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CO2 Science

"Hello. I’m Dr. Craig Idso, Chairman of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. In recent years, governments and elected officials at all levels have proposed or enacted regulations and laws designed to restrict the use of fossil fuels via tax, caps or fiat limits on CO2 emissions.
Such efforts are based upon the notion that CO2 emissions are polluting the atmosphere and causing dangerous global warming.…
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Added by Dan McKay on June 11, 2022 at 6:50am — 2 Comments

Bidenomics in Action: Midwest Braces for Rotating Power Blackouts This Summer

Reuters reported:

The power grid in the Central United States could be forced to impose rotating blackouts on some of the hottest…

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Added by Dan McKay on June 5, 2022 at 6:33am — 5 Comments

According to ISO-NE, It Isn't Intermittent Resources Like Wind and Solar, It's the " Intermittent Climate "

  

Statement From ISO-NE, June 1.2022

"Though ISO New England expects the region to have adequate supplies of electricity this summer, conditions could force system operators to take action to maintain system reliability. ISO New England operators have many tools at their disposal to maintain the overall reliability of the power system. These well-established procedures protect the region in the event of an unexpected power plant or…

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Added by Dan McKay on June 4, 2022 at 8:27am — 6 Comments

We Have Seen This Scenario Played Out Too Many Times in Maine Politics.

    Liz Caruso, a Connecticut import and candidate for congress in the second district, is yet another politician aiming to secure a cushy alternative energy position after successfully hoodwinking Maine citizens into rejecting a tremendous opportunity to boost electricity supply and lower electricity costs with a very insignificant downside.

     For certain, she was able to rile up a stink against CMP, enough so…

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Added by Dan McKay on June 4, 2022 at 7:56am — 2 Comments

What Gives?

What gives? 

  Electricity prices are soaring, unpaid power bills are mounting, the scramble to reduce electricity usage is bottoming out, rooftop solar panels are too expensive, even with government intervention.
  Government Intervention, the most perilous two words in the vocabulary of words. It has caused successes to become failures. Its history is full of unintended consequences and what was once unbelievable is just about upon us.
   Surely,…
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Added by Dan McKay on May 30, 2022 at 7:25am — 4 Comments

National News Reports Predict Electricity Shortages Are Coming.

  The path to comfort slipped right through our hands. Electricity is great when it is just a flip of the switch away, but life can be excruciating when electricity is interrupted, especially when interruptions coincide with unbelievable high prices. 

  Electricity was never meant to be a luxury item, just for the few.  It is one of the most valuable resources for the improvement of everyone's living standards. 
  Whether you believe…
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Added by Dan McKay on May 28, 2022 at 7:41am — 4 Comments

As Energy Prices Rise, Thousands of Mainers at Risk of Losing Power and Sicko Berry Wants to See Higher Fossil Fuel Prices

A 2019 study by the Maine Office of the Public Advocate found that low-income households spent on average, 19 percent of their income on energy costs. With those costs now nearly double the 2019 amount, that 19 percent could be closer to 40 percent now, said state Rep. Seth Berry, D-Bowdoinham.

“That doesn’t leave you much to feed your kids,” Berry said.

There’s no good answer, Berry said.

“The $850 checks (and) the other, federal monies were intended to help offset…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 22, 2022 at 7:38am — 4 Comments

RECs: The Hidden Costs of Renewables

In places like New England, where land value makes it expensive to build new facilities, REC sales provide an essential revenue stream for renewable energy developers. Each REC has a price. The price is the additional amount needed per MWh by the renewable energy generator to make post-1997 projects financially feasible. By mandating this type of renewable energy, the law is ensuring increased renewable energy supply in a space where supply would not get built without a…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 7, 2022 at 10:37am — 4 Comments

A Plan of Unintended Consequences

The Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan is the Governor’s plan, approved by the Legislature, to invest nearly $1 billion in Federal American Rescue Plan funds to improve the lives of Maine people and families
 
From this money:
 

This new program builds upon actions already…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 7, 2022 at 7:26am — No Comments

An Appropriate Title

Con-Ed, an out of state energy company is attempting to bully the Maine PUC in accepting their terms for the construction of transmission services to Northern Maine that will hurt the ratepayers. 

Added by Dan McKay on May 7, 2022 at 7:14am — No Comments

Communism At Work

  Androscoggin County Valley of Governments will use its award to help four towns –

   Town of Jay

    , Carthage , Greenwood and

   Town of Chesterville

    – develop climate planning priorities . “AVCOG serves some of the state’s most vulnerable populations , and with 72% of the Maine’s communities lacking planning staff , we applaud the Maine Won’t Wait climate action plan for identifying our work as critical in…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 7, 2022 at 7:05am — 2 Comments

Collapsing The Grid by Increasing Demand While Decreasing Supply

Bitcoin miner comes to Lewiston, has plans for western Maine
Bitcoin mining is the process of earning Bitcoins — a decentralized digital currency, without a…
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Added by Dan McKay on April 16, 2022 at 7:25am — 7 Comments

The Many Shades of Green

"It's really important to think about what being green means. Being green is not a pro-human standard, because being green means minimizing human impact. If we want to minimize human impact, then that means that we shouldn't industrialize, we shouldn't use technology, we shouldn't develop, we never should've built New York City, we never should have a child. Ultimately, North Korea is a much greener country than South Korea when you look at it in terms of human…
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Added by Dan McKay on April 10, 2022 at 10:33am — 8 Comments

ISO-NE, HELL-BENT TO TURN OFF THE LIGHTS:

ISO-NE PRESS RELEASE March 31,2022

                                         "A CLEAR PATH FOR CLEAN ENERGY"…

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Added by Dan McKay on April 3, 2022 at 7:03am — 8 Comments

Does your legislator know these facts?

ISO-NE has an Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) which means as the grid operator it has to allow any and all types of resource generation to feed into the New England Grid, even if it is intermittent, dilute, garbage generation, etc. If there is room on the transmission system, every form of electricity is allowed.

ISO-NE allowed this because they thought an open, competitively bid pricing market would sort out the bad from the good. But, our fuckhead legislators…
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Added by Dan McKay on March 26, 2022 at 9:44am — 5 Comments

CONNECTIONS, CONNECTIONS, CONNECTIONS

A question asked about the Northern Maine, Troy Jackson proposal to build wind projects in the County and have the costs applied to Maine electric bills

Q43: "How should generation proposals evaluate their ability to bid or contract for capacity in ISO-NE if information about system upgrades is not available? "
Good Question, but there is a project that already has this information and the inside track to winning the Troy Jackson Jackpot

Craig…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 24, 2021 at 8:57am — 6 Comments

The climate change cabal has succeeded in raising the price of electricity to an amount that enables wind and solar projects to claim that they can save electric costs.

The climate change cabal has succeeded in raising the price of electricity to an amount that enables wind and solar projects to claim that they can save electric costs.

Added by Dan McKay on December 15, 2021 at 6:13am — 4 Comments

With The Rejection of NECEC, Maine Could Be the Black Sheep of the Regional New England Electric Network.

With the rejection of NECEC, Maine could become the black sheep of the regional New England electric network. 

Sure, New Hampshire rejected the same project, but New Hampshire already has a DC transmission line carved out, North to South, passing through the state. This line has no connections within New Hampshire, It is the true "Extension Cord" from Hydro-Quebec to Groton, Massachusetts.
As warnings from ISO-NE of impending struggles to provide the region…
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Added by Dan McKay on December 11, 2021 at 7:35am — 6 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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