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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…

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......lawmakers are considering legislation that furthers the development of not just wind energy generation, but also perhaps, growing an industry to build the components and technology used for that generation, including port facilities.

Rather than leave decisions about the siting and growth of the industry to private companies or the federal government, this legislation would give the state more control over the location and growth of the…

Maine Public | By Kevin Miller

Published June 9, 2023 at 6:44 AM EDT

So the Maine legislators who worry about new dams needing to be built - let me guess, they don't worry about new wind projects I'll bet. Follow the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Some New England lawmakers, including in Maine, are questioning the wisdom of plans to construct new transmission lines across their states, despite Hydro-Québec's insistence it can still meet its energy obligations.

BY SUSAN HAIGH AND WILSON RING ASSOCIATED…

Maine Public | By Murray Carpenter

Published June 8, 2023 at 2:38 PM EDT

A legislative committee on Wednesday approved a bill to boost offshore wind power.

The measure sets a goal for the Public Utilities Commission to contract for 3,000 megawatts of offshore wind energy installed by 2040.

It has the support of a coalition of environmental groups. Eliza Donoghue, of Maine Audubon, says the threats posed by climate change are far greater than those posed by wind…

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There Is No Green “Energy Transition”

The wind and solar power myth has finally been exposed

How much wind killing do we want?

New Study: Wind Turbines Dry Out…

Albany trying to keep up with Sacramento perhaps.

https://capandinvest.ny.gov/…

Globe and Mail|Ivan Semeniuk and Wendy Stueck|May 11, 2023

Wind turbines – towering emblems of the shift toward renewable energy – have been cited as a primary reason why three of Canada’s native bats species are in existential peril. ...“There’s lots of indication that all three [bats] have been precipitously declining,” said Stephen Petersen, director of conservation and research at Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park Zoo, who co-chairs the committee’s work on terrestrial…

by Lori Valigra

May 18, 2023

A New York-based energy company recently bought 15 solar projects from Bangor through southern Maine because of handsome state incentives.

But efforts to cut those incentives are giving the company, Aspen Power, which is backed by prominent private equity firms, second thoughts about expanding further in the state.

Maine’s solar incentive program started with a new law in 2019 that generated so much interest from…

One bill lays out a detailed state path to promote floating offshore wind that will help Maine meet its climate goals and create jobs, while the other seeks to use the state's power to keep the industry out of the Gulf of Maine where fishermen earn their living.

BY PENELOPE OVERTON STAFF WRITER

Floating offshore wind continues to divide state lawmakers struggling to figure out if the burgeoning industry holds the answer to Maine’s climate and economic…

We have been saying for almost 14 years that grid scale storage of electricity is 40 years off if at all. Right now, despite endless noise/propaganda from the windies and solar shysters, it does not exist. And what about the COSTS $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ of all these Rube Goldberg battery hookups and, while you're at it, what about the COSTS $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ of all the new transmission required exclusively for wind and solar?…