We know that the infamous Wind Law of Maine, PL-661 (which still stands today) was forced through w/o discussion in 2008 by Governor Baldacci et al. As corrupting as the law has been, as destructive and useless as the wind scam has been, nothing can compare to these two videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQMqHaR9N5k&ab_channel=BlazeTV…
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Added by arthur qwenk on November 19, 2020 at 5:30pm —
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Meet The Dutch Climate Refugees Fleeing ‘Unbearably Noisy’ Wind Farms
The first Dutch climate refugees are a fact. Not because of wet feet, but because citizens cannot cope with the noise of wind farms.
Residents close to biomass power stations also complain bitterly. Are health and the environment in the Netherlands subordinate to our climate goals? “I do see a similarity with the Groningen gas and the Limburg…
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Added by Long Islander on November 19, 2020 at 9:00am —
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Solar systems have their highest electricity production at midday.
The surge of production from near-zero to maximum causes disturbances on the grid, aka DUCK-curves.
Southern California and Southern Germany, with high MW of installed solar, have major DUCK-curves on sunny days.
At present, mostly gas-fired, combined-cycle gas-turbine (CCGT) power plants are used to counteract the DUCK-curve surges.
In California, the shutdowns of 15 of 19 coastal, CCGT…
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Added by Willem Post on November 18, 2020 at 5:00pm —
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UPDATE on 11/19/20 at 2:10PM If you did not watch this news conference, the OPENING STATEMENT of the Trump legal team today, 11/19/20, it's posted at the following weblink for your viewing convenience. I encourage you to watch this before the, now desperate flailing and drowning mainstream media tells you what to think of it.…
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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 16, 2020 at 8:30am —
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Mills Administration Releases Report on Strengthening Maine’s Clean Energy Economy
November 9, 2020
Maine’s bold renewable energy and climate change policies are supporting economic growth and workforce demands in thriving clean energy industry, new report finds.
A new report from the Governor’s Energy Office and Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future offers a detailed analysis of the…
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Added by Long Islander on November 10, 2020 at 12:21am —
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Maine’s largest-ever procurement of renewable-power contracts was hailed in September as a historic step on a path to reaching ambitious climate change goals. But today, those contracts are under fire from two dissatisfied developers.
The developers question whether the selection process was flawed, whether customers will get the lowest possible rates and whether some of the winning projects could be delayed or never…
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Added by Long Islander on November 6, 2020 at 11:32am —
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The project in Sherman would be New England’s largest wind project, right in the shadow of Katahdin.
The second developer, Clearway Renew LLC, challenged how the PUC scored the projects. It maintained that its entry, called County Wind, had a superior price and climate impact and should have won a contract. Clearway also has filed a broad Freedom of Access Act request in an effort to see confidential pricing information and learn how projects were scored,…
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Added by Long Islander on November 6, 2020 at 11:32am —
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Added by Willem Post on November 3, 2020 at 11:17am —
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Documents and videos exposing a left-wing “coup” being planned by liberal federal workers and activists were leaked online Sunday.
A political organization called the Sunrise Movement, which claims to be an environmental activist group working to “stop climate change,” is behind the coordinated effort.

The information was…
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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 2, 2020 at 7:30pm —
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President Donald Trump on Saturday announced the signing of an executive order to protect both the fracking and oil and gas industries following former Vice President Joe Biden’s pledge to “transition from the oil industry.”
“Just signed an order to protect fracking and the oil and gas…
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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on October 31, 2020 at 7:20pm —
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Heather Richards and Arianna Skibell, E&E News reporters
Published: Friday, October 30, 2020
In the new year, the first offshore wind farm in the United States will shut off its turbines, and its customers on nearby Block Island in Rhode Island will revert to diesel generation.
The rocky saeabed around Block Island has been worn away by tides and storms, sometimes exposing high-voltage cables in a popular swimming location that developers failed to bury deep…
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Added by Long Islander on October 31, 2020 at 2:41pm —
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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Mountain Top Inn, in Warm Springs, Ga., on Oct. 27, 2020. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
Joe Biden: Trashing Fossil Fuel in the US While His Family Seeks to…
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Added by arthur qwenk on October 30, 2020 at 7:30am —
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What is their role in net-zero emission future
Bruce Mohl Oct 29, 2020
THE MASSACHUSETTS Department of Public Utilities on Thursday ordered the state’s natural gas utilities to jointly hire consultants and come up with a way to dramatically phase down or eliminate their businesses over the next 30 years.
The order is a response…
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Added by Long Islander on October 29, 2020 at 11:25pm —
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Added by Art Brigades on October 29, 2020 at 1:55pm —
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Dive Brief:
Rhode Island will open a competitive request for proposals to procure up to 600 MW of new offshore wind, Governor Gina Raimondo, D, said Tuesday.
In January, Raimondo issued Executive Order 20-01 with a target of meeting 100% of Rhode Island's electricity demand with renewable energy by 2030, the earliest such state target in the country. The 600 MW of offshore wind when combined with existing commitments, would allow the state to meet about 82% of its estimated 2030…
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Added by Long Islander on October 29, 2020 at 12:34am —
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October 26, 2020 by Kate Cough
CLIFTON — The Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved contracts for 17 renewable power projects on Sept. 22, including a 20-megawatt (MW) wind farm known as Silver Maple Wind in Clifton and a 100-MW solar project in Hancock known as Three Rivers Solar.
The PUC approved a contract for SWEB Development’s Silver Maple Wind that includes two options: one where the company sells the electricity it generates for $34.30 per megawatt hour…
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Added by Long Islander on October 27, 2020 at 1:46pm —
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World energy consumption is projected to increase to 736 quads in 2040 from 575 quads in 2015, an increase of 28%, according to the US Energy Information Administration, EIA.
See URL and click on PPT to access data, click on to page 4 of PowerPoint
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/ieo/
Most of this growth is expected to come from countries not in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, and…
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Added by Willem Post on October 26, 2020 at 8:00am —
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As more details emerge about Hunter Biden’s emails and Biden Family connections to China, Russia, Ukraine and other countries that would provide most of the metals and minerals America would need under any Green New Deal, we should contemplate how much some families, companies and countries would be enriched by the GND – while others would lose their jobs, see their energy prices skyrocket, and watch their favorite scenic vistas and wildlife habitats get blanketed by wind turbines, solar…
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Added by Willem Post on October 25, 2020 at 11:56am —
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Snippet from last night's debate. The full transcript can be read at the weblink below.
[1:24:38] Trump: Solar. I love solar, but solar doesn't quite have it yet. It's not powerful enough yet to-- to really run our big beautiful factories that we need to compete with the world--
[1:24:47] Biden: False.
[1:24:47] Trump: So, it's all a pipe dream, but you…
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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on October 23, 2020 at 2:15pm —
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Too much time has been spent wringing our hands over the gathering storm that is climate change. Or worse, arguing with those who don't believe that pumping gazillions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere over the last 200 years didn't have an impact.Which is why I am cheered to see the roll-up-our-sleeves-let's-dig-into-this approach the Maine Climate Council is taking. Our lead story provides some frightening predictions on what our state could face, but that fear should spur action, not…
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Added by Kenneth Capron on October 21, 2020 at 10:34pm —
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