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Taming Unruly Wind Power, New York Times, November 4, 2011

So, here we go, into the strange new world where sometimes, when the wind blows just right, all those hundreds or thousands of usually unproductive turbines in an area spring to life and a huge surge of wind energy goes to the grid.  This article below is from the New York Times.  I have done some highlights in red.  Wind power meets overbuilding capacity meets Big Brother.

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Added by Brad Blake on November 5, 2011 at 10:38pm — No Comments

Vermont cops serve order on wind protesters

The destruction of Lowell mtn:  http://vimeo.com/31645747



Photos of Sheriffs (GMP's goon squad) on the Nelson's property serving members of the public with the Temporary Restraining Order issued by Shumlin-appointed Judge Maley:

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on November 5, 2011 at 3:02pm — 2 Comments

Governor LePage says push for wind and solar power will require state subsidies

The following is excerpted from an article in today's Portland Press-Herald.

 

While he is continuing to focus on welfare reform, LePage said he will also look to make changes in education, the economy and energy.

He discouraged people from signing a petition that is likely to be found at polling places on Tuesday that would require Maine's utilities to get 20 percent of their power from renewable…

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Added by Long Islander on November 5, 2011 at 7:30am — No Comments

Mike DiCenso: All the colors of wind power should be presented at panels, not just one

All the colors of wind power should be presented at…

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Added by Long Islander on November 3, 2011 at 9:30am — 3 Comments

LEGISLATIVE ALERT: The Fitts Amendment - Your Input is Essential

Each January the Governor's Office of Energy  and Security reports to the legislature on the State's progress in achieving the goals of the Expedited Wind Law - 2007  S.661.   This year the legislature required the GOES to expand its review to include the following,  otherwise known as the "Fitts Amendment" to LD 1366.

Public input will be essential to counteract the pro-wind bias that is contained in this amendment.…

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Added by Steve Thurston on November 2, 2011 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Candidates Contrast on Energy Subsidies at Iowa Forum

 

Nov 1, 2011 4:03pm

Candidates Contrast on Energy Subsidies at Iowa Forum

PELLA, Iowa – Rep. Michele Bachmann and Newt Gingrich differed the most today on energy subsidies and tax credits at a candidates’ forum here, with Bachmann saying she believes energy industries “need to stand on their own” and Gingrich calling it a…

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Added by Long Islander on November 2, 2011 at 1:08pm — No Comments

Will Occupy target green cronyism, too?

11/1/11

Column: Will Occupy target green cronyism, too?



Here is a pop quiz for people who support the …

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Added by Long Islander on November 2, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments

JOIN OUR EUROPEAN ALLIES AND CALL FOR AN END TO SUBSIDIES FOR WIND POWER

Folks,

It is time to join our friends in Europe (see below) and demand and end to the subsidies for wind power. The federal government is using stimulus funds, increasing the deficit, to finance wind projects. We are borrowing money from China to subsidize the destruction of Maine's landscape, and then using the money to pay wind developers so they can buy turbines from China or other foreign countries. Our children and grandchildren are on the hook for repayment of this… Continue

Added by Steve Thurston on November 1, 2011 at 2:26pm — No Comments

Key Findings of Energy Subsidy Poll

Key Findings of Energy Subsidy Poll

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Added by Long Islander on October 31, 2011 at 8:01pm — No Comments

Quiet Places & Quietude

Quiet Places & Quietude 





Quiet places, where the sounds of nature can be heard uninterrupted by the sounds of human beings, are some of our most endangered habitats. 



Recordists of nature sounds and others who return time after time to listen to and document previously pristine locations world-wide, find that these are fast disappearing under the…
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Added by Long Islander on October 31, 2011 at 12:54am — No Comments

Green and Energy Efficient In The Same Sentence

NORWOOD — Massachusetts

In a move toward energy efficiency, the Board of Selectmen, working as the town’s light commissioners, voted on Tuesday, May 25, to buy 17 percent of Spruce Mountain Wind Project’s electricity output.

“It’s a good move for the town to buy into the ‘green’ (energy) at a reasonable cost,” Selectman Bill Plasko said.

The electricity from Maine-based Spruce Mountain Wind Project makes up about 3 percent of the Norwood Light…

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Added by Dan McKay on October 30, 2011 at 4:10pm — No Comments

Massive Bird Kill and Suggestion That Recent Similar Major Kill at Stetson Has Been Hushed Up

The person who directed me to this article wrote in her email that "there was a similar major bird kill by the turbines at Stetson recently..but this has apparently been hushed up".

 

I can't verify this so please regard accordingly while remembering "where there's smoke, there's fire".

thursday, october 27, 2011…

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Added by Long Islander on October 30, 2011 at 3:00am — 6 Comments

Cape Wind Halted!

Court puts Cape Wind on hold

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Added by Long Islander on October 30, 2011 at 2:30am — No Comments

Wind power moratorium gets hearing in Peru

Wind power moratorium gets hearing in Peru

 

Published on Friday, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:12 am | Last updated on Friday, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:12 am 3… Continue

Added by Long Islander on October 29, 2011 at 11:00pm — No Comments

COMMENTS FOR THIS PAGE ARE CLOSED!!

Comments for this page are closed!!

 

Yesterday a post called Hot, dry weather leads to increased forest fire risk was posted. One person got to leave a comment and the article was immediately shut down. No further comments could be made. --- As if the article were , ahem, spurious.…

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Added by MaineHiker on October 29, 2011 at 9:36am — 2 Comments

Read it Anyways

Forest fires and wind turbines: The danger no one is talking about

By Clyde MacDonald, Special to the BDN

Posted June 29, 2011, at 6:19 p.m.…

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Added by MaineHiker on October 28, 2011 at 10:24pm — 1 Comment

Cushing Residents to Weigh in on Wind Generators

Cushing Residents to Weigh in on Wind Generators
10/27/2011 1:42:00 PM …
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Added by Long Islander on October 27, 2011 at 9:30pm — No Comments

International Appalachian Trail Gets $ponsor$hip $upport from First Wind

10/25/11 - First Wind sponsors International Appalachian Trail as it plans to despoil the views from the trail

 

This may have been in place for awhile, but we just stumbled upon it today - a First Wind Sponsorship of the International Appalachian Trail (IAT).

Your taxpayer dollars hard at work garnering good will for Appalachian mountaintop carver First Wind.  Note the photo at the top featuring Katahdin, where the AT ends and the IAT…

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Added by Long Islander on October 26, 2011 at 3:00pm — 2 Comments

Natural gas isn’t PC, but it’s the future (JOHN E. SUNUNU)

Natural gas isn’t PC, but it’s the future

EDITORIAL | JOHN E. SUNUNU

October 24, 2011|By John E. Sununu…
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Added by Long Islander on October 26, 2011 at 12:30am — 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

******** 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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