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SouthCoast Wind - Time To Bet Another Horse Massachusetts

Massachusetts SouthCoast Wind - Time To Bet Another Horse 
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SouthCoast Wind agreed to pay over $60 million (specifically $60.4M) to Massachusetts utilities (Eversource, National Grid, Unitil) in August 2023 to terminate its original…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on December 31, 2025 at 11:10am — No Comments

As federal home efficiency tax breaks expire, Maine moves ahead with its own incentives

Thankfully the tooth fairy pays for all of this.

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published December 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM EST

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Now Brown and other vendors are working hard to explain to confused consumers that even though the tax break is gone, there's still state money available to help with projects.

The Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit provided a $1,200 income tax benefit for certain upgrades, and that helped to defray…

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Added by Long Islander on December 30, 2025 at 11:30pm — 2 Comments

Maine Republicans Scorch Mills Admin for Enabling Alleged Somali Medicaid Fraud at Gateway Community Services

Maine Republicans Scorch Mills Admin for Enabling Alleged Somali Medicaid Fraud at Gateway Community Services…

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Added by Willem Post on December 30, 2025 at 9:00pm — 4 Comments

Maine Asst Minority Leader: No More Money to NGO's Defrauding Us

Is that too much to ask?

Scroll to about the 12 minute mark and hear what Assistant Minority Leader Katrina Smith has to say.  The whole video is worth watching. We should not let this disappear into the memory hole. Heads should roll and cell doors slammed shut. 

Maybe the most important words in the video are "tip of the iceberg." What other NGO's…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on December 30, 2025 at 8:30pm — 3 Comments

BBC: “India’s solar boom faces a hidden waste problem”

BBC: “India’s solar boom faces a hidden waste problem”

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/bbc-india-s-solar-boom-faces-a-hidden-waste-problem

Essay by Eric Worrall…

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Added by Willem Post on December 30, 2025 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

Bureau of Land Management Opens National Petroleum Reserves for Development----Drill Baby Drill!

BLM Reopens National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska for Drilling

The Trump administration overturned a Biden-era ban on oil and gas development on the state’s North Slope.…
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Added by arthur qwenk on December 30, 2025 at 9:21am — No Comments

Finally, an Analysis Comparing Renewable Energy Subsidies VS. Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Lopsided Largesse: Subsidies for renewables account for almost all energy-sector federal support

 Largesse: Subsidies for renewables account for almost all energy-sector federal support | Just The News

 A …

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Added by Dan McKay on December 30, 2025 at 7:40am — No Comments

Gen. Michael Flynn Issues Urgent Open Letter to President Trump — Says “We The People demand ACCOUNTABILITY!”

Gen. Michael Flynn Issues Urgent Open Letter to President Trump — Says “We The People demand ACCOUNTABILITY!”

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on December 29, 2025 at 5:00pm — 3 Comments

. Governor Mills has made combatting climate change and supporting renewable energy a top priority of her administration. Burgess will help lead those efforts.

PUBLIC HEARING: Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 1:00 PM, Cross Building, Room 211

Governor Mills Taps Energy Expert Dan Burgess to Lead Governor’s Energy Office



March 4, 2019

Photo of Dan Burgess Governor…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 29, 2025 at 11:00am — 4 Comments

CLF: Utility reform will be key to confronting Maine’s high energy bills | Opinion

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Regulators and utilities have a choice: stick with expensive, outdated strategies, or take proven steps to protect families.



December 29, 2025

Phelps Turner





Phelps Turner is director of clean grid at Conservation Law Foundation.





Conservation Law Foundation, our partners and our allies have long been involved in exploring modern, more affordable ways to bolster our…
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Added by Long Islander on December 29, 2025 at 10:48am — 2 Comments

Massachusetts: Why Is My Energy Bill So High

Maura Healey was the Massachusetts Attorney General from 2015 until she was sworn in as Governor in January 2023.

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The Brayton Point Power Station closed in 2017, with a capacity of around 1500 megawatts…

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Added by Frank Haggerty on December 28, 2025 at 10:32am — 5 Comments

Mainers: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words.

Added by arthur qwenk on December 28, 2025 at 9:36am — 1 Comment

EXTRAORDINARY VIDEO glimpse into Minnesota fraud

Watch this video and then wonder, with the media and politicians ignoring, just how much outright theft of our taxpayer dollars is going on, including perhaps close to home. I would guess this doesn't happen without the people in charge getting rich from it. I once read the mafia gets its ideas from the government.…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on December 28, 2025 at 7:30am — 2 Comments

Maine Monitor: Our biggest environment stories in 2025

By Stephanie McFeeters

Published on: December 26, 2025

There was plenty of big environmental news this year: new clean energy legislation, an extreme drought that led to Maine’s worst August for wildfires in 20 years, federal funding cuts and more.

Here’s a look back at some of our coverage:

Federal policy shifts, funding cuts

One big focus of our reporting this year — in the environmental sphere and elsewhere — was on abrupt pauses and cuts to federal…

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Added by Long Islander on December 27, 2025 at 11:34am — 2 Comments

ISO-NE A Blue State Captured and Weak-Kneed Operational Electricity Resource Manager

ISO-NE proves to be a puppet to the blue New England States with a lack of real backbone which is driving electricity costs into the stratosphere. I would be ashamed to admit I worked for such a useless and ratepayer adverse outfit.

December 22, 2025

ISO New England statement on Department of the Interior offshore wind announcement  

ISO New…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 27, 2025 at 8:40am — 3 Comments

Maine’s energy policy looks to be going up in smoke | Tux Turkel

December 26, 2025

Tux Turkel

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.........Across Casco Bay, I see smoke rising from the 421-foot chimney at Wyman Station in Yarmouth. This power plant from a bygone era burns barge loads of polluting, climate-warming oil.

................Natural gas is a big factor. It still generates half of New England’s electricity, despite years of renewable energy expansion. It’s increasingly exported overseas, so it’s tied now to global prices. Public…

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Added by Long Islander on December 26, 2025 at 10:45pm — 4 Comments

Offshore Wind President Trump And The Administrative Procedure Act

On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order, "Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind." 

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Added by Frank Haggerty on December 26, 2025 at 9:00am — 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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