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Fears over 'widespread' EU fraud involving the Mafia

This November 30, 2010 BBC Europe News source identifies Antonio Birrittella as a defected Mob boss who  is co-operating with the police and other Italian authorities.  Birrittella provides an insiders look at the Mafia's exploitation of wind energy. 

Full article-http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11848048

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Added by Barbara Durkin on July 6, 2013 at 1:48pm — 3 Comments

Italian mafia 'turns to wind farm investment to launder money and benefit from EU subsidies'

The scam works on multiple levels, using the age-old formula of intimidation of landowners and infiltration of regional agencies that hand out subsidies and award contracts, observers believe.

Italian mafia 'turns to wind farm investment to launder money and benefit from EU subsidies'

  • Winds farms, and renewable energy in general, are the most popular…
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Added by Whetstone_Willy on July 6, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments

Al Diamon writes about MPBN's non-disclosure of First Wind contributions in article about First Wind

Please see Mr. Diamon's piece here:

http://thebollard.com/2013/07/01/media-mutt-90/

In addition to disclosure, it would be nice to see some hard edged reporting.

For example, the MPBN article used the wholly deceptive and tired wind industry claim that "...the project would generate 186 megawatts of electrcity - enough to power as many as 87,000 homes." …

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Added by Long Islander on July 5, 2013 at 9:00pm — 4 Comments

PPH ATTACKS GOVERNOR LEPAGE ON WIND

http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/governor-is-driving-away-statoils-investment_2013-07-04.html

A bill that was sold as a way to help UMaine is really a plan to hurt offshore wind development.

We all know what Gov. LePage thinks about wind power. He hates it.…

Hywind on location
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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on July 4, 2013 at 12:02pm — 1 Comment

BDN - Offshore wind project put on hold after political battle over energy bill

Offshore wind project put on hold after political battle over energy bill

By Christopher Cousins and Whit Richardson, BDN Staff
Posted July 03, 2013, at 2:07 p.m.

Last modified July 03, 2013, at 4:42 p.m.…
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Added by Long Islander on July 3, 2013 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

Rare white- throated needletail killed by wind turbine

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/horrified-birdwatchers-see-rare-white-throated-2003724

Horrified birdwatchers see rare white-throated needletail fly into wind  turbine

28 Jun 2013 08:22

About 200 wildlife lovers gathered on Wednesday to see the…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on July 1, 2013 at 12:58pm — 3 Comments

Governor LePage: Politicians work around the clock to kill common-sense legislation

... and don't we know that.

Weekly Message: Protecting the Next Generation (6/29/13)

The following is…

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Added by Long Islander on June 29, 2013 at 9:44am — No Comments

James C. LaBrecque on L.D. 616 in BDN: Delaying the Rights of Maine People

Recently, LD 616, a bill allowing citizens in Unorganized Territories to have a voice in zoning wind towers, which the Baldacci administration stripped from the public through the 2008 Wind Energy Act, was pulled from the omnibus energy bill. Senate Democratic Leader Seth Goodall of Richmond said the reason he was pulling the bill was, “These are…

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Added by Long Islander on June 29, 2013 at 4:30am — 3 Comments

BDN - Developers see fertile land for wind turbines in Jonesport

Developers see fertile land for wind turbines in Jonesport

By Bill Trotter, BDN Staff
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Added by Long Islander on June 27, 2013 at 3:38pm — No Comments

Northern Pass unveils plan to run underground wires at additional $200 million

June 27. 2013 11:26AM

Northern Pass unveils plan to run underground wires at additional $200 million

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20130627/NEWS/130629281

Just really a press release. Not as much underground as the…

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Added by Long Islander on June 27, 2013 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

The Ikoots of Tehuantepec Fighting for ancestral rights

This article is being posted on behalf of Lynne Williams. The place described is over a 3,000 mile drive from Maine. But it feels like Maine or maybe Maine feels like Tehuantepec.

To All, Many of the struggles are hidden, like the one described below.  Lynne

Fighting for ancestral rights

In Mexico, indigenous communities living in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca state - a…

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Added by Long Islander on June 26, 2013 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments

Danish Government Dumps Onshore Wind

This is worth noting given how the wind industry and their sock puppets at the so called and on-the-take environmental groups in Maine like to cite Denmark as a shining role model of wind power. DONG is 76% owned by the Danish government. ""Every time we were building onshore, the public reacts in a …

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Added by Long Islander on June 25, 2013 at 11:00am — 4 Comments

Renewables imploding in Germany and Spain

Europe’s Renewables Hype Implodes As German Solar Goes Belly Up

http://www.energytribune.com/77909/europes-renewables-hype-implodes-as-german-solar-goes-belly-up#sthash.ylJ758Yv.wyLhcjPz.dpbs

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Added by Long Islander on June 24, 2013 at 9:54pm — No Comments

Connecticut Approves Large Scale Hydroelectric as a Renewable

Bravo Connecticut!

And then of course there's Vermont, which signed a 20 year deal for low cost Canadian hydro. Maine has had the opportunity to do the same, but instead chooses to protect the out of state wind industry and make Maine ratepayers pay dearly to support these parasites.…

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Added by Long Islander on June 24, 2013 at 9:00pm — 3 Comments

Maine Voices: Benefits of hydropower require investment now in our energy future

Maine Voices: Benefits of hydropower require investment now in our energy future

Let's do more to harness a source that is inexpensive, versatile, very efficient and good for the environment.

By ROSE GRIFFIN…

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Added by Long Islander on June 24, 2013 at 12:00am — 1 Comment

We were warned: Polite Discourse Does Not Work

We can't say we weren't warned. It was all written right here.

For years we have patiently followed the rules. We've done everything we were asked to do. Yet this week the Maine Senate just completely blew off the citizens whose rights were stolen by the wind con men.

Listen again please, for there is no other way to say it -  the Maine Senate just…

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Added by Long Islander on June 23, 2013 at 3:00pm — 5 Comments

Why have virtually none of the state's newspapers run this story?

Rural citizens lose battle to have say in wind tower rezoning

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Added by Long Islander on June 23, 2013 at 5:30am — 4 Comments

Maine Senate Democrats cast vote in favor of industrial wind power lobby, against unorganized territories.

Need to get the roll call and give those who voted with the lobby an earful.

Can we start protesting now? It's such a corrupt business.

Added by Lyle on June 19, 2013 at 9:51pm — 2 Comments

Friends of Maine's Mountains. v. Bd. of Envtl. Prot.

Al Diamon has a piece up

http://thebollard.com/2013/06/19/media-mutt-87/

saying he can't find a bias in Colin Woodard's new Press Herald "expose" of the Board of Environmental Protection & Patricia Aho:…

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Added by Lyle on June 19, 2013 at 9:38pm — No Comments

Friends in NH Need Help with Wind Petition

Please take a moment and go to the following link and review and sign the petition if you agree with it.

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/wind-isnt-working?source=c.url&r_by=4692087

Let's lend all the support we can to our friends in New Hampshire. To an eagle, it's all the same place.

Added by John Gates on June 19, 2013 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

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U.S. Sen Angus King

THE UNTOLD STORY OF RECORD HILL WIND

The Untold Story of Record Hill Wind, continued

 

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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