Long Islander's Blog – November 2015 Archive (12)

The lab features a 16-foot-deep wave pool with a rotating wind machine. It’s meant to test 1:50 scale models against waves up to 2½ feet, or 125 feet when scaled up, and the scale equivalent of hurricane-force winds......Additional funding came from the U.S. Economic Development Administration, National Science Foundation, Maine Technology Institute and a $5 million voter-approved bond.…

And be sure to see the following link. Bookmark it, read it and read it again. Big picture: Over PUC staff objections, the Maine PUC approved the $1.4 Billion CMP Upgrade which despite BS published about it in the Maine press was one thing and one thing only - a 100% ratepayer funded gift to the wind industry so they could collect their subsidies and sell their REC's while destroying Maine. Kurt Adams was PUC chairman who took over $1 million in stock options from First Wind and then jumped…

FERC’s approval issued Monday would allow Quantum to transfer its interest to Passadumkeag Wind Holdings LLC, which would either be wholly owned by SunEdison or in which SunEdison would own all of the voting securities. In the second arrangement, a subsidiary of…

We are being treated like serfs by Wall Street white collar criminals and their paid off public officials and environmental groups destroying Maine. Please forward this link via email and Facebook to everyone you know in an unorganized territory today. There is not a minute to waste. It is Paul Revere time - spread the word.

In 2008, many rural Mainers found their communities abruptly rezoned for industrial wind development without their…

DISGUSTING: 171 Pages of Former Senate President Justin Alfond's Emails to and from the Maine Wind Industry

The following links will take you to 171 pages of emails sent back and forth between then Senate President Justin Alfond and the…

The pitch is that life for rural communities just isn’t complete without a fleet of blade-chucking, pyrotechnic, sonic-torture devices. And that country folks’ currently miserable, downtrodden lives can only improve with the addition of a few hundred whirling, bat-chomping, bird slicing wonders.

Read the rest here:…

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The trail of corruption starts in 2004 with the Massachusetts state legislature and former Governor Deval Patrick also known as “Sally Reynolds” to wind turbine contractors......The former author of the “Green Communities Act” Massachusetts Speaker of the House Sal DiMasi sits in an undisclosed federal prison serving an eight year sentence for corruption........It should be noted the news media in Massachusetts has…

The NECBC’s annual Energy Trade & Technology Conference is one of the major annual North American energy events. The 2015 Conference will be held November 12-13, 2015 at the Seaport Hotel in Boston, MA. This annual meeting brings together over 200 leading industry and government leaders to assess opportunities and…

This is another example of how the pro-wind side has inserted itself in key places such as "environmental groups". Yesterday we saw how 50% of the Maine Trust for Public Lands is comprised of current or former First Wind/SunEdison employees including a senator's…

When the wind industry moves into a state it stacks the deck in its favor as best it can. Some of the groups it invariably tries to win over, whatever the costs, are government officials and environmental groups.

If it can, it may attempt to become part of the very environmental groups it will later go to for seals of approval of its earth scarring, wildlife killing, health damaging and citizen rights crushing wind projects.

It would appear that at least two current…

It's not very hard to start seeing the connections between Enron Wind (in Maine) and Kenetech and then Governor Angus King who may have been protecting Kenetech - in the 1990's. Their whole master plan has been long in the making.

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What’s phony is: corporations bureaucrats guys with hard hats bulldozers earth movers tree pulverizers dynamite to blow up ridgelines lawyers guys with badges public meetings town boards public service commissions—and all that. Bogus, all. Inventions, all. Diversions from truth and all that really matters.…