Long Islander's Blog – December 2023 Archive (19)

By RJ Heller

December 28, 2023

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Washington County is closer to seeing 30 wind turbines erected by Apex Clean Energy. The Virginia based company through its subsidiary Downeast Wind began the process in 2015.

According to Apex Senior Community Relations Manager Natasha Montague, the construction phase is under way. The company received state approval in 2022 after an examination of its permit application by Maine Department of…

I would love to have someone explain how they plan to charge their electric vehicles when the power is out.

Here are some questions that need to be answered before this is our only choice:

• Our electric grid cannot handle the need for power now, so how could it possibly supply it for everyone’s EV?

• What are these batteries made of and how do we properly dispose of them?

• If the battery life is just five-to-seven years, and they are expensive, how can retirees replace…

By Seamus Othot

December 23, 2023

Updated:December 23, 2023

The Maine Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) has been forced to delay development of the Aroostook Renewable Energy Gateway because the developers cannot work for the agreed upon price.

“LS Power made clear in its submission that it can no longer hold to its price, though nowhere in its brief or proposed transmission agreement did LS power indicate what the new price would need to be,” said…

The central Maine opposition, including anyone working on ordinances, would be wise not to drop their guard. Like rust, Paul Gaynor & Co never sleeps.

Maine Public Utilities Commission nixes Aroostook powerline

Maine Public | By Murray Carpenter

Published December 21, 2023 at 1:09 PM EST

The massive storm that tore through the state has forced a Maine environmental board to postpone a Thursday meeting that was to consider electric vehicle sales mandates.

A state environmental board has postponed a meeting scheduled for Thursday to consider electric vehicle sales mandates for Maine.

The Board of Environmental Protection did not set a new date. It called off the meeting because of the statewide storm Monday that left hundreds of thousands of…

Somewhere in Maine is a Tesla owner who had to go somewhere this morning but couldn't when the power outage prevented charging.

Perhaps he was fortunate and was able to use a gas powered generator to get a home charge. I wonder if a PORTABLE generator would have worked. I doubt it. So perhaps another possible expense entailed in EV ownership is having the right kind of permanent generator (maybe $15,000 or so???) installed in one's home.

The good news is that if…

Please click on the following link to read the following stories and much, much more:

https://election-integrity.info/Newsletter/2023/Media_Balance_Newsletter-12-18-23.pdf

*** X-Raying the Reality and Origin of a Hollow Phrase: 'Energy Transition'

*** The Black Lie at the Heart of Net Zero Energy Fantasies

*** The Crippling…

When will people wake up to the absurdity of Maine's carbon goals and recognize such is simply green-speak for pick pocketing? When one starts from a position that such bogus goals are needed and should be attained, they are setting themselves up for disaster.

Opinion: Aroostook Renewable Gateway suffers from a lack of planning

Maine shouldn't fall into the trap of above-ground high-impact transmission…

COP 28 is the Codification of Elite Hate, and Lies all the Way Down.

elizabeth nickson

Dec 16, 2023

I am on RFKJr’s campaign mailing list, probably through Children’s Health Defence and they asked me for money, and I said sure, just as soon as he fixes the catastrophe he caused in the province where I live. 

Got a message back!

It read, “Elizabeth, I am sure Robert would fix whatever harm he caused, can you explain?”

No problem, I said.

1.…

Seriously, who do these people think they are?

Letter to the editor: EV agenda driven by a few

A seven-member board shouldn't have the power to dictate our vehicle choices

I am writing because it has come to my attention that the seven-person Maine Board of Environmental Protection has the power to dictate the number of future electric vehicles…

by Billy Kobin

December 11, 2023

AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Board of Environmental Protection is set to vote just before Christmas on a controversial rule aimed at phasing out new sales of gas-powered cars and boosting electric vehicle adoption.

The Dec. 21 vote will come after months of passionate debate and feedback on the plan the Natural Resources Council of Maine and several allies proposed this summer through a little-known provision in…

December 7, 2023

BY DOUG MULVEY

SPECIAL TO THE PRESS HERALD

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Doug Mulvey is a vice president with Missouri-based LS Power Development. He has more than 27 years of project development experience across the U.S. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and master’s degree in environmental engineering from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He also holds a master’s in business administration from the University…

The actual headline is below. Perhaps it's correct to characterize offshore wind as young (in the U.S.) but not the wind industry. The Production Tax Credit (PTC), which constitutes a sizable part of the corporate welfare upon which the wind industry is built, came about in the early 1990's. Based on that, wind is anything but a young industry. The PTC when introduced, was defined as a TEMPORARY giveaway. However, whenever it has been set to expire, the wind developers have gotten down…

December 4, 2023

The proposed Aroostook Renewable Gateway would connect power from a wind farm to the New England grid, but the project has faced many obstacles as its seeks regulatory approval.

BY STEPHEN SINGER STAFF WRITER

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Versant Power customers in northern Maine will not benefit from a transmission line connecting wind power generated there to the New England…

December 1, 2023

BY JAKE FREUDBERG MORNING SENTINEL

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MOSCOW — Residents at a special town meeting Thursday voted to prohibit commercial solar farms, opting to go a step further than many other towns in central Maine when it comes to restricting the development of large solar projects.

Moscow joins a growing list of Maine municipalities that have passed measures limiting or temporarily prohibiting solar farms. But it is unclear if…

December 3, 2023

Commentary: PUC will do a rigorous job with the public’s help

BY PHILIP L. BARTLETT, PATRICK SCULLY AND CAROLYN GILBERT

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.......To help reach Maine’s climate goals, we conducted two large-scale renewable energy procurements for more than 950 megawatts of power; approved new electric rate designs to support…

December 1, 2023

by Bill Trotter

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..........Downeast Wind, a project of Virginia-based Apex Clean Energy, has hired Woolwich-based Reed & Reed as the general contractor of the wind power project, which will include 30 turbine sites spread out among various locations in the town of Columbia and in townships 18 and 24 in the state’s Unorganized Territory.

Twenty of the turbines, each…

When the powerful agree on massive big $$$$$$  projects behind closed doors and begin their efforts to ram these projects down the public's throat, it is our experience from wind projects that most barriers to final approval somehow are eventually overcome by the developer.

However, along the way, the developer and his…