Trying to slip one by - Maine lawmakers consider public funding for electric infrastructure
Comment
-
Comment by Willem Post 8 hours ago
-
Captive Legislator Lawrence, who knows nothing about the economics of energy systems, is just a useful, sloganeering, idiot mouthpiece.
He has been fed the Kool Aid PR crap of self-serving bureaucrats and foreign and domestic wealthy elites with lucrative, Wall-Street-inspired, long-term tax shelters, which will further enrich and empower them, at the expense and impoverishment of all others.
Traitorous Democrats coddling useless, corrupt, Third World, Islamic, US-culture-destroying Somalis, etc., sucking for generations from all sorts of Democrat-government-program tits, is done by Democrats to PERMANENTLY create a reliable voting block using our own taxpayer money, will further impoverish and subjugate Mainers..
-
Comment by Dan McKay 10 hours ago
-
Frump sponsor said his bill wasn't about taking over CMP and Versant, but one wonders why Seth Berry of Our Power was there offering opinions of what should be included in this bill.
-
-
Frump sponsor also said he was agnostic to any generation resource that would flow through these transmission lines proposed with his bill. That is an out and out lie, as he stated further into his testimony that is favorite generation type was offshore wind.
He also stated that Maine was an importer of electricity, again a lie. If he had gone to the Maine Department of Energy Resources (an agency he helped to form just last year), he would see two charts. One shows the Electricity Generation in Maine, for 2024 = 14,655,177 megawatt hours. The other shows Retail Sales of Electrify in Maine(consumption) = under 12,000,000 megawatt hours. That is 2,655,177 megawatt hours of electrons defined as exports. Frump sponsor lies again.
-
-
Bait and SwitchThe frump sponsor of this bill used the old "bait and switch" from entering it as a "Concept Bill" last year March 4, 2025. This bill had no language with it until January 14, 2026 and a public hearing was quickly scheduled for January 20, 2026. Even with 10 months between concept to actual language, the first thing the frump sponsor said at the public hearing was the bill's language, as written and documented, was immaterial. To all who had written testimony, a sense of wasted effort overtook them and some soon realized that Frump was using testimony given online to fabricate a new bill. A new bill that will never have to undergo another public hearing and could be hammered out amongst the usual gatherings of regulatory(PUC, Public Advocate); Governmental Agencies (Maine Department of Energy Resources, Efficiency Maine Trust, Maine Chamber of Commerce); climate activists (Our Power led by Seth Berry, NRCM led by Jack Shapiro, The Nature Conservancy, The Sierra Club, Maine Climate Action Now). The Frump knows that CMP and Versant are willing to prove their expertise and see revenue streams and he will welcome their input.The bill is now behind closed doors( this is when the work sessions and caucuses begin) to be worked over by the elites and our betters without any annoying people who know anything started in government, moved behind closed doors and is closed off to the people who will have to pay for it, will emerge from session with the rubber stamp of all Democrats and no Republicans.I was impressed with Tanya Blanchard of Preserve Maine and her courage to vehemently oppose his bill "as was written", before the last-minute decision by the frump sponsor to toss it. She deserves all our support as the frump sponsor will probably allow her to speak at work sessions and pull all his lawyer tricks upon her.These tactics of "Bait and Switch" and conducting public hearings on bills expressly tossed aside at the last minute before the hearing, only to resurrect them after the hearing for passage is an example of an atrocious and arrogant government. This bill because it will be rewritten requires a new public hearing. This was the obvious choice that should have been made before allowing any testimony to proceed. The Vice Chair should have called off testimony and rescheduled the public hearing, but she is a Democrat too and shows her bias whenever she can.It is now apparent, the only referees to this type of disgusting maneuvering are the people and their votes.
-
Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain 18 hours ago
-
Maine Newspapers George Soros Alert
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/maine-newspapers-georg...
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/
Not yet a member?
Sign up today and lend your voice and presence to the steadily rising tide that will soon sweep the scourge of useless and wretched turbines from our beloved Maine countryside. For many of us, our little pieces of paradise have been hard won. Did the carpetbaggers think they could simply steal them from us?
We have the facts on our side. We have the truth on our side. All we need now is YOU.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"It's not whether you get knocked down: it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi
Task Force membership is free. Please sign up today!
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/
Switch to the Mobile Optimized View
© 2026 Created by Webmaster.
Powered by
You need to be a member of Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine to add comments!
Join Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine