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Has annual wind turbine mortality to birds and bats reached 45 million? Yes, according to one study.

It is my understanding that legal actions against the wind industry from several different parties may take place in the near future. To help with these actions I am going to give my expert opinion in a series of posts pertaining to the wind industry’s non-scientific and fraudulent mortality data. These posts may include my personal notes.          

The highest annual estimated bird mortality from wind turbines in the US is claimed to be no more than 573,000. After reading through…

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Added by Jim Wiegand on January 18, 2017 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Jury returns with a whopping $13.6 million verdict against First Wind 11/18/16

In case you missed this case against First Wind...that failed to negotiate in good faith and breached their contractual obligation. 

EMEC Wins Verdict

EASTERN MAINE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE WINS $13.6 MILLION JURY…

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Added by Barbara Durkin on January 18, 2017 at 6:01pm — 7 Comments

For third straight time, Earth sets hottest year record

The Boston Globe is beating the climate change drum again with new readings saying the Earth has set a new record for warming and this is the third year in a row.  I have a few questions about this though, like what happened to the temperatures of the 1930's which were significantly higher than the ones today, and what about the flat lining of the temperatures of the last 18 years?  And what happened to the Medieval warming Period? And what about 1997?  All these were a lot higher than this…

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Added by Eskutassis on January 18, 2017 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

AWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: January 16, 2017 - John Droz

By John Droz, Jr. -- January 16, 2017

The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).

A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a…

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Added by Long Islander on January 18, 2017 at 9:31am — 1 Comment

Trump’s tax reform plans could threaten wind-power financing

(Bloomberg) — Wind-power skeptic Donald Trump’s proposed tax reform may have an unintended consequence: threatening wind farms’ balance sheets......The president-elect’s proposal to cut the corporate tax rate to as low as 15% may curb availability of an esoteric, but critical, clean-energy financing mechanism known as tax equity......That could significantly curb businesses’ need for tax credits. It would also drag down wind developers’ after-tax internal rates of…

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Added by Long Islander on January 18, 2017 at 8:41am — 9 Comments

Very important corrections for new eagle killing rules - Annual bald eagle bag limits are now 7,518

Even though this rule was primarily designed for the unencumbered expansion of wind energy into the wetland habitats inhabited by bald eagles, this new rule  does include all industrial eagle take.  

Population estimates used for eagle take were created with embellished population figures. Proof of this was submitted in my 7.1.2016 comments to the Interior department.  However my eagle take figures of 6200 are not correct. The final revisions had several changes from…

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Added by Jim Wiegand on January 17, 2017 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

Portland's Biodiversity Research Institute: "Bald Eagles are a Problem"

What about the federal government's recently issued "KILLING PERMIT" of 6,200 eagles a year to protect the Wall Street crowd and other insiders who make billions off the U.S. taxpayer from wind?

The article states the US population is 30,000 pairs but fails to note what it used to be. Some estimates put it at 250,000 pairs in the 1700's.

"In Maine, where the breeding population of great cormorants is small and efforts to save them are underway,…

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Added by Long Islander on January 17, 2017 at 3:06pm — 5 Comments

Cape Cod - Industrial Wind Turbine Placement Issues -Massachusetts Health & Property Rights

Cape Cod and Industrial Wind Turbine Placement Issues

Wind Turbine placement on Cape Cod in Massachusetts continues to be an unsettling clash for citizens' health and property values

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Added by Frank Haggerty on January 17, 2017 at 8:06am — No Comments

Maine's Biodiversity Research Institute on list of Wind Industry's Vendors

Why should we care?  Well, for one, Maine's Biodiversity Research Institute just labeled eagles a problem in today's Portland Press Herald:

"In Maine, where the breeding population of great cormorants is small and efforts to save them are underway, the bald eagles are a problem, said Chris DeSorbo, director of the raptor program at the Biodiversity Research Institute in Portland". …

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Added by Long Islander on January 16, 2017 at 6:15pm — 3 Comments

Opposition to wind power is becoming universal



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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on January 15, 2017 at 2:50pm — No Comments

Scenes - Our Windmills, Birds, Climate Change - The needless Green destruction

"The Remains of "

"The needless…

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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on January 15, 2017 at 1:30pm — 3 Comments

Doing right by Maine’s Energy Commons

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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on January 14, 2017 at 2:53pm — 6 Comments

A deflating benefit

Warren Buffet stated -…

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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on January 13, 2017 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

TWO CANADIAN TRANSMISSION LINES MAKE PROGRESS

The New England Clean Power link, earns a Presidential Permit from US DOE, paving the way for Canadian power to be transmitted through Vermont to New England:

http://www.constructionequipmentguide.com/new-england-clean-power-link-earns-presidential-permit/32154

And Emera moves forward on its proposed $2 billion, 350 mile, sub- Atlantic transmission line from New…

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Added by Pineo Girl on January 13, 2017 at 11:00am — 4 Comments

Obama - Energy Quote of the Day

"Has the wind stopped blowing for…

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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on January 12, 2017 at 12:17pm — 1 Comment

Will Dishonesty Kill Cleantech?

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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on January 12, 2017 at 11:38am — No Comments

This is what happens when you know too much......................

               Eagles vs. wind energy? Trust the facts                                   http://www.denverpost.com/2017/01/11/eagles-vs-wind-energy-trust-the-facts/

To understand this one needs to realize that in Denver that there…

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Added by Jim Wiegand on January 12, 2017 at 12:00am — 15 Comments

Vermont Takes its Wind Complaint Directly to the People of Connecticut; Maine Must do the Same

This much needed letter appears in the Hartford Business Journal. It's the people of Vermont (actually a former Lt. Governor) going directly to the people of Connecticut telling them of the problems their wind power "needs" cause for both Vermont and Connecticut.

More letters like this are sorely needed from all of northern New England to all the media in CT, MA and RI whose corrupt legislative leaders are a large reason these fraudulent projects are still getting built. The average…

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Added by Long Islander on January 11, 2017 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

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Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

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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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"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."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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