Long Islander's Blog (3,020)

by Peter A. Thalheim

October 24, 2023

The opinion piece on September 21 in CTMirror by the State Director of the Sierra Club Connecticut was an unfortunate exercise in gaslighting in support of electric vehicles.

We all do and should love the environment. We only have one. But we should not overstate our argument lest we undermine effective longer term changes in consumption methods to better help our environment. And we should keep environmental equity in mind. We should…

Maine Public | By Murray Carpenter

Published October 16, 2023 at 6:43 AM EDT

Nearly 100 opponents of a power line that would connect southern Aroostook County to central Maine rallied in Augusta Saturday afternoon.

The 1,200-megawatt power line would run from Glenwood Plantation to Coopers Mills, sending electricity south from a 1,000-megawatt wind farm that's proposed for Aroostook County.

The Public Utilities Commission accepted LS…

By Mary Lhowe / October 6, 2023 / ecori.org ~~

Green Oceans, the Rhode Island citizens group that fiercely opposes offshore wind farms, is in the midst of a civil lawsuit it has filed against the state Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC), claiming the council violated the constitution, state regulations, and its own responsibilities when it approved the Revolution Wind farm in May.

The lawsuit, being heard in Newport Superior Court, asks the court to vacate the…

Oil industry insider David Blackmon notes the irony of diesel-powered Superchargers, and says rising EV use is a 'huge problem’ for the US power grid.

By Joshua Philipp and Naveen Athrappully

10/9/2023

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Tesla’s biggest EV Supercharger station in the United States uses diesel power to charge vehicles, according to an energy expert who confirmed that these types of diesel-powered stations…

by Alex Kriel and Duncan White

7 October 2023

Advocates of Net Zero policies repeatedly reassure the public that they are advancing cheap, green energy with the promise of vast numbers of lucrative green jobs and world leadership for the U.K. in selected green technologies.

Unfortunately for the hard pressed British electorate, ‘cheap, green energy’ is nothing more than an empty political slogan arrived at by a dishonest sleight of hand. Specifically, the…

Just one more example of totalitarianism disguised as "green". Each of the two projects, a giant wind complex and the transmission it requires, benefits only the hucksters and cause great harm to the people of Maine. Both projects are built on lies, actually big lies. And such big lies are never questioned within the official narratives but rather wholly supported. Thankfully the people are beginning to awaken.

Every single elected official and regulator supporting this…

Perhaps worth bookmarking.

https://www.preserveruralmaine.org/

https://landownersvoicemaine.substack.com/…

September 26, 2023

BY STEPHEN SINGER STAFF WRITER

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.....A land-based wind project bringing power from northern Maine to ISO-New England, the region’s grid operator, has been moving ahead of offshore floating wind projects in the regulatory process.

The planned Aroostook Renewable Gateway project will consist of single-circuit and double-circuit 345 kV transmission lines and substations that will deliver 1,200…

by Lori Valigra

September 25, 2023

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Doug Mulvey and his company, LS Power, wanted to minimize the risk of their multi-billion-dollar bid for a 160-mile transmission line that would bring wind power through Aroostook County and onto the New England grid.

So they asked the Maine Legislature in March to approve the project, and by June they received it. The approval was required…

By Nathan Worcester

9/21/2023

Nathan Worcester covers national politics for The Epoch Times and has also focused on energy and the environment. Nathan has written about everything from fusion energy and ESG to Biden's classified documents and international conservative politics. He lives and works in Chicago.

Kerry's pro-nuclear remarks come as climate-related diplomacy and other climate-themed events overtake New…

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule it.”

    - H.L. Mencken

Fred Fastiggi | September 19, 2023

Offshore wind is fraught with risks both known and unknown. This is not the time to bet the ranch

Fred Fastiggi

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H.L. Mencken once said, “There is always an easy solution to every problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.” He could…

By Michael Bates - September 18, 2023 - nawindpower.com ~~

A group of U.S. governors is calling on the Biden administration to help ease the “extraordinary economic challenges” that have combined to threaten not only future offshore wind development, but also the number of projects that are already under way.

In a letter submitted to the White House, the governors of Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island say “inflationary pressures,…

By Steve Robinson

September 18, 2023 Updated:September 19, 2023

The sole study purporting to show that a massive $4.9 billion Aroostook County wind power project will benefit Maine ratepayers was paid for by the developers of that project and conducted by the former employer of Maine Public Utilities Commissioner Carolyn “Carrie” Gilbert.

In June, Daymark Energy Advisors, a Worcester,…

by Steve Robinson September 14, 2023

"The Legislature and the MPUC have already selected, approved, and endorsed the project and its developers — all with only a guess as to whether it will raise electricity costs in Maine."

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When the 170-turbine 1,000 megawatt King Pine Wind Farm in Aroostook County becomes operational near the end of the decade, the majority of…

By James Varney

September 12, 2023

By James Varney, RealClearInvestigations

September 12, 2023

This is beyond absurd on so many levels.

Dan Neumann September 12, 2023

Not all renewable energy corridors are the same, says Matt Cannon, the state conservation and energy director for Sierra Club Maine, and environmental groups are standing firmly behind the planned Aroostook Renewable Gateway…

Please read the following articles and many, many more at https://election-integrity.info/Newsletter/2023/Media_Balance_Newsletter-9-11-23.pdf

*** America’s Wind-Turbine Revolution Is Broken

The Danger of the ‘Smart’ Car

*** New Wind Energy Costs Blow the Doors Off Projections

Support for offshore wind sinks as costs soar

*** Electricity from wind…

“Rhode Island is supposed to be the Ocean State, not the Windmill State.”

By Josh Christenson | Published Sep. 5, 2023

A plan backed by the Biden administration to OK a string of wind farms off Rhode Island has prompted every member of a fishing regulatory board in the state to resign.

The entire Rhode Island Fisherman’s Advisory Board quit en masse Friday to protest the 84-turbine Sunrise Wind project after the state’s Coastal Resources Management Council…

This is just the cost of wind generated electricity. It doesn't address the many other costs. Wind power doesn't happen if so called representatives, regulators, environmental groups and media actually serve the people. Follow the money to the individuals who's pockets are being lined at everyone else's expense

By Mark Harrington | September 4, 2023 | newsday.com

Proposals could increase wind energy costs 27% to…