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Gov LePage: Demand more from your elected officials

The audio for this can be heard at http://www.maine.gov/governor/lepage/news/radio_addresses/index.shtml

Weekly Message

Governor Paul R. LePage

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on December 31, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments

First Wind - Why Don't We Investigate Their Dealings?

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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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on September 22, 2011 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Feeding The Masses On Unicorn Ribs

August 19, 2011

Feeding The Masses On Unicorn Ribs

 

Besides healing the planet and returning the rising seas to their natural beds, then-Senator Obama promised that his administration would create beautiful green…

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When an unelected elite, influenced by corrupt opportunists, gives orders that all must follow

 

 Sound familiar? Think cookie cutter government mandated renewables goals.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chinas-train-wreck/2011/04/21/AFqjRWRE_story.html

China’s train wreck…

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Water Issues Worry Americans Most, Global Warming Least

March 28, 2011

Water Issues Worry Americans Most, Global Warming Least

Environmental concerns are flat since 2010, but down over past decade

by Lydia Saad

PRINCETON, NJ -- With Earth Day about a month away, Americans tell Gallup they worry the most about several water-related risks and issues among nine major environmental issues. They worry least…

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Nancy O'Toole: Be scientists, not politicians

Be scientists, not politicians
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How can windmills be green?

Wind farms kill whales: blubber on the green movement's hands

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on March 17, 2011 at 2:42pm — No Comments

Global Warming Opportunists

Some of us believe in manmade global warming. Some of us don't. Others are not sure. Like religion and politics, it seems to have the potential to create divisions. That said, the following passage from today's Portland Press-Herald would seem to describe some of the motivations behind some of the wind machine that we are fighting  -- and slowly beating.

 

"Many alarmists are probably subjects of group-think, a well-known phenomenon. For others it's an opportunity…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on March 17, 2011 at 12:00am — No Comments

Qatar Investment Authority buys 6% of Central Maine Power parent Iberdola

 More taxpayer-funded Stimulus funds and ratepayer dollars to go to more and more foreign nations. Iberdola is of course based in Soain and they already have a huge deal with the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA), a government controlled energy holding company of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (See below)*

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on March 14, 2011 at 2:00pm — 4 Comments

Too-Green-To-Fail Energy Policies Flunk Achievement Tests

Too-Green-To-Fail Energy Policies Flunk Achievement Tests

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King-Baldacci-Fitts-Littell-Iberdola Pushers of Rocky Mountain High - Electricity Prices That Is

 

 

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_17306528

 

Xcel's work on plants, renewables keeps pushing electricity bills up in Colorado



By Mark Jaffe

The Denver…
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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on February 7, 2011 at 7:52pm — No Comments

Conflicts of interest or expertise? (Sun Journal)

www.kassociates.com_MarineRenewable_default.htm.pdf

PLEASE CLICK ON THE ABOVE LINK which up until recently appeared on the website of Kleinschmidt Associates.

 

http://www.sunjournal.com/state/story/980299

 

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Whitepaper: University of Maine Smart Grid Center

Maine%20Smart%20Grid%20Center%20-%20msg-whitepaper.pdf

 

The attached can be downloaded by clicking the file above or clicking the following link:

http://www.eece.maine.edu/grid/msg-whitepaper.pdf

 

 

Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on February 2, 2011 at 10:37am — 4 Comments

Austerity pulling plug on Europe's green subsidies

Austerity pulling plug on Europe's green subsidies

ERIC REGULY | Columnist profile | E-mail

 

LONDON— From Wednesday's Globe and Mail

Published Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 7:15PM EST

 

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Governor-elect Paul LePage Questions TransCanada Wind Exec on Wind's Electricity Price

Excerpted from the 12/1/10 Portland Press-Herald:

Policy makers should consider jobs, clean air and other benefits of wind, NRCM's Voorhees said, not just today’s price of electricity. If the cheapest possible power today was the only goal, he said, the only option would be to build coal-fired generators.

But the complexity of the issue was highlighted Tuesday, at a business forum in Augusta attended by LePage.

LePage asked Tom Patterson, a development…

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Energy Expert Gordon Weil Criticizes Augusta's Energy Policies

From a Gordon Weil editorial in the 11/20/10 Kennebec Journal:

http://www.kjonline.com/opinion/GORDON-L-WEIL-Strong-GOP-victory-in-Maine-means-change-but-its-not-a-blank-check-.html

"Augusta’s view has seemed to be paternalistic. For example, I have long argued against…

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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 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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