Vermonter of the Year: Annette Smith

Free Press Editorial Board 5:30 a.m. EST January 2, 2017

In February, the state Attorney General’s Office dropped a criminal investigation into a complaint brought by a lawyer who represents a major solar and wind developer that Smith had practiced law without a license in the course of advising those preparing to testify before the Public Service Board.

Private citizens with limited means often find themselves outmatched from…

The following is excerpted from a general article about how the media lies and distorts. Most of these would seem to apply to the media's reporting on industrial wind.…

The U.S. Department of Energy says Fishermen’s Energy failed to meet a Dec. 31 deadline to have a power purchase agreement in place.

The department is revoking most of the $47 million in funding it pledged to the project in 2014; about $10.6 million has been spent already on preliminary work.…

The Trump presidency will mark a turning point in our attitude to renewables. One thing we…

Dilbert creator Scott Adams has compared climate change skeptics within the scientific community to “Shy Trump Supporters” who are too afraid to say what they really think for fear of being ridiculed or worse. As we can plainly see, he wrote, “the cost of disagreeing with climate science is unreasonably high if you are a scientist.”

William Happer,…

The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED)…

In the meantime, we've endured wasteful, panicked policies such as massive subsidies for the wind and solar power, and electric cars.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/abolish-the-department-of-energy/article/2610421

 " It's a money making industry ,OK. It's a hoax, a lot of it", President -elect  TRUMP

Years ago, Exxon folks like Raymond hit it on the head as to climate issues. 

By Verrill Dana

Posted Dec. 28, 2016, at 12:05 p.m.

Verrill Dana environmental attorneys Juliet Browne, Scott Anderson and Gordon Smith each authored chapters of the MCLE book entitled, A Practical Guide to Land Use in Maine. The guide covers topics ranging from licensing and permitting to wind energy and shoreland zoning.

Browne, author of the chapter on the Maine Wind Energy Act, provides insights into jurisdiction for review and permitting of wind energy developments in…

The pace of renewables growth will be affected by numerous separate policy decisions. These include the Clean Power Plan, the Investment Tax Credit and Production Tax Credit for renewables and the addition or reduction of restrictions on fossil fuel production and consumption.

see this interesting article for  some scenarios.…

Although state regulators on the Public Utilities Commission created a rule, back in 2007, that envisions the program continuing indefinitely, lawmakers such as House Republican Leader Ken Fredette are asking, so what?

“Well, let’s be very clear. The PUC does not set policy, the Legislature sets policy. So in regards to any rule, I find it almost offensive that the PUC would add a sentence that would suggest that it would go beyond the legislative intent,” he said.

“I think…