Long Islander's Blog – June 2011 Archive (14)

Clyde MacDonald: Forest fires and wind turbines: The danger no one is talking about

 

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Forest fires and wind turbines: The danger no one is talking about

Posted June 29, 2011, at 6:19 p.m.…
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Added by Long Islander on June 30, 2011 at 8:13am — 1 Comment

Spain's Iberdrola Destroying at Least 60 Maine Osprey Nests with its Wind-Required Transmission

CMP to remove osprey nests

By Betty Adams badams@centralmaine.com

Staff Writer

 

LITCHFIELD -- Ospreys nesting atop tall utility poles in Litchfield have a nonfeathered champion in…

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Added by Long Islander on June 28, 2011 at 1:00am — 1 Comment

Governor LePage Warns Maine Must Get Away From "Feel-good" Energy Solutions

Gov. LePage Takes the Stage in Rockport
6/23/2011 2:25:00 PM …
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Added by Long Islander on June 23, 2011 at 4:33pm — No Comments

Earth First! vows to fight against industrial wind power

Earth First! vows to fight against industrial wind power

FARMINGTON — Earth First! activists vowed Tuesday to continue its opposition to locating wind turbines in Maine, according to a press release.

The statement follows the conviction of two of its associated members this…

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Added by Long Islander on June 23, 2011 at 4:19am — No Comments

Why Ethanol and Natural Gas Don’t Deserve Subsidies

Why Ethanol and Natural Gas Don’t Deserve Subsidies

Two of the energy subsidy debates in Washington focus on tax credits for the ethanol and natural gas industries. The growing opposition to the $6 billion…

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Added by Long Islander on June 22, 2011 at 2:42pm — No Comments

Governor LePage: Wind Turbines Damaging Maine's Quality of Life and Mountains"

June 18, 2011

Governor takes town hall meeting to Rockport

About 250 people turn out for his fifth Capitol for a Day event since his inauguration.

By Susan M. Cover …

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Added by Long Islander on June 20, 2011 at 12:07pm — No Comments

Rumford pro-wind ordinance defeated

Rumford wind ordinance defeated

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Added by Long Islander on June 16, 2011 at 2:44pm — 1 Comment

Spirited debate meets Appleton town meeting

 

Spirited debate meets Appleton town meeting

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Wind Turbines and Forest Fires by Clyde MacDonald

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Please click on the above link to read an excellent letter written by Clyde MacDonald and published in the current issue of Northern Logger.

 

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Added by Long Islander on June 13, 2011 at 4:30pm — 5 Comments

America Needs the Shale Revolution

America Needs the Shale Revolution

The drilling boom is the best U.S. energy news in generations and is crucial for reviving domestic manufacturing.…

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Added by Long Islander on June 13, 2011 at 2:23pm — 1 Comment

Robert Bryce: The Gas Is Greener

The Gas Is Greener





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Added by Long Islander on June 8, 2011 at 5:39pm — 1 Comment

Sumner overwhelmingly passes wind development moratorium

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Sumner overwhelmingly passes wind development moratorium

SUMNER — Voters passed a 180-day moratorium on industrial wind power development Monday by a vote of…

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Added by Long Islander on June 7, 2011 at 9:26am — No Comments

600 KW Wind Turbine at Newburyport, MA compared with 600 KW UMPI Turbine

There hasn't been much data reporting or electricity production going on at the UMPI wind turbine for the past few months. So we got a little restless and decided to visit the website of another 600 KW wind turbine - this one in Newburyport, MA.

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Added by Long Islander on June 6, 2011 at 11:00pm — 3 Comments

First comes the wind developer, then comes a lifetime of regret

6/3/11 First comes the wind developer, then comes the met tower, then comes a lifetime of regret

AN OPEN LETTER FROM A WISCONSIN FARMER WHO REGRETS SIGNING A WIND CONTRACT

 "By signing that contract, I signed…

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Added by Long Islander on June 6, 2011 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

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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

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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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