Monique Aniel Thurston's Blog (176)

Vermont : SunCommon parent files for bankruptcy by Steve Thurston

https://vermontdailychronicle.com/suncommon-parent-company-files-for-bankruptcy/

Word of iSun’s bankruptcy filing is sad news for their employees whose jobs are in jeopardy.  But the blame lies entirely with the Democrat/Progressive majority in the Vermont…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on June 9, 2024 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

WHEN DESPERATE.... USE THE SAUL ALINSKY PLAYBOOK...AND HOPE IT WORKS ?

"When Representative Laura Sibilia, the reporter of S.5 to the full House from the Environment and Energy Committee, rose from her seat on April 20 to explain the bill, she made the following blockbuster admission: 

“We have heard folks say that stopping all of Vermont’s emission would do nothing to change the weather patterns that we are seeing with climate change.  With apologies to my environmental friends, I mostly agree.  If Vermont cannot stop climate change, then why bother…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on May 2, 2023 at 12:37pm — 4 Comments

Here is how the BDN edited Dudley Gray letter to editor !

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER BUT KNOWLEDGE OF THE MEDIA GIVES US A BETTER WAY TO FIGHT POWER !  

Monique Thurston 

From Dudley Gray :

"The BDN mistakenly printed my piece on 03/11 and 03/13 and edited it as follows:

MY Title- "more electricity price Pain"

BDN Title  Alternatives failed us

Para 1. I wrote-"100's of thousands of solar panels and…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on March 16, 2023 at 10:11am — 2 Comments

Rural America fighting against wind power !

Positive News !

Rural America fighting against wind power !!!

Robert Bryce .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EDvpw2G0AM

Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on November 12, 2022 at 7:02pm — No Comments

When wind turbines caused sleep deprivation, key lawmakers sided with Big Wind

Many Vermont lawmakers – including some now holding powerful positions on energy committees – have ignored the physical and financial suffering created by industrial wind turbines and their backers, the ratepayer-subsidized renewable power industry. 

I was there. I saw it happen. 

In  March 2016, I…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on October 28, 2022 at 3:18pm — 3 Comments

Subsidized fortunes, sketchy details plague Vermont plan for 90% renewable power

Are the chickens finally coming home to roost for Vermont energy policy drivers – especially the politicans facing re-election in less than two weeks?

For more than a decade, renewable policies have been promulgated by a revolving door of lobbyists becoming renewable entrepreneurs, lobbyists becoming politicians, and some politicians voting for policies satisfying their ideological inclinations without apparent regard to the effects of these policies on Vermont’s…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on October 26, 2022 at 8:00pm — 7 Comments

CALL TO ACTION ON THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT from Lisa Linowes

Dear Friends,
 
Reckless, self-serving lawmakers in Washington DC are about to pass the Inflation Reduction Act which makes wind and solar subsidies PERMANENT (PTC/ITC). 
 
This action is a profound slap at all of us who’ve worked to protect…
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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on August 12, 2022 at 10:08am — 1 Comment

Schumer-Manchin: A terror unleashed. By Lisa Linowes

"The environmental destruction that will be left by developers marching across the country carpeting our ridgelines and open lands with 600-foot spinning turbines, solar panels, substations, and miles of high voltage transmission is impossible to quantify. Habitats will be degraded and destroyed, viewsheds industrialized, and wildlife killed or displaced. Federal and state agencies will be hamstrung by new permitting rules – also part of Schumer-Manchin – that will impair their…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on August 5, 2022 at 5:23pm — 4 Comments

Today a monumental ideological victory in Vermont State House !

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…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on May 10, 2022 at 1:30pm — 11 Comments

The climate hyperbole is reaching cataclysmic proportions; here is what a Vermont lobbyist writes.

The article linked below was written by Ben Walsh who works for Vermont Public Interest Group (VPIRG), a powerful renewable lobby in Montpelier. 

Here is his introductory paragraph: "Leadership in the Vermont House and Senate, as well as the governor, have identified climate action as a key priority this year. They have recognized that Vermont has both a legal and moral obligation to cut climate pollution in an equitable way, and at a pace that recognizes the scale and severity…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on February 12, 2022 at 7:30pm — 17 Comments

Vermont leads the way in climate war. Russia, China and India do not follow !

"As a bedrock principle of state energy policy, Vermont law requires the Public Utility Commission to specify “strategies for reducing electric rates to the greatest extent possible in Vermont over the most immediate six-year period, for the next succeeding six-year…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on December 8, 2021 at 12:05pm — 5 Comments

Wind power is back in Western Maine !

Western Maine Renewables, LLC, Moscow

Applications for Natural Resources Protection Act and Site Location of Development Act Permits

Western Maine Renewables LLC is proposing 14 turbine, 58.8 MW windpower facility in the Town of Moscow. Maximum height for the proposed turbines is 591 feet. The applicant proposes collector lines, a substation, new roads, road upgrades, and an operations and maintenance building. The applications were accepted for processing on July 14,…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on November 21, 2021 at 4:30pm — 6 Comments

When insanity has disastrous consequences .

"Biden’s critics point to his increased energy regulation, shutting down the Keystone Pipeline and for months banning new drilling leases on federal lands. They also blame increased federal spending under the Biden administration, which has significantly increased inflation and, as a result, consumer prices for a range of goods and services.

The American Petroleum Institute said “ill-advised government decisions” are the main cause of the rising costs."

“Joe Biden…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on November 18, 2021 at 4:46pm — No Comments

'Climate plan is a Mack truck coming at Vermonters"

“I don’t think Vermonters understand the Mack truck that’s coming at them when you start matching up resources to priorities this plan is going to embody. I just don’t think they understand how this is going to impact their lives and what it’s going to cost,” she said.

June Tierney, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Public Service . …

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on October 21, 2021 at 5:06pm — 5 Comments

The Vermont Special Interest group VPIGR is EXPOSED and it is hurting ! MAINE CAN LEARN A LOT FROM THIS !

http://vtdigger.org/2016/05/22/keith-ballek-where-is-the-public-interest-in-vpirgs-lobbying/

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Keith Ballek, of Sheffield, who is chair of the Sheffield Planning Commission and the Sheffield Democratic Committee, a member of the Caledonia County State Committee and a delegate to the Vermont State Democratic…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on May 24, 2016 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

IBERDROLA AND THE FLEECING OF THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER

2.2 BILLION REASONS TO CARE....

This commentary is by Mitch Frankenberg, who serves on the Selectboard in West Rutland and is the author of the book “Twists, Turns, and Yellow Brick Roads: A Declaration of Independence, Empathy, and Self-Control.” 

The number 2.2…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on April 16, 2016 at 8:06pm — No Comments

THE SLOW DESCENT OF SUNEDISON

AND TAXPAYERS , FORCED AND UNWILLING STOCKHOLDERS WITHOUT ANY HOPE FOR REWARD EXCEPT TO "SAVE THE PLANET", UNABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN COMPANY DECISIONS, CAN ONLY SEE THEIR MONEY MISUSED DUE TO GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT MALPRACTICE. GRAND THEFT. 

The sad story of how the biggest solar company in the world fell to its knees

SunEdison, the biggest solar-energy manufacturing firm in the entire world, …

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on April 5, 2016 at 9:29am — 6 Comments

SHINING SOME LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE ON SOLAR POWER .

STEVE THURSTON: SHINING SOME LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF SOLAR

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on April 4, 2016 at 7:37pm — No Comments

THE GREEN ENERGY CATASTROPHE

Green Energy Catastrophe

MARCH 30, 2016
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By Paul Homewood

 

 

 

  A GOOD REVIEW OF THE LATEST…

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on April 4, 2016 at 11:42am — 7 Comments

BEWARE OF WHAT THE RENEWABLE INDUSTRY HAS IN MIND FOR THE USA AND THE WORLD .

A LONG BUT VERY INFORMATIVE REPORT OF WHAT THE DISCUSSIONS AT THE  PARIS CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE LAST DECEMBER HAVE PRODUCED .

DOUBLING RENEWABLE  WORLDWIDE BY 2030.

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on March 17, 2016 at 2:00pm — 3 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

******** 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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We have the facts on our side. We have the truth on our side. All we need now is YOU.

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

 -- Mahatma Gandhi

"It's not whether you get knocked down: it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi 

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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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