All Blog Posts Tagged 'Wind' (110)

Civil, but not Silent



When I began to research the topic of industrial wind on the mountaintops of Maine, it was with one purpose. Last…

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Added by Karen Bessey Pease on September 10, 2010 at 3:05pm — 2 Comments

¡No Pasarán! Coastal Mountains Land Trust gives Camden Hills wind turbines proposal the digital salute.

On August 24, 2010 Coastal Mountains Land Trust sent a letter to the Camden Selectboard concerning the proposal being floated about for a Ragged Mountain Text below or read a copy of letter here .
Not exactly a sternly worded letter - at first. But then it gets better and better.


COASTAL MOUNTAINS LAND…
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Added by Ron Huber on August 29, 2010 at 12:20am — No Comments

Energy Industry appeals for ARRA extension (6/30/10)

See the following article in this morning's News Wire:



http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100630005842&newsLang=en



It appears the markets have decided that wind scams are too risky for their capital so the Scammers expect taxpayers to continue fueling their gravy trains!



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Added by Gary Campbell on June 30, 2010 at 9:43am — 1 Comment

Tilting at Windmyths



Electrical energy produced by the wind.…

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Added by Karen Bessey Pease on June 22, 2010 at 4:30pm — 8 Comments

Tonite at 7pm Camden Selectboard hears from Ragged Mtn Wind wannabes

Tonight the Island institute's lucrative community wind subsidiary will be giving a dog and pony show to the Camden Maine selectboard about their plan to put windmills on Ragged Mountain. They are agenda item 3.


Listen to a 7 minute recording discussing this plan from May 20th, of (1) Des Fitzgerald of principle power and of the Camden Energy Committee describing what the 'Tute and he and various…
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Added by Ron Huber on June 15, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Does RICO apply to your UPC companies' wind developer?

  • Please note that 1,000 investigators in European countries are conducting a sweeping probe of carbon credits trading schemes. At least 25 have been arrested so far in this CO2 tax probe ongoing.…

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Added by Barbara Durkin on May 4, 2010 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

Save the Highland Mountains of Maine

Many of the members of the Citizens’ Task Force on Wind know of the existence of the Friends of the Highland Mountains. We formed as a group in November of 2009, after Angus King and Rob Gardiner came to Highland with their plan to place industrial wind turbines along each of Highland’s five mountains.…

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Added by Karen Bessey Pease on April 26, 2010 at 8:00pm — 7 Comments

We have the Power.

The electric industry should be running scared. Imagine when we wake up. The technology is there, but not the organizing capital. That is not quite true. I should say not the organizing will (yet) for we as ratepayers and taxpayers are the source of their capital.

We can be local and generate what we need. We would fund it, build it, distribute it, and collect user fees, just like the utilities. But this industry not only borrows to build it, leaving little capital for us,…

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Added by Mary Elen Marucci on March 30, 2010 at 2:43pm — 8 Comments

Metinic Island nightmare. Windies poised for major state waters-grab.

Like sea slugs under the dank surface of Maine'…
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Added by Ron Huber on February 24, 2010 at 4:00pm — 18 Comments

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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

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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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