By Susan Cover Maine

PUBLISHED 9:10 AM ET Jul. 21, 2023

Jeffrey and Margaret Dyer own 83 acres in Palermo and on a clear day, they can see Mount Washington in the distance.

The land has been in Jeffrey’s family for 150 years and they someday hope to give their four children parcels if they decide to raise their families in Waldo County too.

But on Thursday, the Dyers stood outside the Commercial Exhibits building at the Windsor Fairgrounds holding a piece of paper…

Jobs? BS. It's always the same wind industry propaganda about jobs when in fact almost all the jobs are temporary and the real paydays are ultimately just for the scoundrel wind companies and their financial backers. They could care less about jobs, Mainers or Maine. They are good at one thing though --- lying. And they excel at "getting to" the right people in government. Follow the money......in some cases all the way from Aroostook County and Augusta to offshore…

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*** Report: Solar Panels Are More Carbon-Intensive Than Experts Admit

*** There Is NO Transition

*** Rural electrification is America’s greatest infrastructure…

Does anyone believe Maine's compromised legislators, regulators, environmental groups and media when they tell you the wind developers won't cut and run when doing so suits their needs?

6 of 10 turbines out of commission at P.E.I. wind farm, government says

'We can't have $60 million projects go adrift,' says neighbour of Hermanville site

Kerry Campbell · CBC News ·…

Personally, I believe that the dunderheaded, grift propelled and dangerously reckless plunge off the cliff should become a top election issue in 2024 at all levels of government. Bear in mind that the "everything must be electric" sheep march is occurring at a time when electricity prices for Mainers are surging upwards. Does anyone want to guess where electricity prices will go if the central planners succeed at forcing us to power our driving with…

Many of Maine's newspapers are set to be acquired as described at

Nonprofit trust buying Press Herald, other Maine newspapers in landmark deal

The name of the outfit is the National Trust for Local News.

Their latest annual report can be read here:…

Updated July 13

The National Trust for Local News has agreed to purchase 5 of the state’s 6 daily papers and 17 of its weeklies in an effort to preserve local journalism.

BY RACHEL OHM STAFF WRITER

A national nonprofit plans to take over ownership of five of Maine’s six daily newspapers as part of a landmark deal that could help preserve local news across the state.…

BY EMMA KILBRIDE

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State legislation expanding offshore wind development in the Gulf of Maine has received a committee endorsement and is expected to be voted on soon in the House and Senate.

The bill sponsored by Sen. Mark Lawrence, D-York, sets up a schedule for the state to procure 3 gigawatts of electricity from offshore wind turbines by 2040, an amount that could power nearly 900,000…

Map: Google

Apologies for the late notice as I just came across this now. Not a lot of lead time with the article only published the day before the start of these meetings.

Maine Public | By Murray Carpenter

Published July 10, 2023 at 4:16 PM EDT…

Protect Our Coast NJ and other groups will join hands on the beach to show their opposition of offshore wind development.

Veronica Flesher

Jul 11, 2023

7/5/23

By Miriam Wasser - WBUR

This story was originally produced by WBUR. We are republishing it in partnership with the New England News Collaborative.

Many states in the Northeast have ambitious clean energy goals to help fight climate change. In the coming decades, they plan to add a lot more renewable energy like wind and solar to the grid, and to use electricity instead of fossil fuels to power vehicles and heat buildings.

But right now, the electrical…

7/5/23

The site of a failed 5,400-acre wind farm in northern Penobscot County that sold for $3.25 million recently is the largest and most expensive piece of land in Maine sold so far this year, according to real estate records.

The Carroll Plantation plot includes both peaks and the ridgeline of Bowers Mountain and the northern slopes and most of the western and eastern terrain of Getchell Mountain. The location made news 10 years ago when the former owner and a…

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Pothole damage from electric cars is double that of gas vehicles

Time to accept that wind turbine costs are not falling

Wind costs will remain high

Sweden Dumps Climate Agenda,…

Virginia Allen / @Virginia_Allen5 / June 29, 2023

New England fishermen are facing growing regulations—from the amount of fish they are allowed to catch to large sections of ocean they can no longer work because of “offshore wind development.”

“The New England fishermen are the most regulated fishermen in the world,” Jerry Leeman says. Leeman has been fishing in Maine his entire life. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all fishermen.

The National Oceanic…

June 26, 2023

The bill originated from the governor's office but was amended on the Senate floor this month to include a requirement that future projects include bargaining argreements, something she opposes.

BY ERIC RUSSELL STAFF WRITER

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Gov. Janet Mills has vetoed her first bill of the 131st…

BY KAY NEUFELD

PRESS HERALD

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U.S. Rep. Jared Golden has introduced a bill that would bar commercial offshore wind energy development in a key fishing area along the coast of Maine.

The bill would prevent the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management from potentially hurting the fishing and lobstering industries in Maine, said Golden, D-2nd District. The legislation would ban wind energy development in Lobster Management Area 1, which is the…

by Billy Kobin

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AUGUSTA, Maine — The Democratic-led Maine House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill to pare back Maine’s generous solar incentives amid increasing utility rates, an issue that has pitted the solar industry against the state’s public advocate.

The bill from Sen. Mark Lawrence, D-Eliot, won House approval in a tight 69-65 vote after also passing the Senate in a mostly party-line vote…

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*** Ramping up wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles can’t solve our energy

problem

*** Models Hide the Shortcomings of Wind and Solar

*** Solar Panels: The Unspoken…

Longroad continues to take taxpayers and ratepayers for a long ride. See the old First Wind crony capitalists here: https://www.longroadenergy.com/about-us/team/

If wind projects are the crime, the extraordinarily high price tag transmission is the getaway car.

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6/13/23

The construction of a high-voltage transmission line connecting northern Maine to ISO-New England got…