Long Islander's Blog – April 2024 Archive (15)
L.D. 2087: Land for transmission lines (EMINENT DOMAIN)
Translation: We will take your land if the wind companies need transmission.
L.D. 2087: Land for transmission lines
By Kate Cough
April 28, 2024
An Act to Protect Property Owners by Making Certain Changes to the Laws Governing the Use of Eminent Domain by Transmission and Distribution Utilities.
Lawmakers passed a bill that will limit the state’s ability to take land for…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 29, 2024 at 7:30am — 1 Comment
Utility opposes new rules for heat pumps popular in Maine
Versant Power opposes a shift to whole-house electric heat pumps from those used in one or 2 rooms, saying affluent homeowners and developers will benefit.
Stephen Singer
Press Herald
April 24, 2024
EXCERPTS
Versant Power is pushing back against a new approach to broaden the use of heat pumps, which already are a key part of Maine’s toolbox to cut greenhouse gas…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 24, 2024 at 8:26am — 3 Comments
3 New York wind farms scrapped
by Bruce Mohl, April 20, 2024, commonwealthbeacon.org
New York pulled the plug Friday on three offshore wind projects that encountered pricing problems after GE canceled the development of a larger turbine that the developers had been counting on.
The decision is a setback for the US offshore wind industry and may have some cost…
Added by Long Islander on April 21, 2024 at 9:44am — 5 Comments
Maine joins regional efforts to secure $1 billion for clean energy projects
I would add to this article:
- Pros of wind power (basically none); Cons of wind power (many)
- The virtually complete lack of grid scaled battery systems and how long they would sustain a suicidal electricity system built on intermittent wind and solar (now and in the future)
- The stresses these same fools are planning for us on top of wind and solar "reliance", namely "electrification" and EV's
- The aside that most people do not want EV's beyond the small…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 20, 2024 at 9:30am — 2 Comments
Utility ratepayers kick in about $10,500 per EV
Could EVs Compete In A True Free Market?
Added by Long Islander on April 19, 2024 at 9:06pm — 2 Comments
Maine House backs environmental exemption to allow wind terminal on Sears Island
April 17, 2024
Stephen Singer
Press Herald
EXCERPTS
A dozen House members reversed themselves from an April 9 vote that rejected changes in environmental rules, in order to allow an offshore wind terminal to be built.
The Maine House of Representatives on Wednesday backed legislation exempting sand dunes on Sears Island from environmental rules to authorize the state to grant a permit to…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 19, 2024 at 12:00pm — 4 Comments
The Maine Labor Climate Council
When someone uses the word "planet" in a sentence, is it because they watched too much Star Trek or too much Al Gore?
"The petition delivered by a member of the Maine Labor Climate Council was signed by over 100 residents voicing support for wind power."…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 17, 2024 at 8:50am — 3 Comments
Maine Senate approves legislation to allow Sears Island offshore wind terminal
April 15, 2024
Stephen Singer
Press Herald
The House rejected the measure last week and will now reconsider the Senate version, which would exempt sand dunes from environmental protection in a bid to advance Maine's drive to generate offshore wind.
EXCERPTS
The Maine Senate on Monday night approved legislation providing a carve-out in environmental regulations that would allow construction of an…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 16, 2024 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments
George Soros, Pierre Omidyar Fund Org That Now Controls Most Maine Newspapers (from last year)
By Steve Robinson
August 2, 2023
Several of Maine’s largest newspapers – formerly owned by Masthead Media Company – will now fall under the ownership of a nonprofit trust funded by left-wing billionaires George Soros, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, and a collection of like-minded progressives foundations and nonprofits.
The Portland Press Herald and its related daily papers were sold to the National Trust for Local News several months after former owner Reade Brower…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 14, 2024 at 7:57pm — 1 Comment
PPH Editorial Board: Perfection is the enemy of our environment
April 14, 2024
Our View: Perfection is the enemy of our environment
The scuffle over permission for a wind energy facility on Sears Island offers a template for how not to take on climate change.
The Editorial Board
EXCERPTS
The defeat by the Maine House of Representatives of a bill designed to pave the way for a significant offshore wind energy…
Added by Long Islander on April 14, 2024 at 6:55pm — 4 Comments
Pre-apprenticeship program trains "new Mainers" for jobs in renewable energy
April 9, 2024
Stephen Singer
Press Herald
EXCERPTS
........The program, which is funded by a $679,921 grant from the Maine Department of Labor, supported by the Maine Governor’s Office, and offered in partnership with Portland Adult Education, connects immigrants, refugees and other “new Mainers” with classroom instruction on safety involving vehicles, ladders and electrical hazards.............
...............ReVision Energy, Portland…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 11, 2024 at 10:30pm — 3 Comments
Hannah Pingree - Some call this an award; others might call it evidence
April 10, 2024
Introducing GreenBiz's 2024 Climate Policy Heroes
The inaugural list of changemakers making tangible impacts on climate policy.
Hannah Pingree, developing Maine’s offshore wind power
Director of the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation & the Future, Pingree served as majority leader and then speaker of the House in the state…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 11, 2024 at 10:20am — 3 Comments
Maine House rejects Mills’ plan to construct offshore wind terminal on Sears Island
Stephen Singer
Press Herald
April 9, 2024
Excerpts
The state House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected legislation that would have authorized the state to build an offshore wind terminal on Sears Island, an initial step in Maine’s foray into the wind energy industry.
In a blow to Gov. Janet Mills, who …
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 9, 2024 at 4:30pm — 6 Comments
Brainwash the Kids Wind Industry
How much real information about renewable energy are the kids taught?
Maine teens compete to create turbines that produces the most wind power…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 8, 2024 at 11:00pm — 3 Comments
Michigan Nuke Plant to Re-Open As Maine Shuns Nuclear in Favor of Wind, Solar
By Seamus Othot
April 1, 2024
Despite the benefits of nuclear power, and despite Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ oft-repeated goal of getting Maine to 100 percent renewable energy, the Mills Administration and the Democrat-controlled legislature have shunned nuclear power.
Maine’s only nuclear power plant, the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, was shuttered after several attempts to ban nuclear power from the state via ballot initiative. At the time, the needed upgrades…
ContinueAdded by Long Islander on April 3, 2024 at 5:25pm — 2 Comments
Latest Blog Posts
- L.D. 2087: Land for transmission lines (EMINENT DOMAIN)
- Utility opposes new rules for heat pumps popular in Maine
- 3 New York wind farms scrapped
- Maine joins regional efforts to secure $1 billion for clean energy projects
- Utility ratepayers kick in about $10,500 per EV
- Maine House backs environmental exemption to allow wind terminal on Sears Island
- The Maine Labor Climate Council
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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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