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Happy Wind Weak: "Kittery Turbine Failed Significantly"

Why is the state approving a $34,214 repayment on $50,000?

Kittery will sell failed wind…

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Added by Long Islander on May 11, 2010 at 10:21am — No Comments

Higher Rates Blowing In

Article in May 11, 2010 Boston Herald about rate increases from Cape Wind's power deal with National Grid.

http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view/20100511higher_rates_blowing_in_cape_wind_contracts_could_generate_6b_tab_over_15_years/srvc=home&position=also

Added by Brian Ruth on May 11, 2010 at 6:35am — 1 Comment

Sisk Mountain Public Hearing Tues & Wed Nights!!

Public Hearing Talking Points For Sisk Mountain DEVELOPMENT PERMIT DP 4860…

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Added by Lisa Lindsay on May 10, 2010 at 4:46pm — No Comments

Europe's Carbon Mafia, And Ours (Investor's Business Daily)

Europe's Carbon Mafia, And Ours

Corruption:…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on May 9, 2010 at 12:48pm — No Comments

Another glimpse at Wind's impact on your electric bill

Less than a week after getting its federal approval, Cape Wind has made a deal with an electric distribution utility in Massachusetts. The company, called National Grid, serves 3.3 million customers in MA, NH, NY, RI, VT. By comparison, Central Maine Power has about a half million customers.



According to the below reports, it is apparent that the reference to the 8 to 10 cents per kWh now paid by customers is their rate before Transmission and… Continue

Added by Art Brigades on May 8, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Has Anyone Searched The Wind Farms For Jimmy Hoffa?

If you haven't yet read the following, it is highly recommended reading:

http://bjdurk.newsvine.com/_news/2010/05/08/4257649-the-cape-wind-offer-national-grid-couldnt-refuse-

Added by Long Islander on May 8, 2010 at 3:41pm — No Comments

UMPI website is now working

I just heard from Webmaster Eric Brisette of UMPI that the live turbine data website site is up and running again. It shows a net gain of 38277 kwh since the site went down 13 days ago. Apparently the turbine kept producing despite the glitch in the fibre link to the site's computer - a net gain of 38277 kwh is reported, or a little less that 3000 kwh a day, which is 20% of nominal capacity.
Harrison Roper Houlton/Danforth

Added by Harrison Roper on May 7, 2010 at 4:33pm — 1 Comment

UMPI website down - some dates and details

I have found the UMPI "live turbine data" website to be "down" on the following dates: April 16-31; May 1-6. The live turbine data website reported drawing power from the grid for a number of days 4/7-4/25 - usually

-3kw, and the kwh reported on the website, which should be labeled "kwh net since comissioning" would go down by one every 3 hours or so. Sometimes it rrported drawing -.3kw, sometimes as much as 6.6 kw or as little as 2. kw. Everything went to zero about 4/26.

The… Continue

Added by Harrison Roper on May 6, 2010 at 2:17pm — No Comments

UMPI Wind Data

Just stopped by the UMPI web site to check out the turbine data. All zeros. "The Live Wind Data page is down. We are aware of the problem and are working with our contractors to find a solution."

How long has this been down? Anyone know?

Added by Brian Ruth on May 6, 2010 at 7:53am — 2 Comments

Task Force co-chairs call for AG investigation of Kurt Adams and First Wind

Citizens Task Force on Wind Power…

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Added by Steve Thurston on May 4, 2010 at 7:18pm — 1 Comment

Does RICO apply to your UPC companies' wind developer?

  • Please note that 1,000 investigators in European countries are conducting a sweeping probe of carbon credits trading schemes. At least 25 have been arrested so far in this CO2 tax probe ongoing.…

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Added by Barbara Durkin on May 4, 2010 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

Wind Power Cannot Compete with Natural Gas

Even with the massive subsidies currently available the wind industry cannot compete with abundant, clean, low cost, domestic natural gas. Low demand for electricity and an unpredictable economic situation in the foreseeable future, causing utilities to be reluctant to enter into long term power purchase agreeements at prices the wind industry needs to be profitable, has the wind industry on the ropes all over the country.
The only thing that can save it is its ability to prey…
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Added by Steve Thurston on May 4, 2010 at 10:29am — 1 Comment

Coming up: Maine Wind Week

May 9-15th is official Maine Windthieves Week During the week there will be open houses, facility tours, and public events. Time for the Truth Force to emerge and dog the governor and… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on May 2, 2010 at 11:24pm — 1 Comment

FOIA'd MDEP and BPL post-legislature wind, wave and tidal energy documents for March 24th to April 9, 2010.

Used the Maine Freedom of Access Act to request documents from DEP and BPL from close of committee decision on LD 1810 to two weeks later when filed request.…


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Added by Ron Huber on April 29, 2010 at 7:20pm — No Comments

Cape Wind: Maine public radio news gets it righter than most

There but for the grace of ...I'm assured that decades of litigation shall be wreaked upon the hapless Cape Wind Wannabes that want to set their poles in the seafloor off Massachusetts.


Maine public radio's story is better coverage than…
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Added by Ron Huber on April 29, 2010 at 1:32am — 4 Comments

Nantucket Shoal wind sprawl plan approval- at least it's not in the Gulf of Maine.

So we'll get to watch and learn the actual impact of these machines on coastal tourism, fisheries, birds, bats, local weather, etc. Sounds cold to say "better there than here", but there it… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on April 28, 2010 at 1:02pm — 2 Comments

Save the Highland Mountains of Maine

Many of the members of the Citizens’ Task Force on Wind know of the existence of the Friends of the Highland Mountains. We formed as a group in November of 2009, after Angus King and Rob Gardiner came to Highland with their plan to place industrial wind turbines along each of Highland’s five mountains.…

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Added by Karen Bessey Pease on April 26, 2010 at 8:00pm — 7 Comments

The Simpsons Discover Wind Power (or lack thereof)

If you're a politician and the late night talk show comics go after you, the end may be near.

Similarly, if you are an electricity generating source (Hint: It doesn't work), and the Simpsons go after you, it can't be good. Well, that's just what they did on TV last night and you can see it whenever you like at:

http://www.windtaskforce.org/video/the-simpsons-discover-wind…

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Added by Long Islander on April 26, 2010 at 5:00pm — 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

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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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