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Glacier National Park quietly removed a visitor center sign saying its iconic glaciers will disappear by 2020 due to climate change.

• Several winters of heavy snowfall threw off climate model projections the glaciers would all disappear by 2020, according to federal officials.
• A blogger first noticed the signage change and noted other signs warning of “impending glacier disappearance have been replaced.”

The…

HARTFORD – With the Senate’s approval Tuesday, wind turbines will be placed off the Connecticut shoreline, which supporters say will help the state meet its clean energy goals while providing job and economic development opportunities.

The bipartisan proposal cleared the Senate unanimously and the House last month on a 134-10 vote, and now moves to Gov. Ned Lamont’s desk.

If the governor signs the bill into law, 14 days later the commissioner of the Department of Energy and…

The Institute for Energy Research and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy released a new study evaluating the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) from new and existing generation resources.



This innovative study takes into account several important considerations that other…

This article (and perhaps the Governor's package???) does not specify the dollars that would be allocated to "clean" energy. Nor does it provide any details.

Mills calls for Maine to borrow $239 million - use of funds includes clean energy

AUGUSTA — Gov. Janet Mills rolled out a $239 million bond package Tuesday that would, among other things, invest in broadband internet and renewable energy, replace aging roads and bridges and rebuild the Land for…

NEW BEDFORD – The next time Massachusetts goes out to bid for renewable energy, offshore wind could have some serious competition.

The state Department of Energy Resources recommended Friday that Massachusetts buy another 1,600 megawatts of renewable power but open the bidding to all sources of clean, renewable energy, not just offshore wind.

Patrick Woodcock, undersecretary of energy, said the offshore wind market has matured enough to compete with other industries. At the…

This Crony Capital  Green $$ Grab  aimed at  basic Mainer's constitutional rights of local control  will continue until Mainers kill PL-661.

With Socialist powers in control in Augusta, and Mills  the governor, there is little hope w/o a major citizen initiative.

Brainwashing Green  ideology is ruining Maine.

Only strong local ordinance protection and protective  changes to combat the wind shysters holds  out hope to defeat future projects…

Long-term contracts raise risks

Bruce Mohl May 31, 2019

THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION is pushing ahead with plans to double the procurement of offshore wind power over the next several years, a move that will increase wind’s share of the state’s energy portfolio to 30 percent while locking Massachusetts into long-term contracts for nearly two thirds of its…

THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION is pushing ahead with plans to double the procurement of offshore wind power over the next several years

On Tuesday, Rhode Island regulators approved a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with DWW REV I, LLC — a joint venture between Ørsted US Offshore Wind and Eversource — for the power generated from the 400 megawatt (MW) Revolution Wind offshore wind project.

The Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved the long-term PPA contract between Danish offshore wind giant Ørsted and US-based energy company…

The existing Dartmouth campus central cogeneration plant required about 3.5 million gallon of No. 6 fuel oil in 2018. The plant had a minimum heating load of 4 MW (13.65 million Btu/h) in summer and a maximum of 32 MW (109.2 million Btu/h) in winter. See page 11 of URL

The Dartmouth campus required about 50000 MWh of electricity in 2018, of which about 80% was purchased and the existing co-gen plant generated about 20%.

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https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/humboldt-wind-farm 

These are to be the tallest ever installed in the U.S., dwarfing the adjacent redwoods by double.

Separate from the petition, CEQA comments are due by June 5, 2019 (Email is fine!) 

*> Details at …

Thanks to CTFWP member Monhegan Resident for the head's up on this piece.

Maine Aqua Ventus should remain on hold until key PUC questions have been answered.

Staff Writer Kevin Miller’s May 16 news article about the Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee’s public hearing on…

Young Maine birders say they like the connection to nature – and the sheer joy of watching birds.

WESTBROOK — Actor Ian Carlsen starts his work week at 7 a.m. at a coffee shop on Portland’s Munjoy Hill, the neighborhood where he lives. Two weeks ago, with a hot coffee and scone to go, the 33-year-old then drove to a wild, wooded enclave outside Portland for a few hours of his favorite outdoor fix.

Carlsen, who acts in television commercials and for two Portland theater…

Important facts about the nonscientific Marbled Murrelet radar surveys conducted by Stantec in Humboldt County............

This bogus study was conducted in Humboldt County to assess the risk to Marbled Murrelets from 60- 600 ft tall turbines, spinning with blade tip speeds up to 300 mph.

As I stated in another earlier post, there are a number of problems with the Stantec radar surveys conducted for this project. Nobody should accept them as being accurate or even…

With 300 mph tip speeds, there is nothing green, progressive or anything even remotely ethical about this coming destruction. It gets even worse, Shasta County wants to put in 100 of these monsters.

Click below to watch the four minute video.

Some excerpts:

- Your electric bill has become a major instrument of public policy..........

- The money collected has been rising steadily

- Already, these agendas add up to about $300 a year for the average electricity bill

- The chart at about the one minute mark in the…

Looks like MA isn't shopping out-of-state for renewables these days - good news for ME.

https://macleanenergy.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/83c-ii-rfp_finalpackage.pdf

Former state Sens. Phil Bartlett and Mark Dion mentioned as possible candidates alongside Faith Huntington, director of the commission’s electric and natural gas division, Rachel Goldwasser, executive director of the New England Conference of Public Utilities Commissioners and Robert Stoddard, the CEO of a marine energy company.

There could be other candidates and…

Offshore Wind Cable Failure Merits an Offshore Wind Moratorium.   

“America’s First” Offshore DeepWater Wind Project is Plagued by Cable Failures.

‘Wind…