(Reuters) - The Netherlands has been famous for its windmills for centuries but now one of its most populous provinces has said it wants to ban their modern-day incarnations - wind turbines - on the grounds that they are ugly and noisy.  Read more...

PS... this is the province which includes Amsterdam, the…

IS THIS VISTA FROM THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL

ON BALDPATE THE FUTURE???

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The day before the AWEA Regional Conference was to begin, I sent the following to all Maine media to let them know that we, the citizens, wanted to be included in the reporting on the AWEA regional conference.  I provided plenty of facts as well as our common positions of opposition to wind power development in Maine. 

Two Letters to the Editor from the 8/10/12 Bangor Daily News

The Maine media bias in favor of wind development has been obvious for some time. A recent BDN article served as a perfect example. The story of the truck losing its wind tower load in a ditch went the extra mile for the industry by devoting much of its space to promotional data for First Wind and the industry in general.

I don’t recall other stories reporting truck accidents including…

Guides, lodge owners honor LePage for stance against wind power

Presentation takes place at annual retreat for financial, economics insiders

A group of economists, financial advisers, hedge fund managers and bankers…

Stacey Fitts, co-chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology, works for Kleinschmidt Associates, an engineering, licensing, environmental service firm offering specialized technical services to the renewable industry.



Co-Chair Fitts was quoted in the February 7, 2011 Sun-Journal as saying "Everyone…

LePage: Wind power a ‘boutique energy source’

Green ‘drivel’ 

The godfather of global warming lowers the boom on climate change hysteria

FIRST POSTED: SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2012 06:03 PM…

Wind summit touts growing Maine potential

But critics say improvements in wind technology aren't necessarily a good thing for Maine.

By Tux Turkel tturkel@mainetoday.com

Staff…

Truth Test: Republican ad fails to get facts, period

It attacks two Senate candidates: independent Angus King over a loan he didn't benefit from and Democrat Cynthia Dill over bills that died before affecting taxpayers.

By Michael Shepherd …

Summers' new front against King may be in the wind

Republicans criticize the independent former governor as a wind farm developer who benefited from a controversial federal loan guarantee. Angus King, however, says he's proud of the Record Hill project.

By John Richardson …

A natural gas solution

LePage: Energy Independence Could Revitalize the American Economy

Governor Paul LePage on Monday applauded the new energy plan introduced by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, which focuses on making America energy independent by the year 2020. The plan looks to achieve this critical goal by bringing all cost-effective sources…

An estimated 12 million migratory birds will be put at risk if two large offshore wind turbine projects are built in Lake Ontario, according to a report released…

Maine Wire Editorial: Wind-power agenda fuels CMP increases

Photo of First Wind turbines at the Rollins wind project by Brad Blake

On July 1, most of Central Maine Power’s customers unknowingly suffered a 19.6% increase in…

The entire island of Lanai, Hawaii is owned by a single person and the U.S. Government. When local "resorts struggled with the recent economic downturn and the challenge of bringing tourists to a remote island with single-propeller air service, the island’s owner proposed building a field of 45-story turbine windmills, across bluffs and beaches covering over a quarter of the island, to produce energy to sell to Oahu. The plan polarized residents, dividing those who saw the turbines as the…

8/20/12

Excerpt:

The next line of attack will likely center on crony capitalism. As governor, King signed a law requiring Maine utilities to produce at least 30 percent of their energy from renewable sources such as wind — and then, after leaving office, moved quickly to profit from the mandate he enacted by forming a wind energy business. He secured …