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…

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…

Rural citizens lose battle to have say in wind tower rezoning

By: NAOMI SCHALIT AND JOHN CHRISTIE ©MAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST…

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.

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:…

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.

I encourage you to read the following from Scottish Wild Land Group with authors from the John Muir Trusts. As you may know Scotland has aggressively built wind turbines in the open area…hopefully not in their wildlife sanctuary areas. 

Wind Farms Gone Wild: Is the environmental damage justified?

Why are personnel of the John Muir Trusts “the UK's leading wild land conservation charity.…

This piece ran in today's Wall Street Journal.  One has to buy the paper or be an on-line subscriber to read it.  By a stroke of luck, this is actually a piece picked up from June 17th in "The Hockey Schtick" blog.  So I have picked it up from that blog.  But being on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal is a major coup.   The Heartland Institute was instrumental in helping to defeat the renewal of the Production Yax Credit in Congress last year and the author is the science…

The cost of requiring more renewable power

By Carol Weston, Special to the BDN

It’s not easy to unite the right-wing Heartland Institute and bird-loving environmentalists.

But that’s what some wind energy developers appear to be doing by proposing to the federal government that they be allowed to kill bald eagles and other protected species with their turbines.

Read the full article here:…

For shame:

http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/dislike-of-panhandlers-fuels-ban-proposal_2013-06-17.html

and also at:…

True cost of Britain's wind farm industry revealed ... 

Every job in Britain’s wind farm industry is effectively subsidised to the extent of £100,000 per year...

UK Telegraph 15 Jun 2013

A new analysis of government and industry figures shows that wind turbine owners received £1.2billion in the form of a…

Aroostook County is one of the most beautiful and special places in the United States and there are plans to desecrate nearly every hilltop with out of place and out of scale wind turbines that do not work. The Bangor Daily News has chosen to use a photo of the failed UMPI turbine with the opinion piece. Wouldn't it be nice if the Bangor Daily News would report the facts about the UMPI debacle and every other turbine in the state - none of which are living up to…

A word of advice, when you see a new program come along with a name that contains a word like "Smart" or "Community", put up your guard and hang onto your wallet.



The smart meter debacle is all about wind power.



Wind is an electric grid keeper's worst nightmare because the grid keeper must match electrical supply with electrical demand, and erratic wind holds too many…

America should learn from Europe on wind power: Column

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Give UT residents a say in wind energy development

By Alan Michka, Special to the BDN

Clifton planners won’t allow public comment during wind farm meeting…

A word of advice, when you see a new program come along with a name that contains a word like "Smart" or "Community", put up your guard and hang onto your wallet.

Wind is potentially an electric  grid keeper's worst nightmare because the grid keeper must match electrical supply with electrical demand, and erratic wind holds too many surpises.…

  The UMPI turbine had pretty poor wind for the first ten days of June. It generated just 11,621 kWh. If there was a perfect wind, if would generate 14,400 kWh in just one day (600 kW X 24  hrs)!

  But the wind lately has been far from perfect; in fact, the UMPI turbine actually consumed grid power on June 7 (-10 kWh) and June 9  (-8 kWh).     …