We'll need more than just expanded tourism. People simply don't vacation enough for tourism alone to save Maine. However, we can certainly expand our tourism - there is plenty of potential for this. To do so, above all we must protect Maine's vaunted "quality of place", that which Governor Baldacci always talked up - before he started destroying it with industrial wind projects and transmission lines.

America’s forgotten towns: Can they…

There remains much to do in 2018. But the crony energies–those dependent on special government favor–are on notice that their time may be running short. Consumers and taxpayers come first in a free and prosperous commonwealth.

https://www.masterresource.org/trump-donald/energy-victories-2017-note/

Fulfilling yet another campaign promise, the Trump administration has eliminated “climate change” from its list of national security threats, preferring instead to “embrace energy dominance.”

Trump Administration Removes ‘Climate Change’ from List of National Security Threats

In his Rose Garden speech in which he announced the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate accord,…

“The powerful have rigged the economic…

The “pass through” operates like the chart shows: Instead of directly funding the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) or the Sierra Club, the Sea Change Foundation or the Hewlett Foundation contribute to the Energy Foundation. Abbreviations: ALA American Lung Association; UCS Union of Concerned Scientists.

Energy Foundation receives money from…

The…

One notable example of alarm-raising is the description of sea-level rise, one of the greatest climate concerns. The report ominously notes that while global sea level rose an average 0.05 inch a year during most of the 20th century, it has risen at about twice that rate since 1993. But it fails to mention that the rate fluctuated by comparable amounts several times during the 20th century. The same research papers the report cites show that…

Steyer also put a lot of money into…

As I predicted, my piece “400 Scientific Papers in 2017 say ‘Global Warming’ is a Myth”, is causing greenie heads to explode like watermelons struck by hollow-point bullets.

Here is an email I got shortly afterwards from a guy at the completely unbiased and apolitical (lol) fact-checking organization Snopes.…

But the big story in energy, internationally, is the projected peaking of Chinese coal production in 2020 before it starts falling away due to resource exhaustion. Chinese coal production of over four billion tons per annum is about four times the U.S. production level. Coal is the source of two thirds of power generation in China, about the same for chemical feedstocks and is the source of all the nitrogenous fertiliser they use. The energy content of Chinese coal production is equivalent…

But on issues of climate, energy, and digital policy, Germany should be 'moderating conflicts and avoiding escalation.'

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/10/the_german_manifesto_on_antiamericanism.html

One of the more pernicious side-effects of the enormous government subsidies for renewable energy, Conca found, is that they actually increase the cost of energy. This cost, however, is transferred from the energy consumer to the taxpayer, “and so goes unnoticed by most Americans,” he stated.…

The data on hurricanes is widely and…

The Trump administration plans to withdraw former President Barack Obama’s signature climate rule in the coming days, arguing that EPA overstepped its legal authority in calling for a shift away from coal power, according to a draft of the proposal obtained by POLITICO.

EPA has not determined whether it will replace the rule nor “if it will do so, when it will do so and what form that rule will take,” according to the…

The American Wind Energy Association said Perry’s proposal “would upend competitive markets that save consumers billions of dollars a year.”

“The best way to guarantee a resilient and reliable electric grid is through market-based compensation for performance, not guaranteed payments for some, based on a government-prescribed definition,”…

One researcher – from the alarmist side of the argument, not the skeptical one – has described the paper’s conclusion as “breathtaking” in its implications.

He’s right. The scientists who’ve written this paper aren’t climate skeptics. They’re longstanding warmists, implacable foes of climate skeptics, and they’re also actually the people responsible…