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November 6, 2022

What you need to know about new wind and transmission line proposals for Northern Maine

by Annie Ropeik

Editor’s Note: The following story first appeared in The Maine Monitor’s free environmental newsletter, Climate Monitor, that is delivered to inboxes for every Friday morning. Sign up for the free newsletter to get important environmental news by …

The oldest renewable source of energy deserves a better fate…

Note that Maine PUC chair Phil Bartlett was on Governor Baldacci's wind task force, which was created to begin the onslaught of Maine's countryside with feckless wind power and put money in the pockets of insiders. https://www.windtaskforce.org/page/the-expedited-wind-law

Longroad Energy is the gang from First Wind -…

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10/21/22

Lawyers for the CMP-backed project to bring hydropower from Quebec through western Maine had asked a court to reconsider an injunction halting the work while the case progresses.…

10/22/22

by Mehr Sher

Maine is exploring hydrogen as a source of energy in a national effort to create an infrastructure for clean power across the country.

Maine has signed on with six other northeast states to produce clean hydrogen and is seeking funding through the Department of Energy, which has earmarked $8 billion to help meet the country’s energy demand and work toward…

By Robert Bryce

October 14, 2022

The hype about wind and solar energy keeps colliding with the hard reality of land-use conflicts. Nowhere is that more obvious than in Ohio, where 41 townships have rejected or restricted the expansion of wind and/or solar projects since last November. In addition, at least eight Ohio counties have implemented restrictions on Big Wind and Big Solar over that same time period.

The soaring number of rejections – all of which are documented in…

Published Thu, Oct 6 2022 | Seema Mody | cnbc.com ~~

General Electric is laying off 20% of its U.S. onshore wind workforce, which equates to hundreds of jobs, according to a person familiar with the matter who declined to be named.

A note was sent out to employees Wednesday.

“We are taking steps to streamline and size our onshore wind business for market realities to position us for future success. These are difficult decisions, which do not reflect on our employees’…

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Large-Scale Renewable Energy Projects

Experts question environmental and economic value of wind power…

Zane Wolfang

September 19, 2022

"I think if you look at the interest in wind, wind power, I think people are still skeptical that that has a bright future," says NMCC President Tim Crowley. The state's changing political landscape, he says, also may have affected interest in the program.

Some industry observers say interest has shifted toward solar. And Jeremy Payne, executive director of the Maine Renewable Energy Association, says…

NEW: Link at Bangor Daily News:

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/09/22/news/aroostook/mars-hill-wind-power-legacy/

"A Texas company, for instance, hopes to build what would be Maine's largest wind farm just 10 miles away from Mars Hill in the commercial timberlands around Number Nine Mountain."

If this supposed Texas company is…

I guess the "Inflation Reduction Act" is not the only way that our federal income taxes are being transferred into the hands of the administration's "green" friends.

South Portland launches rebate program for electric vehicles, lawn equipment

Open to low- and moderate-income residents, it's one of several local funding efforts to reduce carbon emissions in Maine.

By Kelley BouchardStaff…

Tucker Carlson: The Green New Deal means poverty

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Thank you to all the "environmentalists" who have blocked new natural gas pipelines to Maine from some of the country's largest natural gas deposits which are relatively nearby. And thank you to all the green criminals in government who have done the same and slowed down or stopped drilling. The legions of poor folk who typically support this ilk of politician may soon see a big thank you in the form of no electricity.

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At least 20 million…

Protective ordinances is key. Any town that wishes to avoid becoming a dead zone needs to enact a protective ordinance....and fast.

Updated: August 22, 2022

Jeremy Payne, the director of the Maine Renewable Energy Association,…

A measure tucked into the state’s climate bill would allow Mass. to plug into wind energy being proposed in the northernmost reaches of Maine.

By Jon Chesto Globe Staff,Updated August 9, 2022, 5:53 p.m.

The hottest clean-energy contest currently underway in New England doesn’t involve offshore wind farms, at least not this time. Instead of the waters south of Martha’s Vineyard, this race to tap into…