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by Lori Valigra

September 25, 2023

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Doug Mulvey and his company, LS Power, wanted to minimize the risk of their multi-billion-dollar bid for a 160-mile transmission line that would bring wind power through Aroostook County and onto the New England grid.

So they asked the Maine Legislature in March to approve the project, and by June they received it. The approval was required…

By Nathan Worcester

9/21/2023

Nathan Worcester covers national politics for The Epoch Times and has also focused on energy and the environment. Nathan has written about everything from fusion energy and ESG to Biden's classified documents and international conservative politics. He lives and works in Chicago.

Kerry's pro-nuclear remarks come as climate-related diplomacy and other climate-themed events overtake New…

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule it.”

    - H.L. Mencken

Fred Fastiggi | September 19, 2023

Offshore wind is fraught with risks both known and unknown. This is not the time to bet the ranch

Fred Fastiggi

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H.L. Mencken once said, “There is always an easy solution to every problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.” He could…

By Michael Bates - September 18, 2023 - nawindpower.com ~~

A group of U.S. governors is calling on the Biden administration to help ease the “extraordinary economic challenges” that have combined to threaten not only future offshore wind development, but also the number of projects that are already under way.

In a letter submitted to the White House, the governors of Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island say “inflationary pressures,…

By Steve Robinson

September 18, 2023 Updated:September 19, 2023

The sole study purporting to show that a massive $4.9 billion Aroostook County wind power project will benefit Maine ratepayers was paid for by the developers of that project and conducted by the former employer of Maine Public Utilities Commissioner Carolyn “Carrie” Gilbert.

In June, Daymark Energy Advisors, a Worcester,…

by Steve Robinson September 14, 2023

"The Legislature and the MPUC have already selected, approved, and endorsed the project and its developers — all with only a guess as to whether it will raise electricity costs in Maine."

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When the 170-turbine 1,000 megawatt King Pine Wind Farm in Aroostook County becomes operational near the end of the decade, the majority of…

By James Varney

September 12, 2023

By James Varney, RealClearInvestigations

September 12, 2023

This is beyond absurd on so many levels.

Dan Neumann September 12, 2023

Not all renewable energy corridors are the same, says Matt Cannon, the state conservation and energy director for Sierra Club Maine, and environmental groups are standing firmly behind the planned Aroostook Renewable Gateway…

Please read the following articles and many, many more at https://election-integrity.info/Newsletter/2023/Media_Balance_Newsletter-9-11-23.pdf

*** America’s Wind-Turbine Revolution Is Broken

The Danger of the ‘Smart’ Car

*** New Wind Energy Costs Blow the Doors Off Projections

Support for offshore wind sinks as costs soar

*** Electricity from wind…

“Rhode Island is supposed to be the Ocean State, not the Windmill State.”

By Josh Christenson | Published Sep. 5, 2023

A plan backed by the Biden administration to OK a string of wind farms off Rhode Island has prompted every member of a fishing regulatory board in the state to resign.

The entire Rhode Island Fisherman’s Advisory Board quit en masse Friday to protest the 84-turbine Sunrise Wind project after the state’s Coastal Resources Management Council…

This is just the cost of wind generated electricity. It doesn't address the many other costs. Wind power doesn't happen if so called representatives, regulators, environmental groups and media actually serve the people. Follow the money to the individuals who's pockets are being lined at everyone else's expense

By Mark Harrington | September 4, 2023 | newsday.com

Proposals could increase wind energy costs 27% to…

By Jonathan Lesser

September 2, 2023

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.............In Massachusetts, Avangrid, the developer of the 1,200 MW Commonwealth Wind project paid $48 million to get out of its existing contract to sell power to ratepayers. 

That way, the company can rebid the project next year at an even higher price. 

Close by, the developers of the 1,200 MW SouthCoast Wind Project off Martha’s Vineyard will pay about $60 million to exit their existing…

Sep 1, 2023

BY DONNA M. PERRY SUN JOURNAL

JAY — Town officials are asking Maine’s congressional delegation to look into the delay by ISO New England in approving a request to interconnect four hydroelectric plants in Jay, Livermore and Livermore Falls in order to sell electricity to the New England power grid.

ISO New England is an “independent, not-for-profit corporation responsible for keeping…

This nightmarish intrusion of a monster power line is only "necessary" in order to accommodate the former First Wind crew's totally unnecessary King Pine wind project that, beyond simply being unnecessary is just plain wrong on numerous levels. Take a step back and realize that the government supposedly representing the people is prepared to use totalitarian eminent domain to provide this monstrosity to the insider hucksters set to make countless millions on the useless wind project. Without…

News media took money from big wind corporations while dismissing their links to increasing whale deaths

Increased boat traffic and high-decibel sonar mapping of the ocean floor by the wind energy industry are behind the rising deaths of whales and other cetaceans off the East Coast over the last six years and could make the North Atlantic Right whale extinct, according to researchers featured in a new documentary,…

One lie begets other lies. Here, the original lie is Maine's misguided rush to wind power such as evidenced in the state's expedited wind law which opened the gates for wind developers to tun roughshod over the state. If that insanity which started some 15 years ago was the crime, these transmission lines are the getaway car. For all the hucksters' claims about providing inexpensive electricity and saving the planet, the reality is that these wind developers are not exploiting the wind…

The good folks in central Maine are still wrongheadedly saying they recognize a need for "clean energy" in Maine. With all due respect, it sounds as though they are perilously early in the learning curve and would be wise to get more informed ASAP.

8/23/23

Letter: "Our ‘backyards’ should not be shared without our permission"

Carole L. Getchell lives with her husband in…

How to Win a Local Political Fight - Part 1

Citizens Can Win (and Have Won) by Playing their Cards Right

John Droz jr.

Aug 24, 2023

Citizens are often faced with contentious fights about local issues — ranging from whether their community should host an industrial wind facility, to whether their community should host undocumented immigrants.

Even though many of these matters…

By Bryan Jung

8/25/2023

BlackRock's push for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) in corporate boardrooms is starting to falter due to popular opposition against it nationwide.

Supporters of ESG have been pressuring corporations to incorporate climate change-related and progressive ideology into investment…