Over half a million balsa hardwood trees are being illegally logged in the Amazon rainforest every year to feed the massive demand for wind turbines in many parts of the world. Balsa is a lightweight but strong wood that is commonly used in the core of giant turbine blades. It can make up around 7% of the blade and each set of three can use up to 40 trees.

Given what is known about annual balsa production, the scale of illegal logging and the demands of wind…

        NUCLEAR NEVER FLINCHED TO THE ONSLAUGHT OF RENEWABLES

If all the Maine electricity ratepayer money that went to solar, wind and battery developers for the past decade had gone instead to Revenue Sharing Funds to every town in Maine, it would have doubled that funding and our electric bills would be less than half of what they are now.

Repealing greenhouse gas regulations

Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency

Maine has joined about two dozen states, plus more than a dozen cities, counties and other locales, …

Electric Car Registrations in U.S. Plunge 41% as Gas-Powered Vehicles are Preferred by Consumers

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/electric-car-registrations-in-u-s-plunge-41-as-gas-powered

By Leslie Eastman

Honda eliminated…

                         WHERE WE ARE NOW                                                     WHERE THE DEMOCRATS WANT US

Here is an ISO-NE chart of real time wholesale prices throughout the date of March 17,2026. A windy day with an abundance of sunshine, very common on a New England Spring day.

Notice how prices become negative several times between noon and 5 pm. Negative prices mean generators must pay for market access to their output.

ISO-NE would like to be able to estimate the output from wind and solar to match with demand at any given moment. This would prevent…

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published March 16, 2026 at 7:42 PM EDT

A planned 10 megawatt, gas-fired power plant to provide electricity and heat to a major redevelopment on the Portland waterfront is stoking opposition from neighbors and climate activists in the city.

Barbara Vestal, who lives on Fore Street near the proposed development said she and others were shocked and surprised to learn about developer PF Land LCC's plans for the power plant. The company…

• There is significantly more argon than carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere.
• Argon is the third most abundant gas.
• Argon constitutes roughly 0.93% of the atmosphere. 
• Carbon Dioxide makes up about 0.04%.
• Argon is 20 times more abundant…

This chart depicts the average supply per hour of fuel types for the winter, December 2024 to February 2025.

Notice how little wind and solar contribute to generation.…

New England Legacy Press Members Hold Convention To Bemoan The Death Of Their Lazy Journalism

By Ted Cohen

March 14, 2026

Funny how the very newspapers that are failing are the same ones that don’t cover news.



The annual convention of the New England Newspaper & Press Association featured a speaker who said that “for the first time in American history, trust in journalism is now lower…

By Tux Turkel

Published on: March 13, 2026

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Maine and New England must choose between two divergent paths for how to generate electricity in the coming years, according to two noteworthy reports released this winter that come to very different conclusions.

Despite their differences, both reports agree on one thing: New England’s already high…

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The plant would be built next to the densely populated Munjoy Hill neighborhood, raising concerns about emissions, exhaust stacks and other environmental impacts.

March 14, 2026

Portland officials learned this month that the developers of the city’s eastern waterfront — a 10-acre project that’s been in the works for over a decade — plan to build a natural gas-fired cogeneration plant to provide electricity, heat and hot water to the…

ISO-NE data reports rthat the average natural gas plant in New England emits 0.3924 tons of C02 per megawatt per hour of operation.

RGGI reports that plants will be assessed a tax of $24.99 per ton of C02 emitted

0.3924 X 24.99 = $9.81 per megawatt.…

WHEN HOUSE DEMOCRATS first floated a plan to take the teeth out of the state’s next big deadline for slashing greenhouse gas emissions, Gov. Maura Healey did not have much to say about it.

Instead, she wanted to talk about reducing household electricity and gas costs.

“I haven’t seen the outlines of any specific plan on that,” she said in November, three days after CommonWealth Beacon …