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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…

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…

The proposed contract's likely impact on Maine electricity customers is being shielded from public view, for now.

By Tux Turkel Staff Writer

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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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*** 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…

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.

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More than 2,000 Maine households have been disconnected over the past month, and tens of thousands more are struggling with past-due…

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…

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…

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…

Maine Public | By Robbie Feinberg

Published April 29, 2022 at 4:47 PM EDT

"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…

Harwood, the public advocate, believes Maine’s standard offer bid process needs to be adjusted. One approach could be to seek bids for both long- and short-term contracts, to smooth out rate impacts as a hedge against volatility. But the real answer, he said, is for New England states to speed up the transition to renewable generation and away from their dependence on natural gas.…

I don't agree with everything that scientist Vaclav Smil says here, but it's refreshing to hear from someone who has the confidence to call BS on the delusional. Speaking one's mind .....there is hope.

This Eminent Scientist Says Climate Activists Need to Get Real

By David Marches

The “really” in the title of Vaclav Smil’s newest book, “How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got…

Is 'green' really clean?

Dated: April 15, 2022 by Sharyl Attkisson

This week, Easter Sunday on Full Measure, we'll replay my investigation on the topic. In case you missed it the first time, catch it this week and tell your friends!

We'll also report on a push in…

Update: The BDN is now carrying this article. I'm not sure when it went up. Looks like some of the usual "Cats Kill Birds" wind industry shills are infesting the comments. But also there seems to be considerable common sense brewing. People are likely figuring out that so much of what we have been told (and not just about wind) is not true and it's usually the exact opposite that's what's true.…

Two bills under consideration seek to balance the desire for solar incentives with the burden of high electricity bills.

By Tux Turkel

Staff Writer

Two bills now before the Legislature are aimed at reducing future sticker shock for electricity customers, without completely eroding the incentives that have attracted hundreds of millions of dollars in solar investment from across the world in…

Should we even be subjecting our engines and small engines to ethanol in the first place?

By Mark Moore

April 12, 2022

Suspending a federal rule barring the sale of higher-ethanol blends of gasoline during the summer months in the latest bid to reduce prices at the pump as inflation reaches new highs.

While visiting an ethanol…

The large scale solar arrays popping up in Maine like mushrooms become more hideous looking the more knowledge one has over their fecklessness and multiple costs. The town boards falling prey to the solar snake oil industry owe it to the people to become educated in these matters. As it stands now, almost none of these elected decision makers have any business deciding energy issues, issues they are simply not equipped to challenge. Doing "something" simply for the perceived need of…

Climate

Misinformation is derailing renewable energy projects across the United States

March 28, 20225:00 AM ET

Julia Simon

On a winter night in early 2016, Jeremy Kitson gathered in his buddy's large shed with some neighbors to plan their fight against a proposed wind farm in rural Van Wert County, Ohio. The project would be about a mile from his home.

From the beginning, Kitson — who teaches physics and…

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*** Wind project ordered to stop emitting night-time noise, pay neighbors damages

*** Energy reliability is everything

*** No Amount Of Wind And Solar Power Can Ever Provide Energy Independence

Renewable Failure

Iowa’s claimed wind energy percentage is wildly exaggerated

More Confirmation of the Infeasibility of a Fully Wind/Solar/Storage Electricity…