PPH - Parent company of CMP hires Maine PUC commissioner who resigned
Carlisle McLean, one of the utility regulators criticized by Gov. LePage for approving rules to compensate solar energy producers, is now senior counsel at Avangrid.
http://www.pressherald.com/2017/08/08/ex-puc-commissioner-takes-job...
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OK, let me see if I understand this. First we have ex-Gov Baldacci, the father of Maine's heinous expedited wind law in 2008 becoming vice-chair of Avangrid in December 2015. Avangrid is the nation's second largest wind company. Then a few months ago, Maine Energy office head Patrick Woodcock becomes asst secretary of energy in Massachusetts, a state whose crooked legislature has mandated its ratepayers buy extraordinarily costly wind power and where Avangrid company CMP is one of the companies hoping to make hundreds of millions of dollars building transmission in Maine for the unwitting Mass ratepayers who are about to get fleeced. And now a Maine PUC commissioner is moved into place at Avangrid. Are we seeing the requisite assets being moved into place for Massachusetts corrupt politicians' planned assault on the state of Maine? CMP is of course the company which with Gov Baldacci and his PUC chairman, Kurt Adams, nailed Maine ratepayers with the $1.4 BILLION "CPM Upgrade" (Maine Power Reliability Project or MPRP) which was a 100% ratepayer-funded gift to the wind industry so they could sell their electrons and REC's to southern New England. Of course the liars denied this and told us the lines were aging and population growth required new lines - both bald faced lies. And of course Kurt Adams, while still chair of the Maine PUC while the skids were being greased for this wind industry gift was given over $1 million in stock options by now defunct national embarrassment First Wind/SunEdison, for whom the freebie transmission was largely for. The next month Adams landed at First Wind as Director of Transmission. Folks, the media never will connect these dots, the legislature fails to protect us, the environmental groups are bought and paid for and will let Maine tourism be destroyed so long as no turbines show up in the front yards of their coastal properties and selectmen the state over will betray us. If we want to stop being treated as a third world country, it will be us that stops the insanity.
See: http://www.windtaskforce.org/page/corruption-in-maine-1 and follow the links once there.
BDN - Former LePage lawyer who quit as utilities regulator in June lands job at CMP parent company
Former Maine Public Utilities Commissioner Carlisle McLean in July began a senior legal job at Avangrid, the publicly traded parent company of Central Maine Power Co.
http://bangordailynews.com/2017/08/08/politics/former-lepage-lawyer...
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Comment by Monique Aniel Thurston on August 8, 2017 at 1:08pm
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In politics, the "revolving door" is a movement of personnel between roles as legislators and regulators and the industries affected by the legislation and regulation. In some cases, the roles are performed in sequence but in certain circumstances may be performed at the same time.....
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CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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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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