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The Pied Piper was a leader as well. So is the first lemming over the cliff. For years we keep seeing stories like this but never an investigative piece on this complete fraud of an industry and the various players benefiting financially - including a large number who instead are supposed to be looking out for you and me.

Where's the story about wind pusher ex-Gov Baldacci who created the laws that created this mess and is now Vice Chair of the second…

...Maine’s greatest resource is our unparalleled scenery — our mountains, lakes, rivers and ocean coastline. Continuing to despoil this birthright to support a misguided energy policy and put big money in the pockets of developers and investors is a travesty that must be stopped.

http://www.ellsworthamerican.com/opinions/wind-big-money

Reporter Jon Chesto of the Boston Globe offers laughable Talking Points in his July 6, 2016 published:   

'CAPE WIND SEES A PATH FORWARD AFTER RULING'

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A US Appeals Court panel in Washington ruled on Tuesday that Cape Wind Associates still has more work to do before it can move forward with its proposed 130 wind turbine project for Nantucket Sound. The developer hailed the court’s decision on a lawsuit filed by opponents as a positive one,…

“Construction activities began in 2015 and are expected to be completed shortly after this acquisition,” the company said in a news release Monday.

http://bangordailynews.com/2016/07/05/news/state/passadumkeag-wind-sells-for-127-million-to-southern-power/

Over 300 comments came in yesterday about the wind industry proposal to allow the wind industry to harvest  6200 eagles annually.  Most of them are giving these crooked bastards hell.

https://www.regulations.gov/docketBrowser?rpp=25&so=DESC&sb=commentDueDate&po=0&dct=PS&D=FWS-R9-MB-2011-0094

The…

With the Eagle slaughtering proposal comment period ending tomorrow, I thought I would point out a little big brother at work.                                                                                                                                                          If you click on the main site it says................ Comments

309 Comments Received                                                                             …

Should a wind project owner enter into a good faith sales contract for it's output by power purchase agreement with another entity and also be able to set a negative price into the wholesale real-time market ?  Isn't the power purchaser compelled to pay the wind project owner by terms of the PPA and also pay the market in this circumstance ?

Thanks to Jim Wiegand I was reminded to comment.

https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=FWS-R9-MB-2011-0094-1370&p=1

Your Comment Tracking Number: 1k0-8qki-qouh…

SunEdision asking for yet another break?

Court Name: U.S. Bankruptcy Court Records for the Southern District of New York

Case Number: 16-10992-smb

Party Name: SunEdison, Inc., et al.,

Filing Type: Bankruptcy, Office: 1 Chapter: 11 [Motion, Sell Property Free And Clear of Liens Under Section 363(f) (Fee)]

Date Published: July 01, 2016…

The governor’s environmental policies are consistently outmoded and self-defeating. A case in point is his irrational opposition to necessary clean energy development like solar and wind.........

Becky Bartovics

North Haven

Tony Donovan

Portland

Executive Committee chair and vice chair, Sierra Club Maine…

     http://www.newfalconherald.com/index.php?Month=07&PrintDay=02&Year=2016  ;      

Steve Forrest, the Rockies and Plains program coordinator for Defenders of Wildlife said………….“The burrowing owls left because the prairie dogs left,” Forrest said. That is not surprising since the owls prey on the prairie dogs, he said. The coyotes likely left because…

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