JOHN E. BALDACCI - Why Have the Maine Media Not Reported This?

With wind power one of the most controversial issues Maine has ever seen; and with the 2008 expedited wind law "the most radical land use law in Maine history"; is it not newsworthy when the former Governor who personally rammed that wind industry-developed abhorrent law down our throats becomes the Vice Chairman of the world's second largest wind project assets owner in December 2015?

Why has the Maine media not told its audiences about the former Governor's lofty position? Keep in mind the same media will devote substantial space to a wind industry sponsored PR event such as a cookout for snowmobilers at a wind "farm". But somehow they will not let the public know where wind Governor Baldacci sits these days. It has been over two years.

Several years ago we discovered that S. Donald Sussman, the billionaire then husband of US Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, who pushed green energy in his newspapers (Maine Today Media, e.g., the Portland Press Herald) had given then top Maine wind company First Wind's longtime owner hedge fund D.E. Shaw its start by staking them $28 million. Prior to that we had seen that former Press Herald owner Bobby Monks, Jr. had a photo of wind turbines on his website on the very webpage where he solicited investment opportunities. 

What is it going to take to get fair coverage of the state's wind power problem?

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Comment by arthur qwenk on March 2, 2018 at 10:35am

To state and openly show the incestuousness of Maine politicians and corporate enviro-groups to the Wind Lobby in Maine, (the interrelationships and  and illegalities that have taken place since 2008 ) would  take the left wing party   of Maine  down.

The papers , the FAKE MEDIA of Maine , are complicit as well.

Maine is a WIND STATE.

Maine Energy policy is Owned and operated for the benefit of Corporate Wind's  metastatic political complex, Unless its citizenry " Make Maine Great  Again"!

 

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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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