Long Islander's Blog – October 2021 Archive (11)

Maine EUT member Rep. Steven Foster: ENERGY FACTS

When one accounts for the facts that wind is intermittent and unreliable, grid-scale electricity storage is virtually non-existent, capacity payments for conventional generators are required, massive transmission expansion is required to add wind turbines, the effects on property values, the massive subsidies and the interest on the money borrowed to fund the subsidies, what is wind's real cost, i.e., the one that wind advocates don't want you to know?…

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Added by Long Islander on October 27, 2021 at 3:00pm — 16 Comments

Tucker Carlson on the wind power scam coming your way (10/22/21)

Tucker Carlson and his team travel across America to get to the bottom of the wind energy scam. He exposes the hidden costs of the green energy agenda as we investigate the death and destruction brought on by these monstrosities.

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/blown-away-the-people-vs-wind-power

Added by Long Islander on October 25, 2021 at 3:04pm — 3 Comments

Staggering $1.5 billion lithium deposit discovered near Newry

The find, one of the richest on Earth, could test Maine’s 2017 metallic mining laws, considered the strictest in the nation.

NEWRY — The richest known hard rock lithium deposit in the world lies a few miles northeast of the ski slopes of Sunday River and not far from Step Falls, where swimmers can wade in shallow pools formed by hundreds of feet of cascading granite ledge. 

Smaller deposits…

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Added by Long Islander on October 24, 2021 at 12:00pm — 8 Comments

Chris O'Neil: Don’t like the CMP corridor? Consider the alternatives

To supply the same amount of power as NECEC, it would take 2,500 wind turbines, 25 million solar panels or 24 new Wyman Dams.

When it comes to the New England Clean Energy Connect project, you’ve heard it all, right?

No. Sure, you’ve…

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Added by Long Islander on October 22, 2021 at 11:30am — 6 Comments

Bill Gates' idol Vaclav Smil: Living in the dark is the only road to net zero by 2050

Vaclav Smil is widely regarded as a big thinker on energy and other matters.

Net zero is ‘a daunting task’: energy expert

Ambitions to reach zero emissions by 2050 are unrealistic and the target will take much longer and be much more difficult than most people realise, said University of Manitoba’s Vaclav Smil, a top scientist and policy analyst, cautioning against expecting much from the upcoming international climate summit in…

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Added by Long Islander on October 21, 2021 at 1:00pm — 5 Comments

Senator Collins Secures Nearly $988K for Wind Turbine Technicians in Appropriations Bills

Senator, maybe some of these newly trained wind turbine technicians can work on the UMPI wind turbine you strongly applauded. Oh wait, it burned down and is no more, this after years of dreadful performance as we predicted.

Senator Collins Secures Nearly $265 Million for Maine in Appropriations Bills

106 of Senator Collins’ requests for projects across Maine were included in FY22 appropriations bill

Posted Mon, 10/18/2021

Northern Maine…

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Added by Long Islander on October 19, 2021 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

Maine is in danger of losing some of its best agricultural land to solar farms

by Julia Bayly

October 16, 2021

There is a finite number of acres in Maine that can produce crops and support agricultural farms. Only 13 percent of the state is suitable farmland, according to the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry.

In recent years, those acres have been targeted by solar farm developers. The most desirable land for large solar farms is at least 25 acres, flat, open to the sun, easily accessible by good roads and near existing…

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Added by Long Islander on October 17, 2021 at 7:00pm — 7 Comments

BDN Editorial Board: No on Question 1: The referendum is an overreach that could have far-reaching negative implications

Updated: 10/18/21

BDN Editorial Board: No on Question 1: The referendum is an overreach that could have far-reaching negative implications…

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Added by Long Islander on October 17, 2021 at 3:30pm — 5 Comments

Bloomberg: Global Energy Crisis Is the First of Many in the Clean-Power Era

How does an article like this not contain the word nuclear?…

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Added by Long Islander on October 9, 2021 at 5:23pm — 4 Comments

Robert Bryce: List Of 317 Wind Rejections Sierra Club Doesn’t Want You To See

A few weeks ago, I ran into a prominent employee of the Sierra Club who declared something to the effect of “we have to quit using coal, oil, and natural gas.” That, of course, is the official dogma of America’s “largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization.” The group says it is “…

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Added by Long Islander on October 5, 2021 at 12:30am — 7 Comments

John Droz, Jr: Media Balance Newsletter: October 4, 2021

Turbine Noise Nuisance Case Uncovers Wind Industry’s Culture of Lies & Deceit

New Documentary: Headwind21

Conservation group backs permanent moratorium on Great Lakes turbines

The List of Wind Energy Rejections the Sierra Club Doesn’t Want You to See

Wind turbine collapses hours before official launch

Click on the link below for much, much more.…

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Added by Long Islander on October 4, 2021 at 10:30am — 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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