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Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting - Energy group funded via state agency hired mostly Dem lawmakers, activists
Added by Long Islander on February 7, 2011 at 9:12am — No Comments
State's sole industrial wind turbine experiment racks up a 6.1% capacity factor for first month of 2011
One month ago, on January 1, 2011, the UMPI website had gone blooey, showing no data, so as a surrogate for 1/1/11, we'll use the KWH recorded on 12/29/10 - 1,029,982. To see the 12/29/10 production, please look at the Excel screenshot dated 12/29/10 at
http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/umpi-wind-turbine-2011
Today, project to date KWH's stand at…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on February 5, 2011 at 10:00pm — No Comments
Arlene Gray Trudel: ‘Wind machines are out of place in the forest’
http://www.kjonline.com/opinion/letters/Wind-machines-are-out-of-place-in-the-forest-.html
‘Wind machines are out of place in the forest’
One of the groups opposing Industrial Wind’s intrusion on inland Maine (Friends Of The Highland Mountains)…
Added by Long Islander on February 3, 2011 at 12:31pm — 2 Comments
Wind Projects Backed By Tax Credits, Subsidies
Added by Long Islander on February 3, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments
Maine's Ocean Energy Institute Closes its Doors
Rockland's Ocean Energy Institute Closes its Doors 01/31/2011 02:49 PM ET
The ocean energy think tank suffered a blow in August with the death of founder Matthew Simmons.
A Rockland think tank that promotes ocean energy, including deep-water offshore wind power, will close its doors today.
The Ocean Energy Institute was founded in 2007 by the late Matthew Simmons, an internationally-known energy investment banker. The decision to close the institute was made after…
Added by Long Islander on January 31, 2011 at 3:00pm — No Comments
Energy program shut down after questions raised about politics, effectiveness
Added by Long Islander on January 30, 2011 at 12:24pm — No Comments
Ocean Energy Institute to close its doors in one week
Added by Long Islander on January 24, 2011 at 12:30am — 2 Comments
Mainers cooling to oil heat
I read this article in today's Portland Press-Herald and had to laugh that after years of Governor Baldacci and NRCM telling us that wind power will "help get Maine off of foreign oil", there is nary a mention of wind or electricity in an article about reduced oil usage. Of course the reason for this is that wind won't displace a drop of oil and the only things wind will succeed at is driving Maine's already high non-competitive electricity costs through the roof, despoiling our quality of…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on January 3, 2011 at 9:37am — No Comments
Maine’s Wind Goals, CO2 and the Forest
Please click on the PDF file below entitled "Maine’s Wind Goals, CO2 and the Forest." The document is intended to put Governor Baldacci's wind goals into perspective.
MainesWindGoalsCO2andtheForest_12-30-10.pdf
NRCM has published figures on CO2…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on December 30, 2010 at 7:00am — No Comments
Do Bats Need To Be Under Assault from White-Nose Syndrome AND Wind Turbines?
The following is excerpted from an article in today's Maine Sunday Telegram. Bats are under serious pressure from White-Nose Syndrome. Do we really need additional bat mortality from wind turbine caused barotrauma?
"Biologists say fewer bats, which eat insects, could lead to increased numbers of pests, resulting in harm to agriculture and forests. It is anticipated that white-nose syndrome will continue to spread, partly because the fungus can be carried on humans'…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on December 26, 2010 at 2:30am — No Comments
A Wind Power Boonedoggle - T. Boone Pickens badly misjudged the supply and price of natural gas
- DECEMBER 22, 2010
A Wind Power Boonedoggle
T. Boone Pickens badly misjudged the supply and price of natural gas.
- By…
Added by Long Islander on December 22, 2010 at 12:00am — No Comments
Bird Migration Study Could Impact Windpower Siting Off Maine Coast
Added by Long Islander on December 21, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments
WSJ: The Wind Subsidy Bubble
- DECEMBER 20, 2010
The Wind Subsidy Bubble
Green pork should be a GOP budget target.
Ethanol isn't the only heavily subsidized energy source that won a multibillion dollar jackpot in last week's tax deal. The other big winner was the wind industry, which received a one year extension of a $3 billion grant program for renewable energy projects.…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on December 20, 2010 at 1:24pm — 3 Comments
E-mail or fax members of your Congressional delegation today and ask that they let the 1603 grant program expire
WindAction Editorial
An exclusive feature of WindAction.org
Please tell Congress: No more billions for big wind
(Posted December 9, 2010)
The pressure is on to finalize the proposed tax bill before Congress that would extend the Bush-era tax cuts for all Americans. Last minute amendments are expected in order to garner…
Added by Long Islander on December 10, 2010 at 2:08am — 1 Comment
Maine Voices (Donald Smith): An 82-year-old got tired of spitting into the wind, went out on a limb
Maine Voices: An 82-year-old got tired of spitting into the wind, went out on a limb
By risking arrest to oppose wind power, he drew attention from media far and wide.
LINCOLN - My name is Donald Smith. I am 82 years old…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on December 6, 2010 at 4:51am — 2 Comments
Industrial Wind Action Group: AWEA's employment claims questioned
Industrial Wind Action Group: AWEA's employment claims questioned
Data supporting the American Wind Energy Association's employment claims are spongy at best.
In 2007, AWEA touted that the industry represented 50,000 employees in the U.S., a figure that jumped to 85,000 in 2008. Twenty thousand of these jobs were in manufacturing but according to AWEA CEO, Denise Bode, this dropped by 1500-2000 jobs in 2009 due to…
Added by Long Islander on November 25, 2010 at 12:30am — No Comments
Dr. Monique Aniel: Wind power’s assault on Maine
Dr. Monique…
Added by Long Islander on November 24, 2010 at 8:00am — 4 Comments
UMPI President Don Zillman: "On a 1-10 scale I give the UMPI turbine an 11".
On MPBN Maine Watch's "Wind's of Change" special, Part 2, with Jennifer Rooks, UMPI president Donald Zillman, the driving force behind this $2 million expenditure of public funds, stated "On a 1 to 10 scale, I give this project an 11". The reality is that this project has performed at an 11 on a 1-100 scale.
As in 11% - see the math below.
Again, 1 + 1 = 2, not whatever feels right to you…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on November 20, 2010 at 11:30am — 14 Comments
NY Times: Decades of residential and commercial power at reasonable prices
There Will Be Fuel
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/business/energy-environment/17FUEL.html?scp=4&sq=Energy&st=cse
By…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on November 18, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments
Kennebunkport About To Get Sacoed or Kitteryed?
Someone may want to let Ms. Lachance know that we don't burn coal in Maine.
Wind turbine passes, project will go to bid
Staff Writer…
Added by Long Islander on November 16, 2010 at 2:00am — 3 Comments
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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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