Deflection Maneuvers Within the EUT Committee

Chair Lawrence, Chair Zeigler and Honorable Persons of the EUT Committee

Does LD 698 have a purpose? An Act Directing the Public Utilities Commission to Study the State Natural Gas Supply Pursuant to the Maine Energy Cost Reduction
Act
Obviously, the PUC can't forecast natural gas supply and prices for Maine or New England. They proved that with their estimate of savings from selecting King Pine Wind and LS Power for Aroostook County. They are so unsure about their estimate that they will not disclose the terms offered by King Pine.
You can't get more natural gas from southern New England. They can't build any more natural gas pipelines or compressor stations or upgrades to compressor stations, thanks to environmental activists, some who offer their brilliant ideas to this committee. 
But, alas, Maine is already getting more natural gas to increase operation of existing Maine sited plants.. Since 2019 Maine electric output from instate natural gas plants has increased 105% ( 1,797,270 Megawatt hours to 3,687,309 megawatt hours) All this production increase was from 4 Maine plants. ( Androscoggin Energy, Independence Station, Rumford Power and Westbrook Energy Center)
 Isn't it coincidental that Calpine was bitterly fighting the NECEC project?  Perhaps someone could ask Calpine what they knew was coming if NECEC was stopped.
You may ask yourself "Why is Maine output from in-state natural gas-fired plants going up 105% in three years?" Maybe Southern New England has figured out that electricity moves at nearly the speed of light and Maine ratepayers can afford the price of additional RGGI carbon allowances as Massachusetts  gets greener from reducing the burning of natural gas.
Maybe, the PUC calculated the savings from King Pine on the basis of ISO-NE wholesale price spikes of late 2022. Maybe they should recalculate the savings on current wholesale prices ( Down 66% since January 2022 and down 58% since December 2022) Maybe, they should just disclose the pricing terms from King Pine to the public who is underwriting this project through their electric bills and tax payments.
Maybe, you will ask yourself " Are the larger power consuming states in New England playing a shifting game against the smaller states?" Maybe this "all for one and one for all " pact has unintended consequences.
Maybe all these proposed studies are just deflection maneuvers to keep the people quiet. I don't think the people will be fooled by this "CONCEPT"
I think the current plan-non-plan isn't working. People pay more for electricity, and Maine gets less GREEN. 
You may consider Canada as a source of natural gas, but, SOB, they have already offered 1200 megawatts of 24/7 hydro power for transfer to Lewiston,Maine. 
CHASING CARBON ZERO IS FUTILE
GET OUT OF ISO-NE AS FAST AS YOU CAN. GET NECEC PASSED. SAVE MAINE
Dan McKay    Dixfield

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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."

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