May 15, 2024

When tragedy strikes, lawmakers predictably capitalize on the moment to make laws intended to prevent similar events. But such reflexive legislation is all too often based more on emotion surrounding unusual circumstances than it is upon sound logic and philosophical foundations.

Years ago, swayed by incessant media reports about the environment, I was card-carrying Sierra Club member urging the government to “do something” to steer society toward “green”…

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Once Unthinkable Nuclear Plant Revival Is a Reality in US Shift

Gambling With The Grid’: New Data Highlights Achilles’ Heel Of One Of Biden’s

Favorite Green Power Sources

The…

By Valerie Volcovici

May 13, 20245:37 PM EDT

WASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday approved the first major electric transmission policy update in over a decade that aims to speed up new interregional lines to move more clean energy to meet growing demand amid the explosion of electric vehicles, data centers and artificial intelligence.

Approved in a 2-1 vote, the new rule is also the first time the FERC has ever…

“Those numbers are troubling on the surface but when you consider the brands our respondents represent, it might be even more distressing,” the report stated,

By Kevin Killough

May 11, 2024

A survey of managers and executives at dealerships finds that 65% say they are pessimistic about the future of electric vehicles

CDK Global, a research firm specializing in data for dealerships, surveyed 250 dealership managers and executives and found…

The candidate’s vocal disdain for wind farms is another worry for developers, who’ve faced high costs and supply chain woes.

Posted May 9

Jennifer A Dlouhy

Bloomberg

Companies racing to build multibillion-dollar wind farms in U.S. waters are already contending with surging borrowing costs, supply chain woes and project pullbacks.

Now, they’ve got a new worry: Donald Trump.

The former president and…

Nothing self serving about an electric company championing a move of society to extraordinarily inefficient and costly electrification, huh?  CMP parent's Avangrid's vice chairman former Governor John Baldacci must be smiling when he's not counting his money.

CMP head…

The hilariously bad attempt at shoring up the green energy agenda cost Maine $35,000

Seamus Othot

May 8, 2024

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Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) announced the release of an independent study which claims that her renewable energy push has driven significant growth in the state’s economy.

The study, released Wednesday, cost taxpayers $35,000 according to the…

Another step along the way towards the dunderheaded "electrification" of society which the monied control freak interests wish to ram down our throats.

DOE unveils 10 potential ‘national interest’ transmission corridors where projects could be expedited

The proposed corridors, which total more than 3,500 miles across targeted regions, could unlock federal financing

Published May 8,…

The attainment of this "milestone" (really millstone) proves only one thing: our government's ill conceived use of the hard earned money it coerces from us will continue until people wake up. The more we pursue the pixie dust of "green", the bigger the hole we dig for ourselves.

The illusion of economic benefit is a perfect…

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Biden's EV mandate: a dictatorial attack on the American driver and the US grid

The grim cost of firming up solar and wind

EPA rule against power plants – bad for energy reliability and prices, bad for…

Translation: We will take your land if the wind companies need transmission.

L.D. 2087: Land for transmission lines

By Kate Cough

April 28, 2024

An Act to Protect Property Owners by Making Certain Changes to the Laws Governing the Use of Eminent Domain by Transmission and Distribution Utilities.

Lawmakers passed a bill that will limit the state’s ability to take land for…

Versant Power opposes a shift to whole-house electric heat pumps from those used in one or 2 rooms, saying affluent homeowners and developers will benefit.

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

April 24, 2024

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Versant Power is pushing back against a new approach to broaden the use of heat pumps, which already are a key part of Maine’s toolbox to cut greenhouse gas…

by Bruce Mohl, April 20, 2024, commonwealthbeacon.org

I would add to this article:

- Pros of wind power (basically none); Cons of wind power (many)

- The virtually complete lack of grid scaled battery systems and how long they would sustain a suicidal electricity system built on intermittent wind and solar (now and in the future)

- The stresses these same fools are planning for us on top of wind and solar "reliance", namely "electrification" and EV's

- The aside that most people do not want EV's beyond the small…

April 17, 2024

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

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A dozen House members reversed themselves from an April 9 vote that rejected changes in environmental rules, in order to allow an offshore wind terminal to be built.

The Maine House of Representatives on Wednesday backed legislation exempting sand dunes on Sears Island from environmental rules to authorize the state to grant a permit to…

When someone uses the word "planet" in a sentence, is it because they watched too much Star Trek or too much Al Gore?

"The petition delivered by a member of the Maine Labor Climate Council was signed by over 100 residents voicing support for wind power."…

April 15, 2024

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

The House rejected the measure last week and will now reconsider the Senate version, which would exempt sand dunes from environmental protection in a bid to advance Maine's drive to generate offshore wind.

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The Maine Senate on Monday night approved legislation providing a carve-out in environmental regulations that would allow construction of an…

By Steve Robinson

August 2, 2023

Several of Maine’s largest newspapers – formerly owned by Masthead Media Company – will now fall under the ownership of a nonprofit trust funded by left-wing billionaires George Soros, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, and a collection of like-minded progressives foundations and nonprofits.

The Portland Press Herald and its related daily papers were sold to the National Trust for Local News several months after former owner Reade Brower…