Eight Republican Reps: "Running water is not a renewable"
The following eight Republicans went against their party's leader, Governor LePage and agreed with the wind industry that running water is not renewable. By effectively banning large inexpensive Canadian hydro power as a renewable, they have granted yet one more subsidy in kind to the parasitic wind industry that is harming Maine and Mainers.
| BURNS of Whiting |
| CROCKETT of Bethel |
| KNAPP of Gorham |
| MOULTON of York |
| RICHARDSON of Carmel |
| STRANG BURGESS of Cumberland |
| TILTON of Harrington |
| WILLETTE of Mapleton |
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Comment by Whetstone_Willy on April 17, 2012 at 9:10am
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If the following is going on nationally, shouldn't someone be investigating this sort of thing here in Maine? The wind industry has lots of money, much of which it gets from you and me every April 15th.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75215.html
Wind industry blows campaign cash at GOP
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75215.html#ixzz1sIpM0cLN
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Comment by freemont tibbetts on April 17, 2012 at 5:31am
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Guy Venturen, I thank You for coming on board it sounds like you are a fighter to me. So what is your say on the best way to put a stop the pathetic money grab in our government ?
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Comment by guy venturen on April 16, 2012 at 10:46pm
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This is what government has become a pathetic money grab...if steal taxpayer money to throw money at your wind mills you have to throw money at my Biomass... FCUK the tax and rate payer who stupidity voted thinking their is any honest person going into government to serve the people!
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According to the two responses received thus far from my inquiries on why they voted as they did (from Rep. Crockett and Willette) both voted against the governor because of the threat the minority bill would have posed to existing biomass facilities. Rep. Crockett alluded that if biomass had been "exempted from the bill" they would have voted otherwise, Rep. Willette explained that if biomass was given the same special rate as industrial wind, he might have voted with the governor.
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Comment by Gary Campbell on April 16, 2012 at 12:02pm
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Wind warriors in those districts ought to write them letters (not phone calls or emails) explaining how with their vote they have created a constituent who will work hard to see that he/she is not re-elected.
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Representative Meredith Strang-Burgess owns an advertising agency in Portland and if you click the links on the left side of the following page, it looks as though one of her biggest accounts is Efficiency Maine.Efficiency Maine is of course into pushing, among other things, "alternative energy" and is funded by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative as well as extra charges in our electric bills. So Strang-Burgess is no stranger to socking it to the ratepayer. Moreover, if one looks at Efficiency Maine's board of trustees, we see some of the familiar greenies who are big boosters of useless wind power such as former NRCM board member Adam Lee and Dale McCormick whose some how steered her housing agency into all kinds of carbon credit schemes.Take a look at these folks - they are likely the same people who gave the Efficiency Maine account to the Representative's advertising agency.
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To the 467- Member"s of Citizen"s Task Force On Wind Power- Maine. Let's see some Comments on these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
( 8 Republican Dead Brains on Big Wind Power ) Freemont Tibbetts Dixfield Maine
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Comment by MaineHiker on April 15, 2012 at 8:39am
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$ick!
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Long island, I say that they have Friend's, that stand to make a lot of BIG $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ on the Wind Mill"s, or they were ALL standing behind the door when the Brains were passed out.
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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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