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Comment by Martha thacker on November 21, 2014 at 7:02am

These increases have come directly from the legislative process...deregulation, expedited wind law, cap and trade in New England without being approved in DC. Why is it we have to obey some federal laws and not others. ISO New England and FERC made it happen. The Conn. senator Richard Blumenthal , when he was governor , found over 1 million dollars charged to rate payers with no power produced.He sued and the case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where he lost. So , not only is the cost of building wind farms etc. added to rates of New Englanders, they have to pay for imaginary power. Imagined in the hearts and minds of those in Augusta and DC. God help them.

Comment by Mike DiCenso on November 20, 2014 at 9:26pm

Someone in the wind cabal told Conn. that their energy costs would come down with wind power from Maine. How could so many people believe the lies? The costs will keep rising but people believe what they want to believe. It is easier that way than to think that in this day and age there are still BS artists and snake oil salesmen running loose.

Comment by Whetstone_Willy on November 20, 2014 at 5:39pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick

Vulnerability to confidence tricks

Confidence tricks exploit typical human characteristics such as greed, dishonesty, vanity, opportunism, lust, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility, desperation, and naïvety. As such, there is no consistent profile of a confidence trick victim; the common factor is simply that the victim relies on the good faith of the con artist. Victims of investment scams tend to show an incautious level of greed and gullibility, and many con artists target the elderly, but even alert and educated people may be taken in by other forms of confidence trick.^[6]

Accomplices, also known as shills, help manipulate the mark into accepting the perpetrator's plan. In a traditional confidence trick, the mark is led to believe that he will be able to win money or some other prize by doing some task. The accomplices may pretend to be strangers who have benefited from performing the task in the past.

Comment by Penny Gray on November 20, 2014 at 4:27pm

As Europe goes, so goes the US, like lemmings over a cliff, all in support of industrial wind. We'd better brace ourselves because it's going to get much worse.

Comment by Art Brigades on November 20, 2014 at 3:30pm

One of these days CT, MA, RI will realize that all the wind turbines in ME amount to little more than a massive and frightfully expensive sugar pill.  If they really want to buy renewable power that matters, high-quality renewable power that is useful and necessary, they only need a half dozen 5 - inch diameter DC cables coming from Newfoundland and Quebec.  Concurrently fix the natural gas constraints that have gone neglected because we've been obsessed with foolishly blowing over a billion dollars on Maine wind turbines, and we are all back in business. If a gubernatorial candidate proposed such a scenario he might win!