Senate President Jackson, You Made a Fool of Yourself

Senate President Jackson stood before the EUT committee unable to answer important questions about the Northern Maine Renewable Energy Development Program. He is the sponsor of the bill that elevated this development beyond the normal agency review process that expects proposed projects must prove their viability by financial acquisitions through the private markets to construct the project and recoup their investments by sales of delivered electricity. His bill sidesteps previous legally enacted policy and goes directly to demand payment from unsuspecting ratepayers of the two Maine investor-owned utilities to pay for a regional project outside the territories serviced by these investor-owned utilities. This unbelievable forced rush upon legislators and citizens to sell the soul of rural Maine to appease the elites was definitely revealing, (the public hearing of January 11,2023 which Senator Jackson opened and was followed by speakers, some who wore suits and ties and some who wore the workingman's garb, you can probably figure out who supported the bill and who did not.)
Senate President Jackson's testimony was pathetic. He stumbled and stuttered, unable to answer simple questions about the costs, the powerline path and how much infrastructure was being proposed by his bill. This time Jackson had no gravel to hammer through his will like he did with LD 1710 " An Act To Require Prompt and Effective Use of the Renewable Energy Resources of Northern Maine" that never had any roll call votes, simply passed by dropping the gravel by Senate President Jackson. Senate President Jackson became so frustrated with his inability to sell "The Project" to the committee, he said he would seek help from other New England States to buy in. 
 
Senate President Jackson is the most underhanded legislator Maine has had in many years. He will sell Maine down the road of economic ruin to any and all buyers. The people of rural Maine are fed up with the treatment of so-called "servant protectors of the people's rights" It was so satisfying to see the people who work the land and enjoy the land in the spirit of traditional Maine speaking against this project. Maine deserves better than being a slave to the energy beasts south of the border.  

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Comment by Willem Post on January 12, 2024 at 9:49pm

Give them hell, Dan

 

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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."

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