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Gallup Poll on Effects of High Gas Prices

The nannies and schemers who have decided for us that we will all drive electric vehicles seem to have forgotten one important thing - us.

 

May 23, 2011

In U.S., High Gas Prices May Make Many Get Fuel-Efficient Cars

Roughly 7 in 10 Americans would not move or change jobs, no matter how high prices go

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Added by Long Islander on May 24, 2011 at 7:30am — No Comments

Jonathan Carter: The great green wind scam

May 22, 2011

 

The great green wind scam

Not only will large-scale wind power blight Maine, but it won't lower emissions or reduce our oil dependence.

By JONATHAN CARTER

 

Mountaintop industrial wind development in Maine is both an ecological disaster and economic boondoggle. The mountaintop wind developers, or as I like to call them, "the…

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Added by Long Islander on May 22, 2011 at 12:00pm — 3 Comments

Here Comes the Sun - Governor LePage's Weekly Radio Address (on WIND POWER)

At the end of his address, the Governor tells us to pray for sun. I for one will. In the meantime, in the speech below we have more sunlight on the wind industry in Maine than we have ever seen.
                                 "It feels like years since it's been here"

Weekly radio address…

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Added by Long Islander on May 21, 2011 at 9:57am — 2 Comments

Why the LinkedIn IPO Is Bad for Cleantech

Why the LinkedIn IPO Is Bad for Cleantech

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Added by Long Islander on May 20, 2011 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Public hearings set for Clifton referendum questions

Public hearings set for Clifton referendum questions

Posted May 17,…
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Added by Long Islander on May 18, 2011 at 10:50pm — No Comments

Mike DiCenso: Time for a UMPI wind reality check

GUEST COLUMN

Time for wind reality check

Posted May 17, 2011, at 8:39 p.m.…
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Added by Long Islander on May 17, 2011 at 9:07pm — 2 Comments

LePage Administration Proposes Maine Energy Policy Overhaul

 

Below, Jeremy Payne of the wind industry decries unpredictability as an enemy of his business. I say that a good business person will figure out a way to make money in the face of unpredictability -- these are not business people, rather these are rent seekers expecting guaranteed gargantuan gains on the backs of the little person, Joe Ratepayer and Jane Taxpayer.

 

Also, Phil…

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Added by Long Islander on May 17, 2011 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Two letters: Rent-seeking wind firms / Mount Waldo — is wind worth it? (Bangor Daily News)

 

Rent-seeking wind firms

In recent years politicians have spent billions on subsidies and grants to encourage the development of wind power. The result is that rent-seeking entrepreneurs have jumped on the wind power bandwagon to cash in the subsidies. One such firm is Eolian Renewable Energy.
Eolian’s business strategy: Find a small rural community with some terrain suitable for industrial wind…
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Added by Long Islander on May 15, 2011 at 8:18pm — No Comments

North of Ordinary, South of Openly

 

 

The two candles on this cake produce more power than the UMPI wind turbine has produced much of the time.

 

Today is the two year anniversary of the University of Maine's $2million wind turbine…

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Added by Long Islander on May 14, 2011 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

A Letter to the Legislature - Putting Maine's wind potential in proper perspective

The following letter went to every Maine legislator today - along with the following Excel file.

 

KW%20per%20Sq%20Mile.xls

 

*** Copies addressed to all Maine legislators via Multiple Emails ***

 
A lot of "biomass" got thrown around during the Baldacci era with…
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Added by Long Islander on May 13, 2011 at 8:15pm — 1 Comment

UMPI Wind Turbine Update News Clip - WAGM-TV 8

 

Watch the video: http://www.wagmtv.com/newssource8/story/2011-05-09-umpi-windmill-update

 

"After a strong first…

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Added by Long Islander on May 12, 2011 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Vinalhaven the Final Haven for Eagles

National agency questions how many birds die near Vinalhaven turbines

Posted May 11, 2011, at 8:10 p.m.
VINALHAVEN, Maine —…
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Added by Long Islander on May 11, 2011 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

The Wind Experience

The Wind Experience

According to the Global Wind Energy Council, the world now has 197 gigawatts of installed wind capacity with the largest amount in China (45 gigawatts), followed by the United States (40 gigawatts). Europe, led by Germany (27 gigawatts), has the…

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Added by Long Islander on May 10, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments

Something is Missing - from the conversation about energy

 

 

 

Idaho Power: What happens when the wind doesn't blow
May  7, 2011 by Idaho Power…
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Added by Long Islander on May 7, 2011 at 9:51am — 3 Comments

Steve Bennett: Freedom provides wind power lesson (Village Soup - Capital Weekly)

 Apr 28, 2011

 

Freedom provides wind power lesson



Small towns in the less affluent sections of Maine are being pounced upon by wind developers who know better than to try to place turbines in places like Cape Elizabeth. First Mars Hill, then Freedom, now other places like Winn, Oakfield, Roxbury and many other small and tax-starved towns, all confronted with the promise of big money in…

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Added by Long Islander on April 29, 2011 at 4:00pm — 2 Comments

Is it time to rename UMPI's wind turbine film?

The name of the film is Wind 101. With the turbine's capacity factor headed towards a miserable but not unexpected 10%, should it be renamed Wind 10.1?

 

http://www.umpi.edu/wind/wind-101

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Added by Long Islander on April 29, 2011 at 7:48am — No Comments

Sumner Lipman: Do we want to be green? (Village Soup/Capital Weekly)

 

Do we want to be green?

By Sumner Lipman | Apr 27, 2011…
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Bureau of Parks and Lands to Wind Developers: MAINE NOT FOR SALE

On December 28, 2010, Rob Gardiner, partner in Highland Wind with Angus King, on behalf of Highland Wind offered $787,000 to Maine government in a letter to LURC Chair Gwen Hilton and LURC Director Catherine Caroll. Nothing like making a massive offer of cash to the government agency that will determine the fate of one's 39 turbine industrial wind project, a veritable license to feast at the public trough on Joe Taxpayer's hard earned money.

 

This offer and a link to the…

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Added by Long Islander on April 23, 2011 at 10:00pm — 4 Comments

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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

******** 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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