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November 22, 2016

“One thing Mr Trump kept returning to was the issue of wind farms. He is a complete Anglophile and also absolutely adores Scotland which he thinks is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. “But he is dismayed that his beloved Scotland has become over-run with ugly wind farms which he believes are a blight on the stunning landscape.”…

Pohlmann writes "The EPA has proposed the Clean Power Plan to curb the biggest source of carbon emissions: power plants". However, she fails to point out that this is absolutely not the case in Maine, where power plants are a virtal non-factor and the main source of carbon "pollution" is transportation. Rather disingenuous I'd say. One has to wonder why these organizations went from protecting the environment to advocating against CO2. Does it have something to do with redistribution of…

“Phyllis may have reported more stories about conservation issues in Maine than anyone,” St. Pierre said. “It was not just the extensive breadth of issues Phyllis wrote about, it was her approach that stood out. Always thorough in her reporting, she was respected by virtually everyone she covered, whether or not they agreed.”

An avid hiker, she trekked the Himalayas in Nepal and in the Scottish Highlands. Her last piece “On Reaching the End of the Trail” was published in the…

Some of What Needs to Be Fixed in Three E’s

Energy:

Change national energy slogan to: “All of the Sensible”

Terminate Wind Energy Production Tax Credit (PTC)

Change grid rules that give wind & solar favorable treatment

Fix the NDAA so that military has better protections from turbines

Fast-track Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) as an energy source

Seriously investigate Deep-Drilled Geothermal…

"The wind PTC is an enormous government handout, and it is wrong to borrow money from future generations to give away corporate favors to those who promise jobs but – as we can see now in Kansas – who cannot deliver on that promise without continued reliance on other taxpayers.

Most important, the wind PTC does not work. Proof of this is that the wind PTC has been in effect for two decades and, still, wind-generated electricity is multiples more expensive than other sources of…

By Lisa Linowes -- November 18, 2016

“After billions in public hand-outs spanning nearly four decades, big wind has never been able to stand on its own and there’s no reason to believe this will change. … If yanking the handouts causes the industry to flat line then so be it. The US has elected a businessman at the helm who understands what it means to cut your losses. It’s time we did exactly that!”

Elections matter!

Last week, untold thousands of…

The United Nations has publicly stated its goal is not to ‘solve’ climate change, but to seek to redistribute wealth and expand its authority through more central planning. UN official Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chair of the IPCC Working Group III, admitted what’s behind the climate issue: “One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy … One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost…

Perhaps Dylan Voorhees  can sponsor warm milk parties  and psychiatric trauma counselling  for himself  and his ilk . Perhaps he should go back to teaching  8th grade where he can do some good.

Maine must thank NRCM,Audubon, Sierra Club et al and other corporate enviro-lefties    for the global  progressive lunacy that has   influenced Augusta politics these past years.That influence has increased costs for business and residents(with little to no…

Wall Street Journal

By Ted Mann, Bradley Olson and Andrew Tangel

Updated Nov. 9, 2016

Harold Hamm, Mr. Trump’s chief adviser on energy issues, said subsidies for renewable energy like solar and wind, and credits for electric cars, should be eliminated. “None of it should be subsidized, none of it,” Mr. Hamm said Wednesday. “If it makes it in the market, fine.”…

"You look at these horrible wind mills that are destroying every environment; they're destroying areas, they're destroying neighborhoods; they're killing all the birds; the windmills are the worst of all. And we're backing all of this garbage that doesn't work and it's really destructive.

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President-elect Trump has said he is not a fan of energy generated from wind and solar power. That’s of high concern for Maine’s environmental groups. Dylan Voorhees, a scientist for the Natural Resources Council of Maine, worries Trump might unravel progress made by the Obama administration on the Environmental Protection Agency’s clean air and power plans, particularly a rule that’s under development to reduce mercury and other emissions that pollute the air.

“We’re still reeling…