Roy says climate bill opens door to Maine onshore wind purchases
Bruce Mohl Jul 28, 2022
THE CLIMATE AND ENERGY bill sitting on the governor’s desk contains two policy sections that could open the door to clean energy procurements involving onshore wind from Maine and nuclear power from Connecticut, according to one of the key drafters of the legislation.
Rep. Jeffrey Roy of Franklin, the House chair of the Legislature’s Telecommunications, Utilities, and…
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Maine Public | By Carol Bousquet
Published July 27, 2022 at 5:42 PM EDT
The Maine AFL-CIO is opposing the consumer-owned utility referendum, saying a publicly-owned utility would threaten the rights of workers and create uncertainty for consumers.
Union President Cynthia Phinney said the majority of workers at CMP and Versant do not support the proposal, which could prompt a buyout of the two investor-owned utilities and reclassify union workers as public…
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You can't make this stuff up. Yet one more use of taxpayer money to stoke fear it would seem. What does this cost us? Think about that every time you pass a disabled vet with no place to live. I noticed there…
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The developers of a $1 billion hydropower corridor running from the Canadian border through western Maine will be able to keep access to a key permit if they prevail in two court challenges.
The permit over public lands was first granted by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to the New England Clean Energy Connect project but…
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Well of course you are going to praise buyers of solar nonsense. "An uneducated consumer is your best customer"
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by David Marino Jr.
A solar executive of a leading national clean energy company praised Maine’s renewable energy efforts and steps toward fighting climate change during a trip to Portland.
Mary Powell, CEO of Sunrun, a San Francisco-based multibillion-dollar clean energy company, said that Gov. Janet Mills’ climate goals are…
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Why am I not surprised that this article doesn't touch upon any of the negatives associated with batteries on the grid. Maybe start with what all these new batteries, including all of those in EV's, will do in terms of damaging the environment. Maybe tell me how much it costs and compare that to all the alternatives. Puff pieces are an important part of brainwashing. Me? I do NOT accept the inevitability of an all electric future and am very sick and tired of how one sided are the…
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How about taking a look at Germany before throwing one more cent of good money after bad? Any candidate for office enabling this march of lemmings to the cliff needs to be questioned. It's not like we haven't been warned of the coming costs. Lessons abound.
Credit: By Mara Hoplamazian | New Hampshire Public Radio | July 6, 2022 |…
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Big batteries and efficiency are chosen as an alternative to a new Brunswick-Topsham power line, thanks to a new law that pushes utilities to explore new ways to assure reliability.
BY TUX TURKEL STAFF WRITER
On a scorching summer evening a few years from now, big batteries at locations that might include Bowdoin College or the Topsham Fair Mall could discharge for five hours or so into the area’s electric distribution system. Commercial…
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Published Thu, Jun 30 2022
The decision is a major setback for the Biden administration’s agenda to combat climate change, specifically the goal to zero out carbon emissions from power plants by 2035 and cut in half the country’s emissions by 2100.
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Former Gov. Paul LePage says if reelected in November, he would not proceed with Gov. Janet Mills' application to the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to site a wind-energy farm about 30 miles off Maine's coast.
"My minimum is 40 miles out. If you're out 40 miles or 50 miles I'll be all supportive. In the fishing waters I will not support windmills," he says.
LePage spoke at an event in Windham, where his candidacy was endorsed by…
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Read these and other important articles at the link below:
Renewable Energy — or Reliable Energy — But Not Both
Clean Green Energy - Net Zero - Fairy Tales on Steroids
In the dark on the power struggle: inconvenient truth proves renewables can’t cut it
Backup battery cost fantasies abound
Upstate New York will foot the bill for downstate's clean energy costs
The dam against nuclear energy is cracking
Fossil Future: Why Global Human…
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U.S. Sen. Angus King’s bill calls for transitioning the non-tactical fleet of the U.S. Department of Defense to electric and other zero-emission vehicle types. King said his proposal would require three quarters of non-tactical vehicles purchased by the department to be electric or zero-emission and made in the…
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The proposed contract's likely impact on Maine electricity customers is being shielded from public view, for now.
By Tux Turkel Staff Writer
EXCERPTS:
The developers of a planned offshore wind energy research array have asked state regulators to approve a 20-year electricity supply contract with terms they say are essential to their investing $1.2 billion in a project that could help launch a new renewable energy industry in Maine.
But…
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Click on the link below for these and many other important articles.
*** Report: Deadly Summer Blackouts Inevitable As Renewables Struggle To Replace
Reliable Energy
*** The green agenda’s role in global inflation
*** Biden's Most Preposterous Lie Is Too Much Even For The Washington Post
*** The great renewables ripoff
Ohio County Veto of Wind Project Shows It’s Time to End Federal Wind Subsidies
NY Governor…
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No mention in this article of the natural gas pipelines being blocked. Maine sits remarkably close to massive natural gas deposits, e.g., in PA and NY, but needlessly suffers because new pipelines have been blocked by Massachusetts and New York. Ideology and stupidity are going to get people killed.
EXCERPTS:
More than 2,000 Maine households have been disconnected over the past month, and tens of thousands more are struggling with past-due…
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5/17/22
In recommendations to the Board of Environmental Protection, DEP staff rejected most of the arguments from power line critics. A meeting to discuss the appeals has been delayed due to COVID-19 concerns.
By Tux Turkel Staff Writer
Staffers at Maine’s top environmental agency disagree with opponents of a Central Maine Power-backed transmission line project who have argued that the project’s construction permit should…
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Where were these people when interior Maine was being ravaged (and still is) by wind projects?
Joan Saxe and Becky Bartovics are Sierra Club Maine volunteers.
We salute Gov. Janet Mills’ Climate Action Plan to support offshore wind development, promoting a fossil fuel free, renewable energy economy. Gulf of Maine wind resources have a…
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How about the wind projects that are ruining interior Maine?
Maine Public | By Fred Bever
Published May 3, 2022 at 4:57 PM EDT
A wide coalition of New England conservation groups is calling on federal regulators for a rigorous review of the potential effects of offshore wind-farms on Gulf of Maine ecosystems and fisheries. And they want that effort made before specific wind sites are proposed - which the feds did not do when planning wind-lease areas in southern…
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Maine Public | By Robbie Feinberg
Published April 29, 2022 at 4:47 PM EDT
The University of Maine System is planning to fully divest from fossil fuels by 2030 — starting with the elimination of all direct fossil fuel holdings by the end of May.
On Thursday, the investment committee for the system's board of trustees…
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"Ifeji, a Bangor High School senior, said she did not have climate education". SOUND THE ALARM.
How about we nail down reading, writing and arithmetic first. Then maybe with the arithmetic the next generations will be able to keep an eye on all the taxpayer money being thrown away on outright nonsense.
Maine Public | By Carol Bousquet
Published April 27, 2022 at 4:39 PM EDT
Lawmakers have approved more than…
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CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(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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"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."
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