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Coming up: Maine Wind Week

May 9-15th is official Maine Windthieves Week During the week there will be open houses, facility tours, and public events. Time for the Truth Force to emerge and dog the governor and… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on May 2, 2010 at 11:24pm — 1 Comment

FOIA'd MDEP and BPL post-legislature wind, wave and tidal energy documents for March 24th to April 9, 2010.

Used the Maine Freedom of Access Act to request documents from DEP and BPL from close of committee decision on LD 1810 to two weeks later when filed request.…


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Added by Ron Huber on April 29, 2010 at 7:20pm — No Comments

Cape Wind: Maine public radio news gets it righter than most

There but for the grace of ...I'm assured that decades of litigation shall be wreaked upon the hapless Cape Wind Wannabes that want to set their poles in the seafloor off Massachusetts.


Maine public radio's story is better coverage than…
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Added by Ron Huber on April 29, 2010 at 1:32am — 4 Comments

Nantucket Shoal wind sprawl plan approval- at least it's not in the Gulf of Maine.

So we'll get to watch and learn the actual impact of these machines on coastal tourism, fisheries, birds, bats, local weather, etc. Sounds cold to say "better there than here", but there it… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on April 28, 2010 at 1:02pm — 2 Comments

Wind at the university - hearts and minds at stake

We mustn't cede the universities to the wind thieves. Winning hearts and minds is the thing. We must occupy the moral high ground, as industry occupy the economic high ground. To do this, we need to think of "University" in a larger context. Such talkers as George Baker the scholar speaking at UM Fort Kent will draw from the engineering and business administration students, appealing to them with predictions of vast wealth and gigantic power devices spawning limitless clean electrical…
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Added by Ron Huber on April 21, 2010 at 4:58pm — No Comments

Bats win over windmills in federal court ESA case. Read case & analysis

This is an interesting case that readers may already be familiar with.Below are excerpts from pro-wind lawfirm's Stoel…

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Added by Ron Huber on April 9, 2010 at 12:26pm — 3 Comments

Veterans for wind? "Rally" Tuesday 2pm at U Maine Orono. Someone please speak truth to (wind)power!

This is a media release just sent me about the "Veterans for American Power Tour" visit to University of Maine Orono. Tuesday, March 30 @ 2:00 p.m. in the University of Maine Memorial Union, Woodbury Bumps Room.…


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Added by Ron Huber on March 29, 2010 at 8:19pm — 11 Comments

IT ISN'T FARMING. IT'S AN EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY.

The thing about Wind Farming: IT ISN'T FARMING.…

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Added by Ron Huber on March 28, 2010 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments

Rockland area newspaper on the Maine offshore wind bill

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Added by Ron Huber on March 26, 2010 at 2:06am — No Comments

LD 1810 Maine offshore wind bill. Final work session audio w/written summaries.

Short summaries of each audio section from Wednesday's final work session on LD 1810. Click on "Part" links for the audios themselves. All audios…
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Added by Ron Huber on March 24, 2010 at 6:30pm — 6 Comments

Legislator: LD 1810 nearshore wind bill "will be stripped down"

A legislator just emailed me saying:


"I have been talking to a number of committee members about 1810. What I hear is that the bill will be stripped down and at this…
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Added by Ron Huber on March 22, 2010 at 4:55pm — 9 Comments

Maine ocean windfarm bill work session to be continued on Tuesday afternoon, Today's 2 hour 5-sided slugfest left no clear winner yet.

Maine ocean windfarm bill LD 1810- Two hour five sided slugfest with no clear winner yet. Battle/worksession to be rejoined Tuesday 1pm before Utility and energy Committee. Incredible to hear the forces of Beauty & wild fish and wildlife giving the multibillion dollared industrial wind horde quite the walloping! Though the Wind empire is hammering back, hungry for… Continue

Added by Ron Huber on March 18, 2010 at 8:58pm — 4 Comments

Listen NOW to Maine legislature deciding on whether to allow nearshore windfarms

Listen to the Maine Legislature's Utility and Energy Committee deciding the fate of the Gulf of Maine. Will the legislators approve a bill that

would open nearly all of Maine State waters to absentee-owned

industrial marine windfarming? Or will they transform the bill LD1810,

into a resolve that is sent out to communities and stakeholders for a

year


Right now (5:10 pm) they…
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Added by Ron Huber on March 18, 2010 at 5:11pm — No Comments

BDN (Maineville edition): State legislators scrambling as furious fishermen fight plan to "close the commons".

Bangor Daily News 3/ 17/10
Maineville Edition…


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Added by Ron Huber on March 17, 2010 at 2:49pm — 4 Comments

Angus and the 'tute see the light

Added by Ron Huber on March 16, 2010 at 3:04pm — 7 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

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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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