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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine lawmakers consider moratorium on new data centers
"Data centers must come with their own highly efficient, clean-burning, gas-fired CCGT plants, to provide uninterrupted electricity 24/7/365 Highly subsidized, environmentally destructive, expensive, wind and solar systems that produce expensive…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Richard Silkman: Maine must not go from Vacationland to Generationland
"Silkman, how about stop making Maine people pay for Maine sited plants."
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Richard Silkman: Maine must not go from Vacationland to Generationland
"Source: ISO-NE Generator Interconnection Queue (January 2026); FERC Jurisdictional Proposals; Nameplate Capacity Ratings Notice the chart tagged: Proposed Resources by State. Silman says Maine must become Generationland" Doesn't…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Richard Silkman: Maine must not go from Vacationland to Generationland
"New Hampshire is fed up with the launch of the misguided belief that New England can go 100% renewable energy to produce electricity. They capped their renewable portfolio at 15% and are very disappointed to see their electricity rates soar higher…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Richard Silkman: Maine must not go from Vacationland to Generationland
"How can anyone from Maine want to have more wind, solar and battery junk spewed across our state? The nuclear revival age is upon us and will grow and overtake renewables because it is the ultimate renewable. Now that the C02 rule that had…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Epic 34 Minute Video: Trump rescinds endangerment finding in an announcement with EPA's Lee Zeldin — 2/12/26
"At last, Sanity!"
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Art Brigades commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine leaders pitch solutions to enhance grid as temperatures drop and electricity prices soar
"So many gadgets, so few nukes. "
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine leaders pitch solutions to enhance grid as temperatures drop and electricity prices soar
"Guess what, brother Bartlett, they build pipelines every day. It's just you who hasn't the balls to bring it to the attention to all your groups you bend a knee to."
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Environment Maine: Renewable energy accounts for 88% of new U.S. electrical capacity in 2025
"What does this mean? The Democrats have lost their minds and electricity is not affordable."
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Environment Maine: Renewable energy accounts for 88% of new U.S. electrical capacity in 2025
"Capacity, MW of windmills and panels means nothing if no wind blowing and no sun shining and snow on panels and short days and long nights"
Feb 12
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Another puff piece: New England's largest battery storage opens in Gorham
"Another example of government creating a problem and rather than reversing themselves, they will inflict ratepayers with even more costly solutions. Solar, even on the sunniest day, shuts down rapidly at sunset, at the time of day when the evening…"
Feb 12
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Paid climateer declares more wind power a solution to electricity demand during stretched of cold
"Not sure what he means by energy efficient upgrades over the years. Most people who have installed these upgrades have replaced the avoided energy with devices, over the years, to match the saved energy. Less than 1% of households in Maine use…"
Feb 11
Thinklike A. Mountain commented on Long Islander's blog post Paid climateer declares more wind power a solution to electricity demand during stretched of cold
Feb 11
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine again looks north for onshore wind, but full grid integration will have to wait
"Jack Shapiro lies again. Wind and solar get on the grid because they receive out of markets payments through renewable energy credits and investment tax credits. To get these credits they must find a way to get their output to the grid. They bid…"
Feb 10
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine again looks north for onshore wind, but full grid integration will have to wait
"Can you say Cabal?  “The directive is clear to get this line built. That is what the legislature wants to see. And we feel like we have flexibility in how to do that to maximize the benefit for Maine consumers,” Bartlett…"
Feb 10
Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Wake up Maine, wake up Maine voters: The 'Hype Phase' Of Wind And Solar Is Over
"Maine electricity comes from two markets that clash with each other to the disadvantage of the weary payers of utility bills. Entangled within the traditional market where  generators supply their output by a competitive bidding process is the…"
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Maine lawmakers consider moratorium on new data centers

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published February 16, 2026 at 8:38 AM EST

Maine lawmakers are considering a two-year pause on building large new data centers in the state.

State Rep. Melanie Sachs, D-Freeport, added the moratorium to her bill proposing a broad-based data center "coordination council" that would study benefits and risks of data centers in Maine and offer recommendations to local governments, utilities and state…

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Posted on February 16, 2026 at 7:08pm — 1 Comment

Richard Silkman: Maine must not go from Vacationland to Generationland

This of course starts off with the assumption that decarbonization makes sense. Silkman also states "Maine is where the winds are". A look at a wind map shows that statement to be untrue. It also treats Maine's climate goals as worthy which is ludicrous. Inherent in the writer's piece is the idea that wind power makes economic sense when in fact it makes none. Check your assumptions Mr. Silkman.

Richard Silkman: Maine must not go…

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Posted on February 15, 2026 at 8:30am — 4 Comments

Maine leaders pitch solutions to enhance grid as temperatures drop and electricity prices soar

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Maine leaders pitch solutions to enhance grid as temperatures drop and electricity prices soar

By Emmett Gartner

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Published on: February 13, 2026

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...............Bartlett with the Public Utilities Commission was similarly direct about the approach he believes Maine should…

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Posted on February 14, 2026 at 6:00am — 2 Comments

Epic 34 Minute Video: Trump rescinds endangerment finding in an announcement with EPA's Lee Zeldin — 2/12/26

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lpN8cuDZNw&t=1571s

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Posted on February 14, 2026 at 12:05am — 1 Comment

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At 9:10pm on June 17, 2015, Eskutassis said…

The arguments we have with those on the other side are really amazing.  I saw yours on the PPH article.  I posted one too.

At 11:13am on July 17, 2013, Peter Beckford said…

Yo Long Islander, can you do anything to give my blog post the widest audience, like emailing it on to everyone or something? Thanks a lot, Peter Beckford

We appreciate the steady diet of posts from you

At 8:03pm on July 14, 2012, Wind Scam said…
Wind Scam Artists strategies to destroy "America the Beautiful".
 
This is long, but it is worth scanning all of it. Be sure to download and search for your Reps. and Senators too. Don't forget to share with all.
This shows the backroom dealings of these wind scam artists and our politicians ramming this "Rip Off" unreliable and unproductive wind energy crap down our thro@@t.
 
Don't miss there campaign to save wind jobs that cost the American Taxpayer in excess of $8,000,000 each also, why because it come our of our wallets and purses.
Be sure to check out all their propaganda goals to destroy the Beautiful United States and make each of us pay for this destruction from "Fake Renewable Energy".
At 7:31am on February 29, 2012, Allen Barrette said…

Ok lets update Americas status first there are millions of abandoned homes from foreclosure, there is less electricity for lights,furnaces,etc. being used today  so we all can relax with the scare of congesting our grids. There is plenty of current being generated at the moment. So what steps do we take to rid our lands of the dinosaur turbines that this foreign company called first wind first and they are not from New England originally folks. The office in Boston is just a front to be what they thought was going to be action. Obama our fearless leader wants to keep this going,The wasteful spending, allowing the companies to change names as fast as the sun sets,how they do business,How they are awarded these funds I'll never understand because there is in my opinion no practical method in deciding who gets funding for these energy projects. I am disgusted at this administration, If you were working in my company I"d fire you for insubordination, you know your not suppose to use public money for your personal interests. It has to be personal because it surely is not a public interest  Shame on you ----- Got Vision           

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At 8:08pm on March 27, 2010, Mary Elen Marucci said…
HI, Ita a geodatabase I am building with two others as a project in intro GIS. Has to do with state and local ordinance rules affecting possible sites in a particular town. I enjoyed your picture gallery. Mary Ellen
At 10:52pm on March 14, 2010, Joanne Moore said…
Thanks for the link to the report. Geeze, these guys say just what industry pays them to say. Wow! The Name Norm Famous reminds me of one of the Lounge Lizards wannabe types. Very interesting to know he is the husband of Marcia Spenser-Famous. I had a sneaking suspicion he was. The name is unusual, if not famous. Heh. Another conflict of interest, ya think?
At 11:28am on January 24, 2010, Art Brigades said…
Investigative reporting.... We need to whip this beast a little better.

Interesting to read Tux Turkel's piece this morning. While his focus was narrowly on noise, and only at Vinalhaven, it surely helped puncture the huge bubble just a bit. More noteworthy than what he wrote was what he did not write.

How he could interview Hanna Pingree and NOT ask her why she withdrew her turbine noise bill is either abject stupidity or laziness. Legislators regularly rush to the statehouse with a new bill whenever a constituent says "there oughtta be a law..."

Could it be that he didn't ask the Speaker of the House (who can get anything she wants to a public hearing) why she doesn't think this is worthy of a bill, or why she isn't raising holy hell over getting a hearing???

It would be one thing if her district was Old Orchard Beach, but these are HER constituents who are under the bus!! Investigative reporting??? Please. One doesn't need to be a political veteran to know that the ties that bind among the Pingrees, Baldaccis, Adamses, and the wind mafia are very tight indeed. Turn a blind eye to a monumental calamity in your state, district, and town why? To repay political favors? Now that's a story that'll sell papers.

Turkel needs to pursue this angle. He also needs to expose the tragic economic realities of this trojan horse that has been wheeled into Maine.
 
 
 

 

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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