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Hinck thinks he's right.

http://www.sunjournal.com/news/letters/2012/04/08/j-hinck-money-belongs-taxpayers/1178140

Added by alice mckay barnett on April 10, 2012 at 7:52am — No Comments

Reference to Angus King's Wind Loan Guarantee in Washington Post and Bangor Daily News

Former Maine governor seeks Senate seat as independent, is critical of GOP policies

By Associated Press, …

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Added by Long Islander on April 9, 2012 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment

Verrill Dana and First Wind Walloped by PPDLW and Maine guides

LURC decision leaves First Wind facing first defeat in Maine

By Nick Sambides Jr., BDN Staff
Posted April 06, 2012, at 6:21 p.m.…


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Added by Long Islander on April 9, 2012 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments

Mad World Video

Mad World of Wind Turbines, video 3:26

 

3 minutes 26 seconds totally worth it.

 

Thank you to Dan Tubbs for the share.

Added by Ellin Beltz on April 9, 2012 at 4:46pm — No Comments

Alert to email Morgan Wright at DOE

1703 funding solicitation from DOE. Click on sent letters link found in 2nd paragraph of article, then click on the pdf.

See 4. Additionality. 4th paragraph.
Morgan Wright electronically at Morgan.Wright@hq.doe.gov.

Please take a few minutes to email him before April 27, 2012.

Added by Penny Melko on April 9, 2012 at 4:08am — 1 Comment

OAKFIELD APPEAL IS THIS WEDNESDAY - PLEASE ATTEND AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!

Folks,

The fight moves from the Downeast Lakes to Oakfield and Island Falls,  where First Wind has been granted a permit to destroy the view from two Class 1 lakes - Mattawamkeag Lake and Pleasant Lake with 50 turbines each nearly 500 feet tall.   Lynne Williams has submitted a well written appeal,  which will be heard by the BEP on Wednesday April 11 at the State Planning Office, Room 110, 19 Union Street, Augusta.  The meeting begins at 9 am.  

The appeal brief and the staff…

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Added by Steve Thurston on April 7, 2012 at 10:08am — 7 Comments

Direct Impact: Talking with victims of IWT. Neil Anderson, Barb Ashbee, Richard Braithwaite and Gerry Meyer – Sun. April 8th, 7pm ET

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Added by WWR on April 7, 2012 at 1:35am — No Comments

FIRST WIND DENIED THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOWERS MOUNTAIN PROJECT!

 

MAY THIS WONDERFUL STORY GIVE  HOPE AND INSPIRATION TO ALL  WIND  WARRIORS!

THANK  YOU PPDLW:

  

PRESS RELEASE FROM PPDLW:

 

CONTACT: Kevin Gurall                                               FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

           Email:  kevin@ppdlw.org

   CONTACT:  Gary Campbell

           Email: …

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on April 6, 2012 at 4:30pm — 12 Comments

FERC 1st quarter '12 spreadsheets are posted

FERC has posted some speadsheets of data on generators' power sales for the 1st quarter of 2012.  Ths list is short and will grow as more data reports come in. In a quick scan, I did not spot any Maine wind facilities' data. The quarterly summaries will be posted in a couple of weeks.

Harrison Roper  Houlton/Danforth, ME 

Added by Harrison Roper on April 6, 2012 at 1:55pm — No Comments

Leading Bird Conservation Group Formally Petitions Feds to Regulate Wind Industry

Petition presents a viable alternative to inadequate, unenforceable voluntary guidelines drafted by the government... (Washington, D.C., December 14, 2011) American Bird Conservancy (ABC), the nation’s leading bird conservation organization, today formally petitioned the U.S. Department of the Interior to protect millions of birds from the negative impacts of wind energy by developing regulations that will safeguard wildlife and reward responsible wind energy…

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Added by Ellin Beltz on April 5, 2012 at 1:07pm — No Comments

Vinalhaven energy price

I wold like to know what Vinalhaven's  energy price per kwh was  before the turbines, and what it is now.

Thank you - Harry Roper   Houlton/Danforth

207-532-3797

Added by Harrison Roper on April 4, 2012 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

Another windy ripoff...

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/mar/30/nv-energy-windmill-program-generates-rebates-littl/

this time in small systems

Added by Ellin Beltz on April 4, 2012 at 1:23pm — No Comments

Email to Rep Stacey Fitts

Rep Fitts,

You should abstain from any vote regarding hydro power or energy in general if you are receiving compensation in any way from industrial wind companies. I am disgusted to think you would chose to protect "investors" in industrial wind rather than lowering electricity costs for the citizens of Maine who are struggling with increased energy costs! Shame on you. I only wish I lived in your district so I could…

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Added by Hart Daley on April 4, 2012 at 8:08am — 4 Comments

Citizen warned Dept. of Energy not to loan money to King’s wind company - The Maine Wire

The Maine Wire continued the Record Hill Wind/DOE loan guarantee story again today, printing my testimony to the DOE in opposition to Record Hill Wind's application for a loan guarantee.  Mine was one of several dozen testimonies (all opposed) sent to the DOE in response to the draft Environmental Impact Statement. 

 

The DOE issued a finding of "no significant impact" for this project, despite their acknowledgement…

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Added by Steve Thurston on April 3, 2012 at 8:41pm — 1 Comment

U.S. Senate Hopeful Angus King Lamely Defends the $102 million Loan he Finagled with the Yale University Endowment

Wind farm loan wasn't a mistake, King says

The U.S. Senate candidate rebuts GOP claims that a federal loan for Record Hill in Roxbury was too risky an investment.

By Jonathan Riskind …

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Added by Long Islander on April 1, 2012 at 10:00am — 2 Comments

Blowing in the wind: Maine’s energy past and future

Blowing in the wind: Maine’s energy past and future

By Kevin Miller, BDN Staff
Posted March 30, 2012, at 12:58 p.m.

Last modified March 30, 2012, at 9:18 p.m.…
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Added by Long Islander on March 31, 2012 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

BREAKING: Pingree helped King get $102 million Federal loan guarantee. (From the MaineWire)

 

BREAKING: Pingree helped King get $102 million Federal loan guarantee

The Maine Wire has obtained a letter sent from U.S Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D- Maine) to the Department of Energy in support of Angus King’s Record Hill Wind project.  Record Hill was…

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Added by Steve Thurston on March 31, 2012 at 8:19am — 6 Comments

Senate Defeats Obama Oil and Gas Tax Hike Again

Senate Defeats Obama Oil and Gas Tax Hike Again

Link to Inhofe Floor Speech: Stopping the Obama War on Affordable Energy…

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Added by Hart Daley on March 29, 2012 at 3:19pm — 1 Comment

Obama, Menendez Push Economically Painful Anti-Energy Bill

Obama, Menendez Push Economically Painful Anti-Energy Bill

      By                            Pete Sepp

March 28, 2012    RSS Feed …

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Added by Hart Daley on March 28, 2012 at 6:50pm — 1 Comment

INVESTIGATORS CONTACTED KING'S WIND COMPANY DAYS BEFORE REPORT RELEASED

http://www.themainewire.com/

While U.S. Senate candidate Angus King was busy discussing the ethical benefits of selling his company, behind the scenes Independence Wind was becoming part of a congressional probe into inappropriate federal loan guarantees.Despite an increasingly tangled timeline, the former governor’s campaign maintains he had no knowledge of the probe.

Congressional investigators sent an official letter to…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on March 27, 2012 at 8:39am — 4 Comments

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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

******** 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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