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Ever wondered what to say when the proponents of wind power in Maine evoke the need to reduce CO2 emissions ?

Read the following graph  and then try to figure out  why  John Baldacci wanted to make Maine a LEADER in wind power development in 2008. 

Rankings: Total Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2012

(million metric tons)

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on June 6, 2015 at 10:00am — 4 Comments

If you ever wondered whether your activism for sensible energy policies had any effect, just read the following .

The following action was taken at the 2015 May conference of the AWEA in order to fight what they see as the wind power opponents :

Become a Power of Wind Industry Member

We’re already seeing it — wind energy has the power to create cleaner air, more jobs, and affordable energy for more Americans. But anti-wind groups want to drown out…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on June 6, 2015 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

Angus king , your prediction of Maine becoming an uninhabitable land has not happened yet !

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on June 5, 2015 at 10:00am — 16 Comments

Economist Dr. Bruce Williamson's PUC Nomination Clears EUT Committee

In a surprising turn of events among the Democrats who control The Legislature's Energy Committee (EUT), they reversed their blockage of a vote on the PUC nomination of economist Dr. Bruce Williamson and voted to endorse the nomination by 11-2 margin.  Surprising, because the wind industry usually has its way with the Democrats on this committee and they fear the scrutiny of their scam by an economist.  This is a great opportunity to do some on-line comments criticizing the economics of wind…

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Added by Brad Blake on June 4, 2015 at 10:39pm — No Comments

Time for PUC Facts Concerning Gridscale Wind in Maine

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored" Aldous Huxley

The time is overdue for them on this issue in Maine.

Added by arthur qwenk on June 4, 2015 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Bruce Williamson 's nomination for PUC commissioner approved in Energy Committee

AUGUSTA, Maine — After delaying a vote for a week, the Legislature’s Energy Committee has approved Tennessee economist and nuclear security expert Bruce Williamson for the state’s Public Utilities Commission.

The committee gave Williamson, who was not present, the greenlight in an 11-2 vote on Thursday afternoon. Sen. Dawn Hill, D-York, and Rep. Dean Rykerson, D-Kittery, were the lone opponents to Williamson’s nomination.

The committee courted controversy for a week after…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on June 4, 2015 at 4:34pm — 6 Comments

Vote coming on PUC Nomination

This may be unfortunate for Bruce Williamson, an excellent candidate!

http://bangordailynews.com/2015/06/03/politics/vote-imminent-on-puc-nominee-amid-crisis-of-confidence/

Added by Pineo Girl on June 3, 2015 at 9:29pm — 2 Comments

when Littell worries ... we do not !!

The outgoing member of the Public Utilities Commission is concerned that the independent panel is being used as a “political arm” of Republican Gov. Paul LePage to thwart wind power contracts, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press through a Freedom of Access Act Request....

please read rest of the article at the link below.…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on June 3, 2015 at 5:00pm — 2 Comments

Maine's PUC NEEDS California's E3 or, Dr. Williamson, Please Step Forward!

"The Sierra Club is upset because the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) built a sophisticated and unbiased computer model to analyze the cost-effectiveness of new solar policy proposals. But despite all the Sierra Club’s political clout, the computer model determined is that none of the solar policy proposals are cost effective.

After years of paying about a $200 premium to buy any and all excess electrical power streaming from home and commercial building rooftop solar…

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Added by arthur qwenk on June 1, 2015 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

Maine PUC...Look at California PUC's Recent Renewable Unbiased Research . Why Williamson is FEARED!

Excerpts below..see full article from below link please.

"To facilitate a fair and transparent analysis of competitive energy strategies, the PUC commissioned San Francisco/Vancouver-based consultants Energy + Environmental Economics (E3) to build an integrated “computer tool” to provide a rigorous technical analysis…

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Added by arthur qwenk on June 1, 2015 at 9:28am — No Comments

Democrats are Going after the PUC in a Desperate Move to Save the Wind Industry from Scrutiny

Legislative Energy Committee Chair Rep. Mark Dion and Sen. Dawn Hill, both Democrats, are attacking the integrity and independence of LePage PUC appointees Mark Vannoy and Carlisle McLean.  They have created a false charge of "crisis of confidence" and it is all centered around the realization that things just might not go their way of protecting the wind industry from scrutiny. 

The Governor has stricken fear into the Democrats by nominating an economist with no ties to Maine, Bruce…

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Added by Brad Blake on May 31, 2015 at 11:58pm — 2 Comments

The PUC MUST Represent the Public Interest, Not the Shills of Wind in Maine

Mainers could start to benefit from real competition in the electricity market .

The subsidized high cost lies from the wind lobby and the lying sleazeballs of "Enronesque" First Wind would soon be under  close PUC analysis.

If  soon to be data wonk in the Maine PUC, Dr. Bruce Williamson, runs the numbers on wind energy as a PUC commissioner, look out Big Wind in Maine!

First Wind and the wind lobby never can stand close scrutiny based on facts and cost benefit…

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Added by arthur qwenk on May 31, 2015 at 12:30pm — 3 Comments

Why Williamson is seen as a political threat by the Dems in Maine; Why confirmation may be very difficult.

Paid off  wind shills, political self - servers  and paid off enviro-groups like NRCM  made the law, PL-661 (The Expedited Wind Law of 2008).

The damage has festered and grown for years now.

Damage has been inflicted  to  legal process , to Maine's environment and to the citizenry , for next to naught in benefit.

This "lie", called a legislative emergency bill, PL-661, was the take over by wind corporate interests and unctuous self-serving political…

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Added by arthur qwenk on May 31, 2015 at 12:29pm — 1 Comment

A Governor who is watching out for ratepayers.

http://bangordailynews.com/2015/05/29/politics/lepage-rips-repugnant-democrats-for-delaying-vote-on-puc-nominee/

This  is the mission statement  of the PUC:

The PUC’s “mission statement” is, essentially, the statute that created the PUC and which defines its duties and responsibilities – Title 35-A of the Maine statutes.  If there is any one…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on May 30, 2015 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

Partisan Move by Desperate Democrats Block PUC Nominee in Committee

As we all know, the Democratic chair of the Maine Legislature's Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee, Rep. Mark Dion of Portland has been carrying out the directives of Maine Democratic leaders to protect the wind industry.  With wind cheerleader David Littell being replaced by a LePage nominee, a highly regarded economist named Bruce Williamson, the Democrats fear economic scrutiny of the wind industry will stop the scam rather than promote it as in the past when the PUC was Baldacci…

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Added by Brad Blake on May 28, 2015 at 11:03pm — 2 Comments

PUC Nomination tabled

Governor LePage's nomination of Bruce Williamson as PUC Commissioner was table by a party line 7-6 vote today.

Added by Pineo Girl on May 28, 2015 at 5:26pm — No Comments

PUC Nominee Confirmation Hearing Today in EUT Committee

The confirmation hearing of Bruce Williamson. the economist from Tennessee recommended by Governor LePage to fill the PUC seat vacated by David Littell, is today at 1:00 pm in the EUT Committee.  Tune in!!

Added by Pineo Girl on May 28, 2015 at 10:16am — No Comments

Cheeseburgers and the wind industry

Cheeseburgers and the Wind industry is now playing........... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDOr2kjc-bM  

This video, while quite entertaining, clearly illustrates a very dark side to wind energy, the hidden wind turbine slaughter taking place at wind energy facilities.

 

Each year the slaughter to millions and millions of birds and bats is being concealed by the wind industry and America's…

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Added by Jim Wiegand on May 27, 2015 at 5:22pm — No Comments

The Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition has urged the US Congress to extend tax credits

In a letter to House and Senate leadership, the chairman and vice chairman pressed Congress to approve a multi-year extension of the renewable energy production tax credit (PTC) and investment tax credit (ITC) as soon as possible. The most recently passed extension expired last year.…

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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on May 27, 2015 at 1:17pm — No Comments

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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

******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********

(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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