Radio Address: Maine Has an Exciting Opportunity To Reduce Energy Costs

May 17, 2018

I have been talking about the need to reduce energy prices for nearly eight years. Maine is a manufacturing state, and high energy prices have a direct and negative affect on the cost of doing business and the ability to create good-paying jobs.

Hello, this is Governor Paul LePage.

Central Maine Power Company won the proposal to create a transmission line to deliver electricity…

Attorneys, students and other supporters of 8% annual cuts in emissions say urgent action is needed, but industries call the proposed standards unrealistic and warn of a severe impact and business shutdowns.

Tapping a little-used section of state law, a grassroots group of attorneys and activists submitted nearly 700 petition signatures from registered voters calling for tougher standards on emissions of carbon dioxide and other climate-warming gases. As a…

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:

“Wind turbines dramatically decrease attractiveness of a tourist destination”

If Solar And Wind Are So Cheap, Why Are They Making Electricity So Expensive?

Conservative Groups Take a Stand Against Carbon Tax

Introducing bill to ban non-disclosure clauses in wind contracts

Noise is the New Secondhand Smoke

Wind Turbine Construction Turning Ontario’s Water Supply to Toxic Sludge

NOAA/NWS…

Please see Frank Haggerty's comment below.

First Wind Spinoff: NEW FILM DIVES INTO ISSUES, CONCERNS WITH DEEPWATER WIND’S PROPOSED WIND FARM

“After hearing the same old automated rebuttal, lacking fact and transparency, from Deepwater Wind’s representatives about real concerns from the East Hampton community, I felt it necessary to give those who oppose Deepwater’s method of operation a loud and clear opportunity to…

Mattson moved Roxwind, LLC up from unfinished business. Roxwind update- state DEP has accepted their permit and considered it complete on 4/10/18. A copy of the letter received was submitted for the file. 

Vestas will be offering UMPI cost estimates for several different options, including decommissioning the turbine and replacing it with another turbine, Rice said.

“If we were to decommission the turbine, we’d want to replace it with a renewable energy system that would provide similar energy and cost savings,” Rice said.

Those other renewable energy options could include solar panels, although officials with UMPI and the University of Maine…

Basically this article is supportive of nuclear energy, but it has some other good points and facts. And gives the real data for contradicting the Denmark and Germany wind energy fable of happily ever after.

We now know that, in the real world, electricity grid managers cope with the unreliability of solar by firing up petroleum and natural gas generators.

As such — while there might be good reasons to continue to subsidize the production of solar…

Will newspapers go mercenary and sell their reporting and opinion to the highest bidder? Is this already happening? Has the wind industry already figured this out?…

Energy sprawl threatens Kittitas County tourism

Washington's Governor, Jay Inslee, Commented "As a state, we could learn from Maine’s moratorium on permits for new wind turbines. Gauging effects on rural tourism is an important issue for our state. “We cannot afford to damage our natural assets in ways that would deter visitors from returning,” according to Gov. Paul LePage."…

First, there is a tendency among those who believe they are on the “right side” of an issue at the macro (governmental, social) level to be negligent in the same area at the micro or personal level, an instance of a phenomenon known in psychology as “moral licensing” or “self-licensing.”

By supporting government action in a given area, people may feel morally legitimatized to cut corners at the…

Department of Environmental Protection

Information About Petitions to Require Agency Rulemaking

An individual does not have to wait until an agency proposes a rule to institute a change. Title 5, Section 8055 establishes procedures for anyone to petition a department for the adoption, repeal or modification of any rule.

The petitioner should first contact the department to make sure that such rulemaking change does not conflict with another state or federal law or…

See at Maine PUC website: " reports submitted by MPUC "

Chapter 382: Wind Energy Act Standards

Fact Sheet (PDF) :: Draft Rule (PDF) :: Adoption packet…

This sounds ominous............from the Department of Environmental Protection website :

Rulemaking to Require the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to Fulfill its Statutory, Constitutional, and Public Trust Obligations to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Along a Trajectory that is Based on the Best Climate Science and that will Reduce the Impacts of Climate Change in Maine (GHG Petition)) to initiate rulemaking pursuant to 5 M.R.S. § 8055. The GHG Petition was…

Installed capacity means almost nothing.  "...…

Recently released by Marc Morano, this is a very easy to read and understand expose' of the weapons that have been leveled at REAL science by the enviros and their leftist, NWO backers. Since all this nonsense started 40 years ago, we have lost our standing in the world and have been caught up in an extraordinary spending of unneeded resources when we have all we need right here at home.

It…

This whole thing is an idealistic, religious, leftist scam. Our entire economy has been built on unfettered, cheap reliable coal, oil and gas. In an effort by leftist (communist) groups allied with a United Nations that has used smoke and mirrors to convince everyone that the sky is falling, we have been duped into the idea that using ANY carbon based fuel is evil. CO2 is not poison. CO2 levels are at very low levels but are increasing . . . . but the temperature is NOT rising. Those, folks,…