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Public Advocate Barry Hobbins to retire after decades in public office/Hamptons wind site nixed by feds

Next year would mark a whopping 50 years for the politician.

Barry Hobbins, a longtime state legislator from Saco and currently Maine’s Public Advocate, announced Thursday that he will retire when his term ends in June.

Hobbins, a lawyer, has had a long career in public office, serving 13 terms in the Maine House and Senate dating back to 1972. He was appointed public advocate – representing the public’s interests on issues before the Maine Public Utilities…

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Added by Long Islander on April 16, 2021 at 9:30am — No Comments

Watch The Freedom Conference - April 16 & 17 Tulsa, OK (Being streamed)

Individual videos of each speaker to be posted later this week on Brighteon.…



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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on April 14, 2021 at 10:00pm — 11 Comments

Sierra Club asks EPA to cut dairy farm methane emissions

"It makes sense that every source of greenhouse gas emissions should come under scrutiny."

- Would that include climate czar John Kerry's private jets or his family's private jet charter company?

April 12, 2021 

by Guy Page

The Vermont chapter of the Sierra Club is standing with the national Sierra Club petition to the Biden administration to regulate dairy farms of 500 or more cows under the Clean Air Act, due to air pollution and climate…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on April 12, 2021 at 3:00pm — No Comments

NYSERDA chief to feds: No wind farms off Hamptons

Meanwhile, residents of interior Maine are lucky if monstrous wind turbines are not shoved to within a thousand feet of their homes.

The Maine legislature's idea of protecting "Vacationland" residents

New York State will emphasize its position that windfarms off the…

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Added by Long Islander on April 10, 2021 at 4:00pm — 6 Comments

IER Releases Update to Big Green, Inc. Database

IER Releases Update to Big Green, Inc. Database

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Added by Dan McKay on April 9, 2021 at 5:01pm — 4 Comments

LePage considering a run for Governor

Send him your thoughts.  

https://mainegop.com/lepagemessage/

Added by Steve Thurston on April 9, 2021 at 2:21pm — 6 Comments

Backlash from US states to clean energy agenda

Republican lawmakers try to thwart president’s green revamp of nation’s electricity system 


In Texas, where the legislature has been consumed by the blackout debacle, bills introduced by state House Republicans would tax renewable energy projects, keep new wind turbines at least a mile apart and require solar and wind farms to procure back-up…
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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on April 9, 2021 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Maine counties chafe at lower-than-expected payments from wind farms

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By Bill Trotter | Bangor Daily News | April 8, 2021

For nearly two decades, commercial wind farms have been touted in Maine as a way to generate electricity without pollution, and as a way rural locales in Maine can generate revenue for themselves by hosting turbines worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

But several counties and towns are finding out they are getting less revenue out of the wind projects than they…

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Added by Long Islander on April 8, 2021 at 4:00pm — 11 Comments

HIGH COSTS OF WIND, SOLAR, AND BATTERY SYSTEMS IN NEW ENGLAND

Any transition from fossil fuels to low-CO2 sources, such as wind, solar, nuclear, hydro and biomass, could occur, only if the low-CO2 sources are: 1) abundantly available everywhere, and 2) low-cost, and 3) as reliable as fossil fuels.

 

This article presents the all-in cost of wind, solar and battery systems in New England

The all-in costs are much greater than reported by the Media, etc.

Much of the cost…

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Added by Willem Post on March 25, 2021 at 1:30pm — 10 Comments

Tensions Where Green Jobs Meet Blue Collars (Real Clear Investigations)

The construction workers who traveled to central Kansas to erect a wind farm for utility giant American Electric Power thought it would be a good job. Then they fell victim to the troubling side of the renewable power industry.



The nomadic band of workers had come to the Flat Ridge III project from Texas, Michigan and other states to install 62 turbines with towers as tall as 300 feet using cranes and heavy machinery. But after a few months the project broke…

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Added by Long Islander on March 24, 2021 at 10:30am — No Comments

They are called "Unreliables" for a Reason-Texans and Californians Know Why .A Little Kindergarten Science

Ask a Kindergartener what happens to a pinwheel if the Wind does Not blow?

You will get the Correct answer. But not if you are a Wind or Green Energy aficionado!

Spend more money on it they say?...Your money! Add Anti-Freeze perhaps?

When the Wind doesn't Blow(or the Sun does Not Shine) They Don't Work, when you need them to.

And No ,American Wind Energy Association bloggers, Anti-Freeze Won't Help!

"The grid nearly failed because of an…

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Added by arthur qwenk on March 24, 2021 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

Team Biden Planning $3 Trillion Infrastructure, Climate, and Welfare Bill

President Joe Biden’s White House team is drafting a massive $3 trillion infrastructure spending deal, according to reports, but most of the spending will be directed toward social welfare programs.

The New York Times previewed the spending plan on Tuesday,…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on March 23, 2021 at 11:00am — No Comments

Lobstermen circle survey vessel as wind protests escalate

By Fred Bever | Maine Public | March 22, 2021 | www.mainepublic.org ~~

Protests over wind energy development off the coast of Maine changed course today. Several fishing boats reportedly circled a survey vessel off Monhegan Island, and federal and state law enforcement responded.

Lobsterman Larry Reed posted video on Facebook Monday morning of the Go Liberty, a 150-foot survey vessel, as it appeared to draw near lobster buoys in the…

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Added by Long Islander on March 22, 2021 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Hey Maine Revenue Services, Tax Them More! Don't Tax You, Don't Tax Me, Tax That Wind Turbine Uprooting That Tree! !

Wind Company Interlopers, with the blessings  of the dumbed down "Green Dream" left wing progressive legislature run by the democrat graft machine (with cooperation of republicans who often will not take an aggressive oppositional stance in the state), have royally screwed the average Mainer, regularly and routinely with these…

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Added by arthur qwenk on March 20, 2021 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

Franklin County to repay state for wind farm tax abatement

By Donna M. Perry | Sun Journal

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According to a letter sent to Helix Maine Wind Development on March 4 by the Maine Revenue Services Property Tax Division, the state reduced the valuation of the 44-turbine facility by $54.86 million. As a result, a refund of $469,611.60 is warranted for property in the townships of Wyman, Jim Pond, Kibby, Chain of Ponds and Skinner for tax year 2020, according to supervisor Lisa Whynot’s letter to Helix. The refund to Helix is expected…

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Added by Long Islander on March 20, 2021 at 10:52am — 3 Comments

Mount Desert - "They’re humongous. They just dwarf everything we’ve ever seen"

March 18, 2021 by Sarah Hinckley

MOUNT DESERT — As Maine lobster fishermen are working to navigate regulations for the safety of right whales and the effects of global warming on the industry, they are now being asked to share their territory with wind turbines.

“There’s so many different reasons to oppose it,” said Jack Merrill, a resident of Mount Desert and a member of the Cranberry Isles Fishermen’s Co-op who has made his living as a lobster fisherman…

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Added by Long Islander on March 20, 2021 at 10:30am — 2 Comments

Lisa Linowes: The founders of Windaction.org have launched the Wildlife, Energy & Community Coalition (WECC).



Join the Wildlife, Energy & Community Coalition

Many of you may already be aware that that the founders of Windaction.org have launched the Wildlife, Energy & Community Coalition…

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Added by Long Islander on March 18, 2021 at 6:52pm — 2 Comments

The Social Cost of Climate Tyranny

How stupid does this "elite" coterie of idiots think we are? After losing four years in the implementation of their new world order criminal plan to Trump's America, the globalist con artists have put all of their efforts on overdrive. Pushing carbon taxes based on their "settled science" of global warming is not going to sit well with most Americans when they realize what is really going on - the biggest attempted heist in the history of the world.

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on March 14, 2021 at 9:00am — 3 Comments

Maine fishermen caught in a quandary over offshore wind-array site

The criminals of Wall Street march on relentlessly in pursuit of free money in one of the greatest con games of all time. It's amazing what can be done with a lying media, compromised government and a sleeping citizenry.

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The state has identified an oval-shaped "area of interest" for the project, southeast of Casco Bay. To the west, the area crosses onto traditional fishing grounds called Jeffrey’s Basin and Platts Bank. Another fishing area, Mistaken Ground, is…

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Added by Long Islander on March 12, 2021 at 2:27pm — 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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