Angus King secures lobbyist spot for himself on U.S. Senate's Energy Committee
The Senator is reading right from the wind hustlers' book of lies. Well then again, he helped write it. The article below reports he has just secured an appointment on the U.S. Senate's Energy Committee. It's like having a wind lobbyist on that committee - impacting decisions affecting the entire U.S., and the 316 million rent payers who live here and enrich the people on the inside.
BDN - Angus King: "The wind industry already has invested more than $1 billion in Maine"
http://bangordailynews.com/2014/12/12/politics/susan-collins-angus-...
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Angus King appointed to Senate energy oversight panel
"This seat will help me work hard to protect Maine's beautiful and abundant natural resources, and encourage a cleaner, more deliberate national energy policy.”
http://www.pressherald.com/2014/12/12/king-appointed-to-senate-ener...
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Comment by Kathy Sherman on December 13, 2014 at 5:05pm
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Dan, Could you please point to source(s) of info on RPS rate impacts, and your numbers are before new transmission, before MA solar carve out and before long-term contracts of MA utilities for Cape Wind and out-of-state wind facilities, right? I ask because I sometimes track the price of the environmental attributes, and follow the volatility (ironic for something that was supposed to stabilize electric rates) - but it is hugely difficult to understand 'market forces' when RECs are pre-purchased by state agencies, univetsities (Harvard), or sold as 'green power' as well as purchased by utilities. Likewise, 20 year contracts are defeating competitive market forces, but I see those who advocate Big Wind accuse those who mention such concerns as Koch-loving arch-conservatives. In my part of MA, we pay 1.5¢/kWh for energy efficiency programs too, on top of everything else.
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Comment by Dan McKay on December 13, 2014 at 10:19am
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Renewable energy costs money. In Massachusetts, the RPS( Renewable Portfolio Standards ) alone will cost customers between one cent to one and one half cents per kilowatt-hour. In Maine, the cost is nearly one cent per kilowatt-hour. AND the cost of renewable energy goes up every year as designed in annual increases in the State's RPS.
As Maine is part of the New England Regional Electric Market, RPS in all States in this Regional market influences our in-state retail electric costs.
New England will use 138,390,000,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2014. This means the cost of renewable energy for 2014 is $1.38 billion dollars to New England customers.
The billion dollar investment in Maine Wind as gloriously proclaimed by the Maine Renewable Energy Association and Senator King is supposed to save money, NOT cost money. Good Grief !!
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Well doesn't this just suck a root! Nevada has its main maggot in Harry Reid and Maine has its corporate parasite in Angus King. Why does this cretin keep getting elected? It's as bad as Vermont always re-electing that social retard, Bernie Sanders. Now you even have Jessie Ventura, the Mexican gringo of ORA off-grid TV worshiping the ground Angus walks on. Someone ought to find out how Angus is connected to the centipede call Sun Edison and whether that brat offspring of Angus has moved up in the First Wind hierarchy. This really sucks.
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
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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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