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Long Islander's Blog – July 2010 Archive (6)

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The Jig is Up

What the AWEA wants is the government to make us buy their wind electricity -- at high prices. And make us pay for massively expensive, unsightly and otherwise wholly unnecessary new transmission lines so that Mainers and southern New Englanders can but this expensive electricity. Skyrocketing electricity prices coming from statewide industrial turbine and transmission blight that is…

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Added by Long Islander on July 29, 2010 at 12:30pm — 3 Comments

CMP Bulking Up For Baldacci's Wind Sprawl Scam

When this project was sold in, it was largely about 40 year old power lines. Wind was very downplayed. Now they are telling the truth, almost as if to create the impression this is the reason that had been given all along, when in fact, the primary reason they gave was the lie about 40 year old power lines.
It's high time Mainers learned about this $1.4 billion "hidden" extra cost to wind power. We are BROKE.…
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Added by Long Islander on July 27, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

T. Boone Pickens Just Dropkicked The American Wind Industry

From the Business Insider:

T. Boone Pickens Just Dropkicked The American Wind Industry

Gus Lubin | Jul. 22, 2010, 3:09 PM…

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Added by Long Islander on July 25, 2010 at 5:30am — No Comments

The wind industry is not responding well to the latest news from the U.S. Senate

American Wind Energy CEO Denise Bode

Renewable Energy Industry Chafed About Senate Energy Bill

by Timothy B. Hurst on July 22, 2010

The wind industry is not responding well to today's news that the Senate is abandoning a comprehensive energy and climate bill and that the proposed plan…

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Added by Long Islander on July 23, 2010 at 3:30pm — 6 Comments

UMPI Quietly Revises Its Wind Turbine Goal

If you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes. And if you don't like your oft stated annual wind turbine goal of over 1,000,000 KWH, just change it to 700,000, which is exactly what UMPI has done on its website very quietly. In fact, the UMPI website has been WIPED CLEAN of any mention of the long stated primary goal of producing 1,000,000 KWH per year, which previously had been prominent on the site. Perhaps this simply reflects the reality that in Year One, ended 5/14/10, only…

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Added by Long Islander on July 20, 2010 at 1:30pm — 8 Comments

Tick, tock, tick, tock - why is the state ignoring the state university's findings? (Updated July 11)

Tick, tock, tick tock. The sad performance of the $2 million (and counting) UMPI industrial wind turbine continues.

Yesterday at 7:02 AM UMPI had achieved 690,542 KWH after 422 days. At 10:17 AM, 27 hours later, achievement stood at 690,588, a gain of only 46 KWH. At the same time, yesterday was a sweltering day and air conditioners drew plenty of power to keep us cool.

The capacity factor is a miserable…

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Added by Long Islander on July 11, 2010 at 10:30am — 8 Comments

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U.S. Sen Angus King

THE UNTOLD STORY OF RECORD HILL WIND

The Untold Story of Record Hill Wind, continued

 

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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