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Maine Sunday Telegram writes major article about "apparent" Maine PUC Conflicts of Interest

The major lead article happens to focus on water, but because it is really about "apparent" CONFLICTS, it is very relevant to the industrial wind power disgrace in our beloved state. …

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Added by Long Islander on September 1, 2013 at 12:30pm — 3 Comments

“We’re going to get rich off of these hicks”

'Chasing after the wind' a net loser

Posted: Thursday, August 29, 2013 5:30 pm

By Mary Kay Barton | …

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Added by Long Islander on August 29, 2013 at 10:30pm — 2 Comments

BDN: FIRST WIND's inability to refinance debt raises questions about health of renewable energy market

Gee, this company which started in Italy and which is now plundering Maine and…

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Added by Long Islander on August 27, 2013 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

CT’s energy plans will impact Maine

Letter: CT’s energy plans will impact Maine

Norwich, Conn. — Changes to Connecticut’s Renewable Portfolio mandate law requires 4 percent of the electricity load be met with long-term power purchase agreements for Class I renewables -- wind projects which would mostly be built in Maine.

Are you aware that these are not yet built or functional, that the wind companies -- some foreign…

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Added by Long Islander on August 26, 2013 at 2:33pm — 6 Comments

Bad News for Boston Plantation Owners...Good News for the Maine Woods

 Boston's First Wind and Emera pull Northeast Wind

 
First Wind and Emera have withdrawn a proposed $385 million debt package for the Northeast Wind portfolio. The sponsors struggled to attract commitments at ...…
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Added by Long Islander on August 23, 2013 at 1:30pm — 3 Comments

BDN - Scientist from Isleboro Calls Wind a Bill of Goods

Over the years, Jonathan Carter and I have had some widely differing opinions, but, this time, he has nailed it. First Wind and all the other alternative energy promoters have sold the people of Maine a bill of goods with a huge price tag.

Unless the plug is pulled — literally — we are facing exorbitant costs on energy, an ugly landscape, neighbors who lose health and happiness just because they live close to the turbines, and a severe loss of wildlife —…

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Added by Long Islander on August 22, 2013 at 4:43pm — No Comments

First Wind Propaganda in Bangor Daily News

http://bangordailynews.com/2013/08/20/business/100000-in-first-wind-funds-going-to-multiple-projects-in-hancock-county/

Added by Long Islander on August 21, 2013 at 10:04am — 2 Comments

BDN: Island Falls fundraiser focuses on fighting Oakfield wind project

Island Falls fundraiser focuses on fighting Oakfield wind project

By Jen Lynds, BDN Staff
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Added by Long Islander on August 19, 2013 at 12:00am — No Comments

A Message to First Wind and the State of Connecticut

Photo: In August of 2010, Angus King and Rob Gardiner of Independence Wind (Highland Wind, LLC) paid a visit to the residents of Highland. Their proposed project had encountered stiff opposition from the outset and the developers were doing their best to sell the Plantation on their wind energy facility. They offered a $6,000.00 per household grant for energy efficient measures. They told residents if Highland Wind’s project were built, their taxes would decrease by 80%. They promised 500kwh of ‘free’ electricity each month. They even told residents that if they used their grant monies to buy a Steffes heater, they could get their electricity directly from the wind facility. They weren’t sure of the logistics of running high tension wires from the project to individual homes, but that didn’t stop Angus King from saying this (excerpt from a video recording of the meeting): “And this would—oh, by the way—the technology will be such that when the wind…that the, that the power for these things will come directly from these windmills. It will be wind replacing oil.” But the ‘tangible benefit’ which raised brows the highest? The owners of Highland Wind LLC made this offer to the Agency which would be determining the fate of their multi-million dollar project: “For the Maine Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands: Highland Wind will provide $1,040,000 to the Maine Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands (BPL)over a twenty year period, as a “donation for land or natural resource conservation” pursuant to 35-A MRSA §3451 (1-C) (C). This land or natural resource conservation will be comprised of two Elements:…” <a href=

https://www.facebook.com/mainewind.concerns…

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Added by Long Islander on August 18, 2013 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Katahdin under attack: First Wind proposes 5 wind farms to make power for Connecticut

First Wind proposes 5 wind farms to make power for Connecticut

By Nick Sambides Jr., BDN Staff
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Added by Long Islander on August 17, 2013 at 9:00am — No Comments

BDN: First Wind willing to trash Maine

8/15/13

First Wind willing to trash Maine

By Jonathan Carter, Special to the BDN
Posted Aug. 15, 2013, at 12:57 p.m.

Last modified Aug. 15, 2013, at 6:17 p.m.
Read the piece in the BDN here:…
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Added by Long Islander on August 17, 2013 at 8:58am — No Comments

Directions to Saturday Night's Big Maine Wind Gathering to Save Island Falls

95 North to exit 276
Turn right into town...(or turn left if on I-95 Southbound) important 25 mph thru town
Stay on rt 2N
Continue 2 miles to Pond Rd
You will turn right shortly after May Mtn Gen'l Store (which is closed)…
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Added by Long Islander on August 14, 2013 at 4:02pm — 2 Comments

Big Maine Wind Gathering One Week From Today in Island Falls

Be there or be square :)

And if it's been awhile since you have seen Katahdin, then there's even more reason to make this part of your plans.

This is very important - Island Falls needs our…

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Added by Long Islander on August 10, 2013 at 10:00pm — No Comments

See attached list of wind projects (Many in Maine) - Ct. Mandate Aims to Ruin Maine

Please see the attached document (PDF and Word copies) listing listing responding wind projects.

Connecticut%20DEEP%20Renewable%20Procurement.doc

CT%20Mandate%20Aims%20to%20Ruin%20ME%20Mountains.pdf

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Added by Long Islander on August 8, 2013 at 11:17pm — 2 Comments

BDN - Bowers Jack Gagnon Letter

And also please read:

Maine environmental commissioner denies First Wind’s proposal for Bowers Mountain

http://bangordailynews.com/2013/08/06/business/maine-environmental-commissioner-denies-first-winds-proposal-for-bowers-mountain/

The answer is no

In April 2012,…

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Added by Long Islander on August 8, 2013 at 12:19pm — 5 Comments

PPH - N.H. utility to end renewable energy rate program

N.H. utility to end renewable energy rate program

Other utilities face similar situations if not enough customers sign up to pay higher rates to support renewable sources.

The company says it would take just 1 percent of its total customers signing up to keep the program alive, but after two years, only 148 customers were enrolled, or about .04 percent.

Continue reading here:…

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Added by Long Islander on July 29, 2013 at 5:18pm — 2 Comments

Potential rusting derelict wind turbines will be no wind advocate's fault

Frary: Adventurous Investments

EXCERPT:

Confident predictions about our energy future may be foolish, but I will make one prediction with absolute certainty. If those thousands of wind-power projects end as rusting derelicts no politician or advocate who supported them will suffer for it; no one will be held accountable. Politically motivated investments are the most risk-free ventures known to…

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Added by Long Islander on July 29, 2013 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

Grounds enough for Gov. Paul LePage's criticisms of our state-mandated wind-power industry

Ever-changing reality shows that LePage right when it comes to energy

by John Frary

John Frary, of Farmington, is a retired professor.

Excerpts:

These are grounds enough for Gov. Paul LePage's criticisms of our…

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Added by Long Islander on July 29, 2013 at 8:00am — No Comments

Rep. Larry Dunphy: Adding more large-scale hydro would lower bills

Another View: Adding more large-scale hydro would lower bills in Maine

The Press Herald's July 23 editorial, "Our View: Maine can have both hydro and wind power," criticizes the…

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Added by Long Islander on July 29, 2013 at 7:30am — 1 Comment

William Chapman: “Renewable” energy is the current buzzword for ruining our mountains and devastating the wildlife (BDN)

Restore mountaintops

It is interesting that after more than a century of damming our rivers for hydropower, we are now restoring these rivers. The removal of the Veazie dam is just one example of the efforts now being made so fish can once again swim upstream to spawn.

More than a century ago, when these dams were…

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Added by Long Islander on July 28, 2013 at 12:00am — 1 Comment

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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

******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********

(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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