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Federal Government Imposes First-of-Its-Kind Fee on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Hidden deep within the over 700 pages of the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is a brand-new provision intended to give the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to…

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Added by Dan McKay on August 24, 2022 at 7:18pm — 3 Comments

COMMISSION INITIATED INVESTIGATION INTO TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION UTILITY RATE DESIGN TO PROMOTE STATE POLICIES

     I am just going to offer a big "What the Hell is This All About" and leave it at that until I have a chance to wade through this PUC mess.

Added by Dan McKay on August 24, 2022 at 6:42pm — 1 Comment

Natural gas-powered electricity generation in the US spiked to an all-time high last month despite soaring prices

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  • Electricity generated from natural gas hit an all-time high in the US last month despite soaring prices.
  • High usage is expected to exacerbate energy shortages, as natural gas inventories run low.
  • The EU has been particularly impacted, and plans on cutting its…
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Added by Dan McKay on August 24, 2022 at 5:30am — 5 Comments

‘There is No Climate Emergency’

‘There is No Climate Emergency’ (1,107 signatories and counting)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 24, 2022

“… there is ample evidence that CO2 mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly. Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realities. There is no climate emergency.”

There are a lot of very smart people in the world. And most do not work at…

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Added by Dan McKay on August 24, 2022 at 5:13am — 2 Comments

Energy Clarity: Energy policy Alex Epstein

In the next few emails, we're going to be talking about energy policy.



In previous emails, we concluded that fossil fuels are a moral form of energy that should be expanded, not restricted. But, there's one qualifier. We can say there are moral forms of energy, but it’s only moral to use them if they are being used the right way.



Minimizing misuse



Like any technology, fossil fuels can be misused. Part of ensuring the proper use of fossil…

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Added by Dan McKay on August 21, 2022 at 8:28am — 1 Comment

Our Government Assaults Our Integrity

      Productivity starts with energy. In Olden Days, the Greeks used manual labor to produce. It was effective, the elites drove the slaves to perform. When the rulers wanted more production, they created a larger work force or demanded more laborious activity from the masses of workers.
     Today, due to the discovery of objective mass/energy physics, our productivity is still related to the energy…
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Added by Dan McKay on August 21, 2022 at 7:56am — No Comments

New England's Winter of Reckoning

 Ships that pass in the night. Now that President Biden has promised Europe that American natural gas is on its way, could we see American ships heading for Germany passing Russian ships headed for New England next winter?

     At least one New England natural gas-fired plant fueled by liquefied natural gas has received Russian fuel when pipeline constraints paralyzed their operation. That was during the winter of 2018, "Massachusetts Limits Gas Pipelines,…
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Added by Dan McKay on August 20, 2022 at 6:00am — 2 Comments

Energy Clarity: Fossil fuels make us safer from climate Alex Epstein

Fossil fuels make us safer from…
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Added by Dan McKay on August 14, 2022 at 9:26am — 1 Comment

How a Liberal Sees Bannon and the Deplorables

Steve Bannon is disrupting democracy. This is how www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/07/politics/steve-bannon-us-democracy/media/steve-bannon-invs/s_856FF6C214776108AA6171C1BD65D97599E02136EC4E792BE937CFC04A735F46_1657916609047_bannon-hp-image-1.jpg?w=636&ssl=1" class="ff-og-image-inserted lazyloaded" src="https://i0.wp.com/…
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Added by Dan McKay on August 10, 2022 at 7:23pm — 1 Comment

The Energy Freedom Platform Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

The root of our global energy crisis is Green Energy Fascism—the idea that government should have total control over the energy industry (fascism) used for the “green” goal of rapidly eliminating fossil fuels and nuclear.

The solution is Energy Freedom—the idea that individuals should be free to produce and consume energy how they judge best,…

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Added by Dan McKay on August 10, 2022 at 6:05pm — No Comments

Maine voters may begin requesting absentee ballots for the November 8, 2022 General Election.

Welcome to the Maine Department of the Secretary of State

Absentee Voting Guide

Voting is one of the fundamental rights we have as citizens of this state and country. Everyone should make an effort to cast a ballot at each election.



Maine law makes it easy to cast an absentee ballot. You don't have to be out-of-town or have any other reason to take advantage of this easy way to vote at a time that is most convenient…

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Added by Dan McKay on August 9, 2022 at 5:30am — 1 Comment

Washington DC Hurls Maine a Death Bomb

All-Electric Forcing in the “Inflation Reduction Act” (up to $14,000 per home)

By  -- August 9, 2022

“It seems that the only people who could claim a $14,000 [home electrification] rebate have well above average income.  If so, like $7,500 electric vehicles (EV’s) rebates,…

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Added by Dan McKay on August 9, 2022 at 5:01am — No Comments

This is Historic Stupidity

STATEMENT BY SECRETARY GRANHOLM ON THE SENATE’S PASSAGE OF THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT OF 2022
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm issued the following statement today following the Senate’s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022:

“President Biden entered office with a pledge to build a new economy powered by…

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Added by Dan McKay on August 7, 2022 at 4:47pm — 10 Comments

"Energy Clarity: The fertilizer effect" Alex Epstein

The fertilizer…
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Added by Dan McKay on August 7, 2022 at 11:05am — 2 Comments

The Scales Have Tipped Towards NECEC as a Must Project

  Intuitively speaking, one might think 1200 megawatts of solid hydro-powered electricity could help reduce wholesale electric prices, especially when natural gas-fired plants are stretched to the max. 

   A review of Friday's and Saturday's wholesale market data as displayed on the ISO-NE Express Website confirms that the excessive demand brought on by the oppressive heat of the past two days sent the price of electricity up by 36%, Saturday and up 42% on Friday as the last…
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Added by Dan McKay on August 7, 2022 at 10:51am — 2 Comments

Germany Powering Down

August 01, 2022
Germany Powering Down

01 August 2022

Ludwigshafen,…

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Added by Dan McKay on August 6, 2022 at 1:13pm — 4 Comments

Thank You, ISO-NE, New England States Make the TOP TEN

10 states with the highest residential electricity rates

State May electric…
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Added by Dan McKay on August 5, 2022 at 6:49pm — 3 Comments

Where is solar? where is wind?

Current resources powering New England…
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Added by Dan McKay on August 5, 2022 at 5:32pm — No Comments

ISO-NE CEO Speaks About The Future of New England Electricity

ISO-NE CEO Gordon van Welie comments of July 28,2022
"Wind, solar and natural gas are not stable". 
"We (ISO-NE) need to get off natural gas"
"We (ISO-NE) used 80 million gallons of oil last winter"
"We need to spend more money on transmission"
"Reducing our dependence on fossil fuels......... accessing balancing energy supplies from neighboring regions, like Hydro-Quebec"
"WE NEED A PLAN!"

Added by Dan McKay on August 4, 2022 at 5:30am — 2 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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