Mills Claims Maine “Clean Energy” Jobs Surpass 15k — But She’s Counting CMP and Versant Employees
The hilariously bad attempt at shoring up the green energy agenda cost Maine $35,000
Seamus Othot
May 8, 2024
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Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) announced the release of an independent study which claims that her renewable energy push has driven significant growth in the state’s economy.
The study, released Wednesday, cost taxpayers $35,000 according to the Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) which commissioned it.
“We are putting Maine people to work in rewarding, good-paying jobs that, in turn, are contributing billions to the state’s economy while helping to stabilize energy costs for households and businesses and reduce emissions that are harming our environment,” said Mills.
The new study, conducted by the BW Research Partnership, claims that Mills’ renewable energy push has led to a $2.3 billion boost to the economy.
The study, however, defines renewable energy extremely broadly, admitting any company working in “Electric Power Distribution” as a renewable energy company, meaning that the economic growth cited by Mills is not restricted to companies dedicated to renewable energy, and includes energy utilities among other businesses.
The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) passage cited by BW Research specifically mentions Avangrid, the parent company of Central Maine Power (CMP), the largest power utility in the state....................
...............However, if the study only counted people working directly with renewable energy, or even companies primarily focused on clean energy, the job numbers would be significantly lower.
According to the study, “clean energy workers” can include carpenters, roofers, electricians, office clerks, and cost estimators, among numerous other professions.
The number of people working in those professions vastly outstrip the numbers of people working directly with “renewable energy” sources, such as solar installers and wind turbine repairmen, which only have 109 ad 50 workers respectively.
BW Research also highlighted the “diversity” in Maine’s renewable energy industry, celebrating the higher percentage of non-white workers than other industries, while lamenting the fact that only one-quarter of the industry is made up by women.
The company focuses on renewable energy related research projects, and, although it claims not to allow pre-defined narratives to influence the results of its projects, it also has a commitment to transitioning to a “clean energy economy.”
“BW Research has a resolute commitment to equity and believes that the transition to a clean economy can present substantial economic opportunity for all, and particularly those who have been historically disadvantaged,” said BW Research.
That message comes as part of the company’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) commitment, where the company commits to ensuring that benefits from renewable energy are shared “equitably”, and brag about the percentage of its workers who are non-white or women..............
The full article can be read at https://www.themainewire.com/2024/05/mills-claims-maine-clean-energ...
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Comment by Willem Post on May 12, 2024 at 10:39am
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https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/natural-forces-cause-p...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/hunga-tonga-volcanic-e...Urban Heat Archipelagos
UHAs, such as on the US East Coast, from Portland, Maine, to Norfolk, Virginia, significantly contribute to local warming. That area used to be covered with forests.
Many large solar systems in the US Southwest add up to a heat archipelago, plus the very hot PV panels have very low efficiencies at high temperatures
Adaptation, such as increasing the width and height of dikes, and capacities of culvert and storm sewer systems, etc., planting billions of trees each year, rebuilding the rain forests, etc., will be required.
Because, huge quantities of solar energy are collected in the Tropics to warm the planet each day, preservation of the world’s rain forest belt is vital for the future well-being of the earth.
That should have priority over expensive, unfeasible, wind/solar/battery/EV/heat pump, etc., measures, implemented mostly in temperate zones.
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https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12390020087?pro...
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Important Role of CO2 for Flora and Fauna Growth
Plants require require at least 1000 to 1200 ppm of CO2, as proven in greenhouses
Many plants have become extinct, along with the fauna they supported, due to a lack of CO2
As a result, many areas of the world became arid and deserts.
The current CO2 needs to at least double or triple
Earth temperature increased about 1.2 C since 1900, which is due to many causes, such as fossil CO2, flora CO2, and permafrost methane which converts to CO2.
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CO2 emissions of fossil fuels are a blessing.
CO2 has increased from about 296 ppm in 1900 to 423 ppm at end 2023, and
1) Increased world greening by at least 10 to 15%, as measured by satellites since 1979. Increased greening produces oxygen by photosynthesis. It forms a filter in the upper atmosphere that absorbs harmful UV radiation, with wavelengths below 240 nm.
2) Increased world fauna
3) Increased crop yields per acre.
4) Reduced world desert areas
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https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/new-study-2001-2020-gl...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/co2-is-a-life-gas-no-c...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/co2-is-not-pollution-i...
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Benefits of CO2
https://issuu.com/johna.shanahan/docs/co2_pitch_4-3-24_baeuerle_eng...
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Oceans Absorb CO2
Sea water contains 3.5% salt, NaCl, by weight.
CO2 molecules continuously move from the air into sea water, per Henry’s Law
CO2 and NaCl form many compounds that contain C, O2, H2, Cl. They sustain flora and fauna in the oceans.
At the surface, seawater pH = 8.1, CO2 423 ppm, the % presence of [CO2], [HCO3−], and [CO3 2−] is 0.5, 89, and 10.5; “Free” CO2 molecules at the surface, is only 0.5%; CO2 out-migration is minimal, given the conditions.
As a result, the oceans are a major sink of CO2 from human and natural sources in the TS.
At least 40% of new CO2 in the TS, human and natural, is added to the oceans; about 50% stays in the TS
https://tos.org/oceanography/assets/docs/14-4_feely.pdf
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The moneyed elites, and IPCC, and WEF, and $politicians, and entrenched bureaucrats, and compromised academia, and lapdog Media, have formed a cabal to perpetuate and/or enrich themselves and impoverish all others, using the unscientific hoax of “CO2 causes global warming”.
The hoax is based on fossil fuels and CO2 being the villains
However, CO2 greens the earth, creates flora and fauna, including us, and increases crop yields per acre, and reduces desert areas.
We need more CO2, as proven by plant growth in greenhouses with 1000 to 1200 ppm CO2
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Wind/solar/batteries/hydrogen/CO2 extraction/EVs/air-source heat pumps, etc., are a financial scam to enrich/reward the world’s moneyed elites, who will continue to fly their planes and sail their yachts
No restrictions off any kind on them!!
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The scam,1) Gives increased command/control by government over people and
2) Caused impoverishment of the EU, especially the UK and Germany., and will cause the impoverishment of the US
All these countries are overrun by tens of millions of scruffy, poor, inexperienced, uneducated, culturally-different folks, from all over, crossing borders, or secretly flown in, unvetted, to get free work permits, free phones, and free debit cards, and free housing, free healthcare, free education, and free sucking from various leftist/Democrat-run government programs.
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The US/EU elites want to spread their scam to the entire world for the benefit of the Golden Billion in The Garden of Eden, i.e., the EU/US.
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However, fast-growing BRICS, with 11 members and 20 applicants, including China, India, Russia, etc., are not playing along with the the IPCC-led hoax and the multi-$trillion per year scam,
In fact, they know, it is a Western rules-based insanity, that would impoverish them.
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Comment by Dan McKay on May 10, 2024 at 2:31pm
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CMP and Versant, although not allowed to own generation like in the good old days, they must be the collection and reporting agencies for all the legislature's bonehead renewables programs, NEB, Efficiency Maine Trust, etc. They also must engineer room on the distribution system for solar project tie-ins and broker contract moneys associated with long term contracts with renewables. They often must fend off attacks by enviro- groups, renewables project sponsors, the OPA, the PUC and numbnut legislators.
I wouldn't be surprised if they are the largest employer of renewables associated jobs.
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on May 10, 2024 at 9:25am
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Senate Intel Chair Confirms CISA, FBI Have Resumed Coercing Social Media Companies to Censor the Speech of MILLIONS OF AMERICANS
Evidence clearly showed – and even Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the FBI pressured Facebook to take down the Hunter Biden laptop story – in true Fascist manner, the Feds worked with or otherwise demanded that Big Tech police the speech that they disagreed with and that went against the government’s approved party dogma.
The Supreme Court will decide in June whether the government has a right to censor speech in America in the Murthy vs. Missouri case. In the meantime, Senator Mark Warner, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, announced this week that CISA and the FBI have resumed their meetings with the far-left tech giants to remove information they deem to be misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation.
This is taking place before the 2024 election.
They’re doing it again.
Weblink for full article:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/senate-intel-chair-confirm...
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Visualizing The Tax Burden Of Every US State
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/visualizing-tax-burden-e...
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Jared Golden, Chellie Pingree Want Illegal Aliens Counted in Census
https://www.themainewire.com/2024/05/jared-golden-chellie-pingree-w...
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
******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********
(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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