BOSTON — Massachusetts has given preliminary approval to Eversource’s Northern Pass proposal to deliver hydropower to the state from Quebec.......State officials said the next step will be to negotiate a final contract with Northern Pass before the project is given final approval by utility regulators.…
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Wind power has been growing rapidly in Maine, but that will likely halt with the governor's new executive order. It not only puts a moratorium on wind power development, it creates a commission to review past and future wind projects in the state.…
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When I first tried to listen to this, nothing happened. Then I clicked on a grayish icon in the upper left and it asked me to "Allow Flash". Then it worked.…
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Massachusetts is now poised to destroy what makes Maine such an attractive destination
Maine people are preparing for battle, as historic decisions are being made this month in Boston. The Massachusetts Clean Energy RFP, a competitive solicitation for renewable power, has attracted proposals to develop industrial-scale wind energy that could more than triple the installed wind projects now in Maine.......
Now, having witnessed wind’s colossal…
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In a full-page ad in the Boston Globe on Sunday, the Conservation Law Foundation told Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker that the proposed Northern Pass project should be disqualified from the Mass. Clean Energy RFP aimed at reducing carbon emissions because it lied in its bid.
The open letter to Baker said the proposed 192-mile high-voltage transmission line that would cut through New Hampshire from Pittsburg to Deerfield is unacceptable for its environmental impacts alone.
“But…
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A collapsed wind turbine in Chatham-Kent is renewing calls for wind projects to be stopped. (Monte McNaughton/Twitter)…
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Plans to bring the cable ashore in Port Clyde, a village in the town of St. George, met backlash from residents and fishermen who worried the project would harm their way of life. Last month, the St. George Selectboard voted to formally oppose the project.................
Maine Aqua Ventus has identified 11 other possible routes, and the top two options are being evaluated, Ward said. However, details of those top routes are not yet ready to be disclosed, he…
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In large measure, you can thank Maine's so called environmental groups and their comrades in Mother Massachusetts for your high electricity prices. These wind pushing and wind-industry protecting elites invariably claim the high moral ground, yet via high electricity costs they are doing terrible harm to the poorest folks in Maine, to say nothing of the middle class.
New England — including Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode…
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Poor families spend multiple times more of their hard-earned income on heat and electricity than their more affluent neighbors.....Efforts by environmental groups have blocked expansion at every turn. They reject cleaner-burning natural gas in favor of burning high-emission oil in our power plants......
The full letter is here:…
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Efforts by some environmental activists to block natural gas infrastructure, mainly pipelines, have had the opposite of their intended effect. The goal was to prevent more greenhouse gas emissions, but the constraints on natural gas have forced electricity generators to turn to high-emission coal and oil instead. Gas is a fossil fuel, but it releases less carbon than coal and oil. The region would have produced less pollution this month, not more, if it had better gas…
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Dishonesty? No sorry that doesn't fly, not when the entire expedited wind law, a bill written by and for the wind industry was dishonestly sold to Mainers as a panacea. Not when former Maine senate president Justin Alfond was caught exchanging 171 pages of emails with the wind industry. Not when the Maine Power Reliability Program (MPRP)…
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Something seems to be afoot in Roxbury, ME with a company named RoxWind, LLC associated with attorney John Richardson of Moncure & Barnicle in Topsham and a gubernatorial candidate in 2010, commissioner of the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development under Governor John Baldacci between 2007-2009, and a Maine legislator for Brunswick…
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This PPH shill piece is wrong on so many counts. It feels as though it was almost dictated to the paper's editorial board by the wind industry and/or the University of Maine. It's all about getting "free money" from the government. Nothing more.
https://www.pressherald.com/2018/01/11/our-view-maine-should-stay-the-course-on-ocean-wind-power/
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Tourism is the lifeblood of Maine. The excerpt below from "MAINE WIND ASSESSMENT 2012, A REPORT" dated 1/31/12 (six years ago) prepared for the Governor’s Office of Energy Independence and Security discusses wind development and tourism.
The passage below notes: (comments in bold are mine)
" we are aware of no…
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Someone might want to tell these persons to get off their high unicorns for a moment and understand that just for starters, electricity generation accounts for only 9% of Maine's CO2 emissions. So wind at best could reduce but a small fraction of CO2 in that 9%. Desecrate perhaps 50% of…
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Sample articles:
Short video: Wind energy destruction of a forest and its ecosystem
Avangrid 2016 Financial statement. Note exceptionally high profits
Report: Gas Saves More CO2 than Wind Does!
Wild lands ‘irrevocably damaged’ by push for wind power
US Accidental Bird Death Regulation is Modified
Wind Energy is an Out-of-Date Solution
The hidden costs of wind-power subsidies…
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The bids are broken up into two sections, 83D and 83C, the latter covering offshore wind. In many cases, the information on the bids themselves is so heavily redacted, that in terms of supplying information to the public, it is a worthless charade. In other words, in some cases, gargantuan projects which a company has been working on for perhaps five years, are still cloaked in deep secrecy. This is so by the time a project is actually announced and an application in Maine is filed, the…
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Charting Maine’s Future: An Action Plan for Promoting Sustainable Prosperity and Quality Places
"As the search for quality places grows in importance, Maine possesses a globally known“brand” built on images of livable communities, stunning scenery, and great recreational…
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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 - 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."
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