Long Islander's Blog – March 2023 Archive (19)

Federal Regulator Acknowledges Danger To Wildlife Caused By Offshore Wind Farms

EXCLUSIVE: Federal Regulator Acknowledges Danger To Wildlife Caused By Offshore Wind Farms

John Hugh DeMastri on March 26, 2023

The federally-chartered regulator responsible for managing fisheries in the oceans of New England acknowledged that offshore wind farms could pose a threat to the local marine wildlife, according to a letter…

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Added by Long Islander on March 28, 2023 at 1:51pm — No Comments

New Jersey’s $8,000-per-resident wind energy scheme won’t reduce climate change

The Daily Signal |Travis Fisher and Kevin Dayaratna| March 21, 2023

Offshore wind is unpopular with locals, and opponents made their voices heard at a public forum last week in Ocean City. Residents mentioned the recent increases in whale deaths; the potential harm to the tourism industry from destruction of historic viewsheds; and the lack of transparency from the state regulator, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. A local reporter summed up the meeting by saying,…

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Added by Long Islander on March 28, 2023 at 1:30pm — No Comments

John Droz, Jr: Media Balance Newsletter: March 27, 2023

John Droz, Jr: Media Balance Newsletter: March 27, 2023

Please click on the following link to read the following stories and much, much more:

https://election-integrity.info/Newsletter/2023/Media_Balance_Newsletter-3-27-23.pdf

Nebraska county sets 3 miles as distancing requirements for wind…

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Added by Long Islander on March 27, 2023 at 10:02am — No Comments

$100M biorefinery proposal at former Lincoln paper mill site advances with lease agreement

March 23, 2023

By Laurie Schreiber

The Lincoln Town Council voted to approve a 20-year lease between the town and Biofine Developments Northeast for a biofuels refinery on the site of the former Lincoln Pulp & Tissue Mill, now known as the Lincoln Technology Park.

Construction is expected to commence by July 2024, in the first phase of a long-term plan, according to a news release Wednesday.

The project is expected to require a private sector investment of…

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Added by Long Islander on March 24, 2023 at 12:38pm — 3 Comments

PPH - Pine Tree Amendment would enshrine a constitutional right to a clean environment

Supporters say it would give Mainers legal standing on issues such as PFAS and mining, but critics say it is too vague and would lead to endless litigation.

March 23, 2023

BY PENELOPE OVERTONSTAFF WRITER

State lawmakers are getting another chance to consider the Pine Tree Amendment, a bill that would give voters an opportunity to add the right to a clean and healthy environment to the Maine Constitution.

If approved, Maine would join seven other…

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Added by Long Islander on March 23, 2023 at 10:00am — 2 Comments

U.S. Rep Jared Golden shreds Biden admin for green energy hypocrisy

Rep. Golden now needs to realize that there are green propagandists masquerading as "environmental groups" a lot closer to home than the Monterey Aquarium in California. He also needs to understand there is nothing good about wind power - offshore or onshore. I doubt he will, or he already knows this but is on a short leash from the higher ups.

March 21, 2023

By Thomas Catenacci | Fox News

EXCLUSIVE: Democratic Maine Rep. Jared Golden blasted the Biden…

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Added by Long Islander on March 21, 2023 at 1:30pm — 4 Comments

American Towns Don’t Want To Be Big Cities’ ‘Green Energy’ Graveyards

John Droz, Jr: Media Balance Newsletter: March 13, 2023

Please click on the following link to read the following stories and much, much more:

https://election-integrity.info/Newsletter/2023/Media_Balance_Newsletter-3-13-23.pdf

 - American Towns Don’t Want To Be Big Cities’ ‘Green Energy’…

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Added by Long Islander on March 14, 2023 at 4:58pm — No Comments

Another solar farm in Maine has bumped into a grid capacity problem

This article comes from The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting which was founded by Naomi Schalit and John Christie in 2009.  Their website is here:

https://www.themainemonitor.org/our-history/

Solar farm hits grid capacity 

by Kate Cough | March 12, 2023

Another solar farm has bumped into a grid capacity problem —…

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Added by Long Islander on March 14, 2023 at 10:59am — 5 Comments

Costs of wind production tax credits to more than double

Christine McDaniel | Mar 8, 2023 | forbes.com |

"The Costs Of Wind Production Tax Credits Provided In The IRA"

Last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was widely greeted as a landmark federal effort on clean energy and climate change. The Congressional Budget Office’s herculean task of scoring this massive piece of legislation that zoomed through Congress in an omnibus spending package was no small feat. But more recent data indicate the subsidies are…

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Added by Long Islander on March 12, 2023 at 11:17pm — 2 Comments

Dudley Gray: So-called alternative energy has not delivered results for Maine

Since 2018 residential supply rates have more than doubled from 7.85 to 17.63 cents per kilowatt hour. During the same period many solar panels and wind turbines have been installed, supposedly to save Maine ratepayers costs and improve the environment. Neither has occurred. We can thank the Legislature for breaking up our two utilities at the behest of former Govs. King and Baldacci for the expedited wind law. Now Gov. Janet Mills wants to continue the damage with offshore wind. Instead of…

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Added by Long Islander on March 12, 2023 at 10:30pm — 3 Comments

Corinth becomes latest Maine town to consider solar development restrictions

EXCERPTS:

3/9/23

Corinth voters will decide whether the town should adopt a solar development moratorium and allow a medical cannabis store to open on Main Street during the annual town meeting later this month.

The temporary ban of commercial solar developments is designed to give the town 180 days — roughly 6 months — to draft rules and regulations for future commercial solar developments to protect residents’ quality of…

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Added by Long Islander on March 10, 2023 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Judge orders rewording of referendum question on electric utility

Maine Public | By Murray Carpenter

Published March 10, 2023 at 4:44 PM EST

Proponents of a referendum question to replace CMP and Versant with a nonprofit power company won a court victory over the wording of the question on Thursday

In drafting the referendum, Maine's Secretary of State described the proposed power company as “quasi-governmental." But several supporters challenged that description.…

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Added by Long Islander on March 10, 2023 at 4:30pm — 3 Comments

Maine woods could store more carbon at current harvest with 'climate smart' forestry, study finds

I'm not sure at all as to what to think about this article, so I'm just posting it without any real opinion.

That said, we have long thought that Maine's status as the most forested state, along with its relatively low population, dwarfed any effect on CO2 which the fraudulent wind industry claimed would result from wind power. This was detailed here, well over 10 years ago:…

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Added by Long Islander on March 8, 2023 at 10:00am — 4 Comments

How solar development incentives will cost Maine's poorest the most

Residents in the northern parts of the state stand to incur the highest costs.............. But if all 750 community solar farms under development in Maine come online by 2024, they are estimated to cost ratepayers more than $270 million per year, according to the Maine Office of the Public Advocate, which represents consumers. That’s more than $330 per year, on average, for customers of Versant Power and Central Maine…

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Added by Long Islander on March 7, 2023 at 10:00am — 4 Comments

Trump Speech: U.S. energy sales would have been 5x's Saudi Arabia & Russia's and we'd be paying off our debt

I watched the entire speech and believe that the energy section begins at about the 1 hour and 36 minute mark.

https://rumble.com/v2bt2v4-full-speech-president-trump-brings-down-the-house-at-cpac.html

Here are some highlights of the energy section and please note, energy is also referred to in other parts of the speech as well:

 - They want all electric cars…

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Added by Long Islander on March 5, 2023 at 11:48pm — 6 Comments

Letter: King Pine Aroostook County - Reduce light pollution from wind turbines

Better still - how about this wind "farm" be blocked altogether given it is bad for the environment, tourism, taxpayers and ratepayers.

March 2, 2023

Letter: Reduce light pollution from wind turbines…

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Added by Long Islander on March 4, 2023 at 12:15pm — 6 Comments

Shill Baby Shill - Typical Maine Wind Propaganda Enabling Theft From Ratepayers and Taxpayers

March 2, 2023

by Dana Connors

For nearly 30 years, I have had the privilege of serving as president of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce. I've worked with thousands of Maine businesses and thousands of local industry leaders to improve prosperity for all Maine people. Our common goals have been to strengthen and grow our economy, to build enthusiasm for Maine entrepreneurship and ingenuity, to collaborate and problem-solve in overcoming challenges and to create…

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Added by Long Islander on March 2, 2023 at 9:30pm — 13 Comments

Some Aroostook residents want more benefits from massive wind project

More benefits? That implies there already are benefits when any honest person who has observed wind power in Maine knows that there are none. Just one disaster after another. I guess if we consider the banks hosting offshore accounts and the corrupt politicians who store their bribery proceeds in those accounts....well they benefit, although hopefully they one day pay the price for their crimes.

What "benefit" could possibly compensate for the destruction of…

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Added by Long Islander on March 1, 2023 at 10:30am — 3 Comments

Maine Sierra Club member: Mills outlines bold energy vision in State of the Budget address

Where does one start? Answer: Grab the air sickness bag.

February 28, 2023

Let’s start using the vast, clean and free resources of wind and solar to provide our electricity while creating good jobs for Mainers.

BY DAVID VON SEGGERNSPECIAL TO THE PRESS HERALD

On Feb. 14, Gov. Mills gave the annual State of the Budget address. Among the many positive items in this address, the governor boldly stated: "I am announcing tonight…

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Added by Long Islander on March 1, 2023 at 10:00am — 3 Comments

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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

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(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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