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Maine "leaders" societal electrification and "renewable" BS is as recklessly stupid as it is arrogant

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Uncertain investment challenges employers, apprenticeship programs and the next generation of workers.

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Tim Burgess



Tim Burgess is assistant business manager of IBEW Local 104.
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When a severe storm knocks out power in the middle of the night, Mainers don’t think about…
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Added by Long Islander on October 13, 2026 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

Tanya Blanchard: The Northern Maine Transmission Route

If this 1,200 MW transmission line goes through, it will not only make possible the 800 MW Clearway project in Aroostook, but also 400 MW of smaller NEW wind projects along the way down. The Haynesville to Pittsfield line would break up the long existing electricity bottleneck and old projects along the way, previously stopped by the bottleneck, will suddenly become…

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Added by Long Islander on October 12, 2026 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

F/V Mistress Time For Everybody In The Same Room

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The F/V Mistress sank near the Block Island wind  turbines January 1, 2019 
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To resolve the complex issues surrounding…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on October 12, 2026 at 10:43am — 1 Comment

CMP shares northern Maine transmission route with legislators

Watch out for Wall Street interlopers who could be enabled to build new wind monstrosities that could tap into this line. Watch out for newly created bottlenecks anywhere to the south of this line in Maine which might create the need for new substations and much bigger towers in much wider paths.
CMP shares northern Maine transmission route with legislators



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Added by Long Islander on October 10, 2026 at 11:00pm — 2 Comments

Mandatory 2-Nautical-Mile Offshore Wind Turbine Spacing

The 2-nautical-mile spacing of offshore wind turbines should be mandatory. Maritime safety, commercial fishing operations, and search-and-rescue limitations require larger setbacks. Wind developers typically favor a tighter 1-nautical-mile grid to maximize financing for submarine cables. 

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Added by Frank Haggerty on October 10, 2026 at 2:04pm — 3 Comments

Block Island Wind Why Are They Hiding The Boat



September 2020 Official Publication: BOEM published these findings in its OCS Study BOEM 2020-044. On page 184 of the report, it states: "On the final day of the dive survey, partial boat debris (e.g., paneling from a…

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Added by Frank Haggerty on October 9, 2026 at 7:18am — 1 Comment

New England Net Generation From Natural Gas Reaches Highest Level Since 2012

Billions of dollars wasted on wind and solar to get us off fossil fuels. 

Added by Dan McKay on October 8, 2026 at 11:35am — No Comments

The Lies Just Don't Match The Facts, Hannah

I wish Hannah Pingree and Heather Sanborn would explain how Natural Gas is raising electric prices:
 
ISO-NE tracks year over year electricity prices and year over year natural gas prices. The trend so far this year is for rising electricity prices despite sinking natural gas prices.
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Added by Dan McKay on October 7, 2026 at 9:23am — 1 Comment

Are You Following This, Central Maine Power and Versant?

"Connecticut last month announced plans to secure 63.4 megawatts of new solar capacity from arrays to be built in New Hampshire and Maine, a move that the state says…

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Added by Dan McKay on October 7, 2026 at 8:07am — No Comments

How about a pipeline to bring Marcellus deposits to Mainers' wallets?

The lack of adequate natural gas pipeline capacity, totally politically caused, is costing Mainers a lot of money and jeopardizing energy security.

The tiny red line on the map below traces the distance from the Marcellus deposits to Maine.

The line drawn on the map is actually larger than the actual distance, simply so that it can be readily seen on the map below. That we have shortages here in Maine, that close to one of the world's largest natural gas deposits is…

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Added by Long Islander on October 7, 2026 at 8:04am — No Comments

BOEM Aware of Lost Boat M/V Mistress in 2020

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BOEM Aware of Lost Boat M/V Mistress in 2020
2019, the Bureau of Ocean…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on October 6, 2026 at 10:29pm — No Comments

Maine’s next governor will walk a tightrope between energy affordability and climate action

By Delger Erdenesanaa

Published on: October 2, 2026

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Pingree wants Maine to procure more clean energy through projects such as the Northern Maine Renewable Energy Program, which aims to develop utility-scale renewable energy projects and transmission infrastructure in Aroostook County.

Bennett and Pingree hold many of the same positions on energy. “We need to go to a clean energy future,” Bennett said in an…

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Added by Long Islander on October 6, 2026 at 11:34am — No Comments

The Cover-Up of the Sinking of the F/V Mistress

The F/V Mistress, a 52-foot wooden trawler, sank on New Year’s Day 2019 near the Block Island wind turbines.
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The Coast Guard…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on October 5, 2026 at 4:46pm — No Comments

Mass. Gov Healey asks feds to expedite review of proposed gas pipeline expansion in Mass.

By Miriam Wasser

October 01, 2026

Amid ongoing public outcry over sky high energy bills, Gov. Maura Healey has asked the Trump administration to expedite its review of a natural gas pipeline expansion project in New England.

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Added by Long Islander on October 5, 2026 at 1:28pm — 2 Comments

M/V Mistress  OCS Study BOEM 2020-044  Block Island, RI

F/V Mistress 
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The F/V Mistress was a 52-foot commercial fishing boat that sank near the Block Island Wind Farm on January 1, 2019, during a winter storm, claiming the lives of two crew members while one was rescued.
The U.S. Coast Guard all-weather MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on October 5, 2026 at 9:44am — 1 Comment

Coast Guard Dual Investigations Including F/V Mistress Block Island

The Coast Guard is being asked to reopen the investigation of the F/V Mistress 

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A wreck believed to be the…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on October 3, 2026 at 10:12am — No Comments

Engineering Alert to ISO-NE. Stop the Long Term Transmission Project attached to Aroostook County Wind. A better Idea has Arrived

The combination of a proposed transmission line from Pittsfield Maine to Boston and 1200 megawatts of wind plants and associated generator tie line to Pittsfield would cost nearly $4 billion dollars.

On the other hand, consider what an upgrade to natural gas transmission pipeline to add 300 million cubic feet of natural gas to New England from Pennsylvania shale gas and how that would compare to electricity output from wind turbines.

It takes…
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Added by Dan McKay on October 3, 2026 at 6:18am — 3 Comments

Nuclear forNew England?

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Added by Dan McKay on October 2, 2026 at 9:32am — No Comments

Massachusetts' Governor Pulls a Switcheroo

 HERE'S SOMETHINGyou probably didn’t have on your bingo card: The Democratic governor of Massachusetts asking President Trump’s administration to move faster in approving a gas expansion project.…
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Added by Dan McKay on October 2, 2026 at 9:14am — No Comments

Offshore Wind Spacing: A Fatal Mistake

The commercial fishing vessel F/V Mistress, which sank during a storm near Block Island on January 1, 2019, may have been located in August 2026, resting 92 feet underwater and 50 feet from a wind turbine. The group Green Oceans is asking for an investigation. 
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A highly sophisticated all-weather…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on September 30, 2026 at 9:04am — 1 Comment

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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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