, which deceives lay people in the US,…

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:

Another Round of Energy Pork

With climate change Science and Economics should be paramount

Ontario saves $500± Million by dumping wind turbines

Expect the ECB to Use a “Climate Crisis” to Justify Their Next Stimulus Plan

Rolls Royce wants innovative financing for its first-of-a-kind nuclear SMRs

Short video: Gates Goes Nuclear

Bitter Cold Stops Coal, While Nuclear Power Excels

Nuclear Power isn’t…

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds can not be used if they create: "a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety."

Falmouth Massachusetts USA

12/7/19

Andrew R. Wheeler is the Administrator of the United States federal government's Environmental…

"There have been no complaints about the existing wind farm, other than those few people that just plain hate wind towers and don’t want to look at them".

By Eesha Pendharkar, BDN Staff • December 6, 2019 1:00 am

Updated: December 6, 2019 7:16 am

Years ago, when the Clifton Planning Board was considering an application that would allow Pisgah Mountain LLC to build five wind turbines, Chair Bruce Jellison decided to do his own research. He…

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Danish Academic: U.N. Might Use Military to Enforce Climate Agenda

The United Nations may resort to military action against states that defy its mandates on global climate action, according to Ole Wæver, a prominent international relations professor at the University of Copenhagen.

In an…

Climate Depot’s Marc Morano, who plans to attend the Madrid summit, accused China of leveraging the global-warming issue to hobble its international competition while boosting its own image.

“China is at it again, posing as a ‘climate’ concerned country while building seemingly endless new coal mines,” Mr. Morano said. “China’s false image as some kind of climate champion is aided and abetted by the media and climate activists. China is enjoying condemning the U.S. while also…

by Tux Turkel

"There are ways, according to Kurt Adams, president and chief executive at Summit Natural Gas, one of the state’s gas distribution companies."

11/30/19

Maine could be a prime location for a pilot project that converts surplus electricity from wind farms and other renewable generators into a gas that can be stored in underground pipelines.

Such a project would help solve a growing problem, a top gas company executive told…

by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.29 Nov 2019

Climate change alarmists are pushing for a change in vocabulary to scare people into taking global warming more seriously, starting with terms like “global meltdown” and “climate collapse.”

Writing for AdAge this week, Aaron Hall argues…

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:

NYS Health Board advocates 1.5 setbacks and 35 dBA noise limits

Short video: True Costs of Renewables – the Texas Lesson

When wind turbines die, the problems are just beginning

10 Times the Wind Industry Claimed it Supported Ending Its Tax Credits

The NY Governor’s well paid wind-power liars

Wind ‘on its knees’ as profits vanish, says industry pioneer

Weighing the Cost of Offshore Wind

Wind…

Today, House Democrats released a green energy tax extenders package filled with various wasteful and distortionary tax provisions.…

Dartmouth College was planning to replace the existing oil-fired central steam heating plant with a tree-burning hot water heating plant.

Dartmouth College held several public meetings during which there were numerous objections from nearby residents regarding the up to 16 eighteen-wheelers per day delivering wood chips, and regarding the harmful air pollution of the plant.

Dartmouth College present and former environmental professors also were opposed to the wood-burning…

Bipartisan legislation also cosponsored by senators from six east coast states currently participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)