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Why Ethanol and Natural Gas Don’t Deserve Subsidies

Why Ethanol and Natural Gas Don’t Deserve Subsidies

Two of the energy subsidy debates in Washington focus on tax credits for the ethanol and natural gas industries. The growing opposition to the $6 billion…

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Added by Long Islander on June 22, 2011 at 2:42pm — No Comments

Governor LePage: Wind Turbines Damaging Maine's Quality of Life and Mountains"

June 18, 2011

Governor takes town hall meeting to Rockport

About 250 people turn out for his fifth Capitol for a Day event since his inauguration.

By Susan M. Cover …

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Added by Long Islander on June 20, 2011 at 12:07pm — No Comments

Rumford pro-wind ordinance defeated

Rumford wind ordinance defeated

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Added by Long Islander on June 16, 2011 at 2:44pm — 1 Comment

Spirited debate meets Appleton town meeting

 

Spirited debate meets Appleton town meeting

By Kim Lincoln | Jun 16, 2011…
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Added by Long Islander on June 16, 2011 at 2:41pm — No Comments

Wind Turbines and Forest Fires by Clyde MacDonald

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Please click on the above link to read an excellent letter written by Clyde MacDonald and published in the current issue of Northern Logger.

 

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Added by Long Islander on June 13, 2011 at 4:30pm — 5 Comments

America Needs the Shale Revolution

America Needs the Shale Revolution

The drilling boom is the best U.S. energy news in generations and is crucial for reviving domestic manufacturing.…

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Added by Long Islander on June 13, 2011 at 2:23pm — 1 Comment

Woodstock wind towers to be in place by fall

Woodstock wind towers to be in place by fall

By Ken Briggs
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Jun 09, 2011 12:00 am

WOODSTOCK —   Andy Novey, from Patriot Renewables, told Woodstock Selectmen that his company is "aiming to start generating electricity by the end…

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Added by Dan McKay on June 12, 2011 at 11:54am — 1 Comment

FERC first quarter 2011production figures finally posted

Finally, FERC has posted the quarterly power sales figures that it puts on its website as a courtesy.  For three major wind farms in Maine, they are: 

Evergreen Wind Power V. LLC (Stetson I): 51 MWH

Stetson Wind II, LLC:  20 MWH

Evergreen Wind Power, LLC (Mars Hill): 40 MWH

   Harrison Roper 

Houlton, ME

Added by Harrison Roper on June 8, 2011 at 5:56pm — No Comments

Robert Bryce: The Gas Is Greener

The Gas Is Greener





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Added by Long Islander on June 8, 2011 at 5:39pm — 1 Comment

50 "yes for wind" signs stole in Rumford

http://www.sunjournal.com/river-valley/story/1042482#comment-79406

 

how do we help each other?

Added by alice mckay barnett on June 7, 2011 at 8:09pm — No Comments

Sumner overwhelmingly passes wind development moratorium

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Sumner overwhelmingly passes wind development moratorium

SUMNER — Voters passed a 180-day moratorium on industrial wind power development Monday by a vote of…

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Added by Long Islander on June 7, 2011 at 9:26am — No Comments

600 KW Wind Turbine at Newburyport, MA compared with 600 KW UMPI Turbine

There hasn't been much data reporting or electricity production going on at the UMPI wind turbine for the past few months. So we got a little restless and decided to visit the website of another 600 KW wind turbine - this one in Newburyport, MA.

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Added by Long Islander on June 6, 2011 at 11:00pm — 3 Comments

First comes the wind developer, then comes a lifetime of regret

6/3/11 First comes the wind developer, then comes the met tower, then comes a lifetime of regret

AN OPEN LETTER FROM A WISCONSIN FARMER WHO REGRETS SIGNING A WIND CONTRACT

 "By signing that contract, I signed…

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Added by Long Islander on June 6, 2011 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

March UMPI Turbine output finally posted; FERC quarterly data lacking

UMPI  has finally posted March power production: 17564 KWH, or 566 KWH per day. The turbine's capacity  is

600 KW, or 600X24=14400 KWH per day.  This figures  as a 3.9%  capacity factor, or less than an hour per day of "good" wind. 

This sort of  "explanation" of the lack of other data has been posted for about 10 weeks::

    "The  Live  Wind Turbine Data is not currently active due to repairs. The general contractor anticipates

this system will be functional this…

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Added by Harrison Roper on June 5, 2011 at 9:13am — No Comments

A Brief Education on TIF's

This is an email I received from a gentleman who was kind enough to break down the "TIF" process to me so I could understand how it DOES NOT benefit the tax paying citizens of Dixfield, ME.

 

Mr. Daley

 

Thank you for asking for…

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Added by Hart Daley on June 2, 2011 at 9:54am — 2 Comments

Sumner citizens to decide on wind farm moratorium - June 6

http://www.advertiserdemocrat.com/news/story/02-21-news-sumnerwind-21-0

 

SUMNER — A June 6 date has been set for the people of Sumner to decide whether to institute a temporary ban on wind farms.

The selectmen unanimously accepted a recommendation from the Planning Board on Tuesday that a special town meeting be held to vote on a six-month moratorium for wind farms.

Members of…

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Added by Denise Hall on May 31, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments

Norman Kalloch: The coming chronicle of industrial wind in Maine

 

 

Highland Wind a challege to 'environmental' groups (Portland Press-Herald)

I suspect that in the future some ambitious person will write a history of industrial wind power in Maine and in that book will be a chapter on the Highland Wind project in Highland Plantation.

The cast of characters, the plot and the long winding road to resolution will make for an interesting read.

Angus King, past Maine…

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Added by Long Islander on May 29, 2011 at 11:52am — No Comments

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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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