Maine Public | By Kevin Miller
Published June 9, 2023 at 6:44 AM EDT
A proposed transmission line connecting Aroostook County to the New England power grid has passed another hurdle at the State House.
The Maine Senate voted 24-9 on Thursday to give preliminary approval to a bill authorizing construction of a 1,200-megawatt transmission line. The $2 billion project would carry electricity from a…
Added by Long Islander on June 10, 2023 at 2:00pm — 7 Comments
Congratulations to Governor Scott who cares about his constituent's future and well- being !
Shame to those democratic legislators who voted to override the Governor's veto !
An immense bravo to democrats Nelson Brownell and Thomas Bock who courageously defied the pathological ideological drivel from the Vermont enviro/businesses/activists conglomerate who tried so desperately to sink their teeth in Vermont's backs .
"The Vermont House today…
ContinueAdded by Monique Aniel Thurston on May 10, 2022 at 1:30pm — 11 Comments
The following has been submitted to the Sun Journal for consideration on their opinion page. The details have been provided to several reporters over the past months but none of them have chosen to write about it.
Eileen Adams' story in the Sun Journal (Record Hill looking for federal guarantee on its loan - 2/22/11) about the Record Hill Wind federal loan guarantee application omitted some…
ContinueAdded by Steve Thurston on February 24, 2011 at 9:17am — 4 Comments
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A lobbyist for an industry…
Added by Long Islander on April 25, 2013 at 9:30am — 2 Comments
Rust never sleeps. Nor do the compromised, the greedy, the dishonest, the arrogant and the ignorant.
............... Aqua Ventus has been in contact with fishing interests this winter to brief them on the path and work schedule. It intentionally chose to work in March, despite the greater potential for bad weather, because there are no conflicts with recreational boaters and…
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Avangrid Vice Chairman John Baldacci -- what's your plan for when a wind turbine blaze starts on a remote mountaintop in Maine?
The fire started Saturday afternoon near an area where fire was seen coming from a wind turbine nearly 300 feet off the ground, according to officials and local media. The turbine is part of a wind farm…
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Mars Hill
Several years ago the wind industry pleaded "one last time" for an extension of the Production Tax Credit (PTC). This was to be the last extension of this perennially renewing "temporary" giveaway:
Under…
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Our friends at Protect Monhegan have until February 14th to provide comments against the University of Maine's Aqua Ventus project. Comments may be made at this link:
https://mpuc-cms.maine.gov/CQM.Public.WebUI/Comments/PublicComments.aspx?CaseNumber=2010-00235
On shore or off shore it is business as usual for the wind industry...no matter who the…
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Hallelujah! With a lot of help from our friends Steve and Monique Thurston, Republican Phil Scott, an anti wind candidate, was elected handily in Vermont! Congratulations all you Vermont woodchucks!
Added by Pineo Girl on November 12, 2016 at 11:34am — 3 Comments
https://medium.com/@jimwiegand/comments-on-icebreaker-6bb3bad6ff66#.mmb037f5r ; In these comments is the hideous truth about wind energy, this industry's research fraud and the environmental destruction being caused by wind energy. These comments were filed with Ohio.gov on 10/21 in response to the hundreds of 700 ft. turbines…
ContinueAdded by Jim Wiegand on October 27, 2016 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments
Maine is one of the states, cities, counties, etc that have joined the "Clean Power Plan". Here is a quote from NY State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
“The EPA’s Clean Power Plan is a critical step forward in responding to the threat of climate change. The rule is firmly grounded in science and the law,” states Schneiderman. “The rule incorporates successful strategies New York and other states have used to cut climate change pollution from power plants while maintaining…
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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on November 28, 2012 at 10:45am — 3 Comments
While U.S. Senate candidate Angus King was busy discussing the ethical benefits of selling his company, behind the scenes Independence Wind was becoming part of a congressional probe into inappropriate federal loan guarantees.Despite an increasingly tangled timeline, the former governor’s campaign maintains he had no knowledge of the probe.
Congressional investigators sent an official letter to…
ContinueAdded by Monique Aniel Thurston on March 27, 2012 at 8:39am — 4 Comments
In view of Angus King's intention to seek election to the US Senate, and in light of recent revelations about the lack of justification for the Federal Loan Guarantee that Record Hill Wind sought and was granted, I am reposting (1) the following blog post as well as (2) my comment to the DOE during the public comment period on the loan application, and (3) the relevant section of the report titled,…
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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".
Added by Long Islander on October 30, 2011 at 3:00am — 6 Comments
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An area destroyed for $26 a year. I guess that means about seven cents a day per owner, which if there were two people in every household might be 3.5 cents per day. Maine has been had. Thank you Governor Baldacci. Thank you NRCM.
Iconic shot of wind turbines on northern end of Rollins Mt. with Mt. Katahdin in the background. May…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on September 20, 2011 at 11:00pm — 4 Comments
Please click on the following PDF on First Wind - a complaint from a U.S. Congressman.
Massa_USRep_DNY__letter_to_Obama.pdf
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The attached document attempts to put NRCM's published CO2 information into proper perspective. We think it does just that and it's high time to change course. C'mon everybody, let's work together to fix Maine's problems.
NRCM_CO2_From_a_Different_Point_of_View.pdf
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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 - 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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