Note the board of Deepwater is populated by the likes of Paul Gaynor, Michael Alvarez and a collection of other First Wind/D.E. Shaw insiders.

http://dwwind.com/about/board-of-directors

Note that U.S. Congresswoman Chellie Pingree's husband incubated First Wind's half owner, D.E. Shaw.…

Here we have the father of the conservation movement's experience in Maine credited with his becoming the father of the conservation movement. Yet the very place he stayed at - Island Falls, has been slated for massive scarring from the Oakfield wind factory and transmission, just so an Enronesque group of slippery investment type insider-bribers can line their pockets while helping drain the U.S. Treasury....and shamelessly doing all of this defrauding under…

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The PTC turns a weak technology into a riskless bet, encouraging energy companies to spend their limited renewable budgets on subsidy farming rather than the best prospective solutions. The major players in the US wind industry will continue theirefforts of subsidy-seeking in the coming…

“Environmental groups are (also) fighting that idea, largely because they favor renewable energy over natural gas.”

So, green groups reject natural gas along with coal? And honestly expect renewable sources to replace them? How many Americans know that?

Please continue reading at:…

The Production Tax Credit for wind energy helps level the playing field and has been a key driver in wind industry job growth over the past decade.

http://bangordailynews.com/2014/12/04/opinion/friday-dec-5-2014-wind-tax-credit-national-park/

It would be interesting to know if the author, a Kate Rush, is the same Kate Rush who is…

 You will be able to view the proceedings via streaming. (links provided at following link)

https://fiwn.wordpress.com/2014/12/04/on-dec-9th-maine-law-court-to-hear-our-case-on-wind-turbine-noise-violations-live-streaming-available/

The official title of the Citizens Initiative (CI) is: 

AN ACT TO REPEAL AND AMEND SECTIONS OF THE EXPEDITED WIND ENERGY ACT TO CHANGE THE PERMITTING CRITERIA  FOR WIND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT

Please read Dan Remian's full piece at:

http://www.friendsofmainesmountains.org/

Astute reader comment: "The mandates for green energy have everything to do with skyrocketing electricity cost. When non-dispatchable energy sources grab market share at subsidized rates they force other generators to reduce annual capacity factors. This market disruption leads to operations at below their annual economic break-even points. These operators than close their operations leaving ISO-NE short of necessary Base Load capacity. The auction for capacity…

If It’s About the Owner, It’s Not News

by Al Diamon

NOTE: This is a story that all media in the state should be reporting on especially considering Maine Today Media is owned by 25% of our delegation in Washington, D.C. 

http://thebollard.com/2014/12/02/media-mutt-127/

Disclose or else (appears about 2/3's of the way down).

NOTE: When the taxpayer funded media adjusts its journalism for pay, we really need to think about pulling the plug on their funding - both from tax dollars and from personal contributions.

by Al Diamon…

Data from the top 10 wind power states show that from 2008-2013 electricity prices rose an average of 20.7 percent, which is seven-fold higher than the national average of merely 2.8 percent.

https://www.centralmaine.com/2014/11/29/wind-power-a-needless-extra-cost/

The lame duck Congress, legal eagles and pro-wind turkeys could very well give the wind industry addicts yet another fix and revive the Production Tax Credit (PTC), a 10 year gift to grifters and grafters coming out of the taxpayer pocket while simultaneously slamming ratepayers. Always minimized in the media as 2.3 cents per kWH, this translates to about a $1.5 Million taxpayer gift PER TURBINE to the slick investor crowd who think nothing of…

"Morgan...your letter is practically a carbon copy of the op-eds and public testimony given all across Maine by the wind industry and its most ardent supporters (which are usually organizations and/or contractors which have benefited from ‘tangible benefits’ in the form of donations to [or contracts with] those very same entities.)" …

First Wind's schtick was money, not progress

http://www.friendsofmainesmountains.org/fmm/2014/11/22/cashing-out-in-maine

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Ben Martin of Wallingford urged those who attended the meeting to take a more forceful approach than calling legislators or sending them emails to demand fundamental changes to the way energy companies are regulated in the state.

“If you want to really get their attention, we ought to do a sit-in at the Capitol,” Martin said,…

A Texas company that wants to build Maine’s largest industrial wind site in Aroostook County, just 30 miles from Baxter State Park, held a public meeting in Mars Hill. 

One gentleman with whom…

[Editor Note: This post by Robert Bradley Jr. from January 19th documents a fact that American Wind Energy Association might not want to know. If the American public understands why windpower is and must be government dependent to exist as an industry, and if the public knows about industrial wind's Enron roots, then the same public might just say: 'let's take our energy back'.]…

Keystone supporters in the Senate faced tough odds, and one lawmaker they hoped might be a “yes” — independent Sen. Angus King of Maine — voted against the project.

In a news release earlier Tuesday announcing he would vote against the bill, King said, “Congress is not — nor should it be — in the business of legislating the approval or disapproval of a construction project.”…

The Department of Energy had not responded to a request for comment when this story was published. “They don’t provide enough information about the interest rates to tell how much money the government is losing, but it’s got to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars,” Marron said in an interview.…