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Please tell Congress: No more billions for big wind

(Posted December 9, 2010)

Posted: December 6, 2010

Updated: Today at 1:14 AM

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…

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…

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…

There Will Be Fuel

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/business/energy-environment/17FUEL.html?scp=4&sq=Energy&st=cse

By…

Someone may want to let Ms. Lachance know that we don't burn coal in Maine.

Wind turbine passes, project will go to bid

Today marks 18 months of the University of Maine’s wind turbine experiment and the percentage of capacity achieved is an abysmal 11.39%.



There is nothing wrong with the university having embarked on this experiment. What is wrong is that the university and state have not yet applied the learning. Think about it. The state’s ONLY experiment with wind turbine production shows a striking failure, but the university claims it to be a great success. You cannot do this. One plus…

In case you missed Maine Watch with Jennifer Rooks last night, which featured Part 1 of their new two part series entitled "Winds of Change", you can tune in online at:

http://video.mainepublic.org/video/1641658515/?_ga=2.199893870.1941658146.1516459956-1499375026.1507212416

Simply click on…

One of the incessantly repeated lies spread by the wind industry is that wind power will get the United States off of foreign oil and if we just let them put their several thousand turbines up in the Maine countryside, it will keep our troops out of harm's way. The press shamefully keeps repeating this lie despite the fact that we have many times explained to them precisely why this is simply not true.

The…

MPBN: Do you approve of the state's current wind power policy? And, would you like to see the approval process either speeded up or perhaps slowed down to take account of complaints?

MITCHELL: Again, wind power is also balancing. You're trying to create clean energy.…

Success of First Wind’s $300 million IPO is up in the air

No wind power, no trails…

10/8/10

Follow law, not wind

George Baker’s recent comments to the press strike the wrong chord for those of us who have spent the last year living with the turbine noise in Vinalhaven. Baker, of Fox Islands Wind and the Island Institute, claims he is committed to running the turbines in compliance. However, on Sept. 14, he is quoted in the BDN: “He told the Associated Press on Tuesday that slowing down the turbines’ blades to lower the noise level by a couple of…

Maine geeting card company Borealis Press says on its website:

"Objecting to windmills when the alternative is fossil or nuclear fuel is dumb beyond thought."

http://www.borealispress.net/About-Borealis/The-Environment

Apparently 100% of the electricity that Surry, ME based Borealis Press uses derives from wind energy. I guess like the Stetson mountain…