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The immensely high government subsidy given to industrial wind

From: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy, 2007

URL: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/servicerpt/subsidy2/pdf/execsum.pdf

Full report also provided as PDF attachment - please click on the link below, entitled "execsum.pdf"…

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Added by Whetstone_Willy on July 6, 2010 at 6:58am — No Comments

Do you know the meaning of the FIFTH of July?

Added by Whetstone_Willy on July 5, 2010 at 1:15pm — No Comments

Governor Baldacci's Three Year Long Job Interview

Bangor Daily News - January 2, 2010

"Asked about his plans after leaving office next January, Baldacci said he hopes to do some teaching — potentially at the University of Maine — but that he also plans to stay involved in energy issues, perhaps in an advisory capacity. “It’s one [issue] that I am going to continue…

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Added by Whetstone_Willy on April 22, 2010 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

Hey Maine Sierra Club - Time to Update Your Website?

Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club and Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association at the Green Inaugural Ball

The following is from the website of the Maine chapter of the Sierra Club:…

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Added by Whetstone_Willy on March 21, 2010 at 6:30pm — 3 Comments

Congratulations Maine - You Are the Saudia Arabia of Wind!

C'mon Governor and c'mon Angus, how can you look the people of Maine who trusted you straight in the eye and tell them that they are living in the Saudi Arabia of Wind, when you know that this same line is being told to residents of at least 14 other states?

Come on lines like this appeal to the greed in people in hopes that they drop their guard and suspend the use of common sense. You see the same thing in those emails from Nigeria that tell you they have found millions owed to you…

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Added by Whetstone_Willy on March 21, 2010 at 12:31pm — 7 Comments

Peaks Island Slated for Misguided Self-Inflicted Wind Turbine Problems?

I just came across the website for Wind Power on Peaks Island.

http://www.greenerpeaks.org/windpower

It looks as though some well intentioned folks are at the point in the painful learning curve where wind power can do no wrong. At the same time, we also know that the Community Wind grifters are sniffing everywhere they can in this state to rape the land for subsidies…

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Added by Whetstone_Willy on March 7, 2010 at 7:00pm — 5 Comments

Any of this going on in Maine? - Some Choice Excerpts from "Wind Energy's Ghosts"

  • European wind developers are fleeing the EU's expiring wind subsidies, shuttering factories, laying off workers, and leaving billions of Euros of sovereign debt and a continent-wide financial crisis in their wake. But their game is not over. Already they are tapping a new vein of lucre from the taxpayers and ratepayers of the United States.
  • Thousands of abandoned wind turbines littered the…
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Added by Whetstone_Willy on February 15, 2010 at 11:00am — 8 Comments

Anagrams for Maine's Wind Power Pushers

I found the following anagrams using the Anagram Generator at: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/

They say people sometimes look like their dogs. Hmm, maybe their anagrams as well?

Kurt Adams

Murks Data

Brownie Carson

No Carbon Wiser

Dylan Voorhees

Oh Sly…

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Added by Whetstone_Willy on February 13, 2010 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Wind Power - People Talk the Talk but Don't Walk the Walk Because it Costs a Fortune

Many talk about loving "green" energy. But when it comes to paying for it, they don't necessarily walk the walk. In Massachusetts, which likes to boast that it is one of the "greenest" states in the nation, less than 1% of people are willing to pay more for "green" energy. This was in the Boston Globe on January 20 and comes from the CEO of one of Massachusetts' largest utilities, NStar. Please see:…



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Added by Whetstone_Willy on January 22, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

 

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 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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