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CMP relying on smart meters or just dumb customers?
"Smart meters key to cutting costs of energy"
The article itself is the usual cheerleading and boosterism for industry that I have come to expect from a paper run by Rich Conner. Why the man thinks he is producing anything like news is beyond me. His refusal to cover the Kurt Adams/PUC story says it all. But that is not my point here.
In the comment section of this article, there is a comment by… Continue
Added by Joanne Moore on April 25, 2010 at 11:44pm — 1 Comment
Views of a Disaster in the Making
Added by Duck Laker on April 25, 2010 at 11:21am — 1 Comment
The Kase of the Krazy Killowatts
April 23, 2010 at 6:42PM
OK, figure this one out, UMPI's wind turbine under performance is apparently exceeded only by that of the turbine's data reporting. The 554,781 KWH year to date production observable just a few hours ago is now ZERO.
Better data are kept by exercisers recording their workouts at $2 spinning classes than at this $2 MILLION spinning class.…
Added by Long Islander on April 23, 2010 at 6:30pm — 6 Comments
Governor Baldacci's Three Year Long Job Interview
Bangor Daily News - January 2, 2010
"Asked about his plans after leaving office next January, Baldacci said he hopes to do some teaching — potentially at the University of Maine — but that he also plans to stay involved in energy issues, perhaps in an advisory capacity. “It’s one [issue] that I am going to continue…
Added by Whetstone_Willy on April 22, 2010 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment
MPBN and First Wind
I know this is a free country and public broadcasting relies on corporate underwtiters these days. But that didn't make me any happier when I saw the following company listed as one of their underwiters on their website.…
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Added by Long Islander on April 22, 2010 at 2:30pm — 5 Comments
Wind at the university - hearts and minds at stake
Added by Ron Huber on April 21, 2010 at 4:58pm — No Comments
Something Fishy on Vinalhaven?
From the March 2010 Fisherman's Voice. Someone just brought this article to my attention.
DEP Questions Fox Island Wind’s Noise Study
DEP Questions Fox Island Wind’s Noise Study
by Steve Cartwright
Fox Islands Wind used an unusual and possibly misleading method to calculate what area should be designated a “quiet zone” around its wind turbines, a state environmental official confirmed.
Jim Cassida, director of the Department of Environmental…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 21, 2010 at 12:00am — 1 Comment
Puzzling UMPI website - a partial solution?
It is a puzzling situation. In the absence of any other information I am gussing… Continue
Added by Harrison Roper on April 20, 2010 at 5:25pm — 2 Comments
New Maine Group Formed to Oppose First Wind's Project on Bowers Mountain - Downeast Lakes Watershed
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Group Opposes First Wind’s Industrial Wind Power Project in Carroll Plantation
Lakeville, Maine, April 12, 2010 –Residents and landowners in Carroll Plantation, Lakeville, Springfield and Grand Lake Stream have formed the non-profit "Partnership for the Preservation of the Downeast Lakes Watershed" (PPDLW) to oppose the construction of an industrial wind project on Bowers Mountain in Carroll Plt. PPDLW asserts that the project will threaten the…
Added by K Campbell on April 20, 2010 at 5:04pm — 1 Comment
National Columnist George Will Unleashes Criticism of Wind
George Will has unleashed the following critique of wind in the 4/19/10 Newsweek. It's been on sale / in mailboxes for at least a week, so you may have seen it.
Excerpt:
"Meanwhile, America, which pioneered nuclear power, is squandering money on wind power, which provides 1.3 percent of the nation's electricity: it is slurping up $30 billion of tax breaks and other subsidies amounting to $18.82 per megawatt-hour, 25 times as much per megawatt-hour as the…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 19, 2010 at 12:16pm — 4 Comments
not a NIMBY an IMFY
Added by alice mckay barnett on April 18, 2010 at 7:58am — No Comments
UMPI Wind Turbine Scorecard
Added by Long Islander on April 16, 2010 at 1:03pm — 18 Comments
Visit to UMPI April 14
Currently, for some reason the rotor is reported at 28.4rpm but there is no power being produced! The big figure… Continue
Added by Harrison Roper on April 15, 2010 at 2:59pm — 5 Comments
UMPI - please provide project to date minute by minute wind turbine data
I just looked around the UMPI website and almost 11 months after the commissioning of the $2 million project I still am not able to see the type of basic performance data one would expect accompanying such a large investment.
You can read about the commissioning in the 5/15/09 Bangor Daily News at…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 13, 2010 at 11:30am — 9 Comments
Sun Journal - The Economics of Wind: What's behind the interest, and what's it mean for jobs
The Sun Journal is running a two part series called "The Economics of Wind". Part 1 runs today, Part 2 tomorrow.
You can find it at
Added by Long Islander on April 11, 2010 at 8:08am — 1 Comment
Unacceptable Scenic Impact of Bowers Mountain Project
Added by Duck Laker on April 10, 2010 at 1:15pm — 9 Comments
The Mahoosucs - aka "The Heights of Hypocrisy" - Shame on the Mahoosuc Land Trust
Mahoosuc Land Trust Accepts Dirty Wind Money
It's a very bad thing when a wind company destroys a mountain top for money. But it is arguably more revolting when an organization whose mission is "To Protect and Conserve Land" for "Unspoiled Scenic Views", celebrates the destruction of a mountain top for money.
Please see the following article where you will read how the Mahoosuc Land Trust did just that.…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 9, 2010 at 7:00pm — 10 Comments
I'm proud to be a NIMBY from Musquacookimby
Maine Voices: An activist discovers that it takes a NIMBY to protect the village
They are the people most willing to defend their territories, families and way of life.
KAREN BESSEY PEASE
When I entered the campaign to save Maine's iconic mountains from development, I had a huge dread: the fear of being seen as a "NIMBY" (Not in my backyard).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Karen Bessey Pease is a…
Added by Long Islander on April 9, 2010 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments
Bats win over windmills in federal court ESA case. Read case & analysis
This is an interesting case that readers may already be familiar with.Below are excerpts from pro-wind lawfirm's Stoel…
ContinueAdded by Ron Huber on April 9, 2010 at 12:26pm — 3 Comments
"Sound" testing protocol for Stetson II received today (April 8)
Hello. - Today (April 8, 2010, I just received from Marcia Spencer-Famous, LURC staff, the protocol for sound testing at Stetson II.I presume it is a public document, The protocol does indeed include dBC.
Harriison Roper
Added by Harrison Roper on April 8, 2010 at 5:09pm — 2 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
******** 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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