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Dudley G. Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post Dudley Gray: So-called alternative energy has not delivered results for Maine
"The BDN mistakenly printed my piece on 03/11 and 03/13 and edited it as follows: MY Title- "more electricity price Pain" BDN Title  Alternatives failed us Para 1. I wrote-"100's of thousands of solar panels and 1000 or more…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Another solar farm in Maine has bumped into a grid capacity problem
"Arthur, Methinks you have uncovered the reason some so and so(s) want us to turnover CMP and Versant to government appointed CEOs."
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""Everything is possible when you do not know what you are talking about ".John Kennedy, US Senator Louisiana"
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arthur qwenk commented on Long Islander's blog post Another solar farm in Maine has bumped into a grid capacity problem
"Just Another Shill piece for failed Renewable Power , with only the idiots supporting the concept, and offering the solutions  that "Joe and Jill public" will be ordered to pay for ,unless they smarten up!"
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arthur qwenk commented on Long Islander's blog post Another solar farm in Maine has bumped into a grid capacity problem
"The simple solution to the  created problem, have Mainer's pay more for the "needed" transmission lines. The fake Narrative of Global Warming is coming home  to roost, in Maine, to be paid for by, well........, Mainers!"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Costs of wind production tax credits to more than double
"Europe’s Van der Leyden was in the White House to have the law changed so that battery pack supply chains sourced in Europe would be get subsidies, the same as those sourced in the US When I read that I just could not believe the U.S. would be…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Costs of wind production tax credits to more than double
"The federal government is driving us into energy poverty. The State government is driving us into energy poverty. Get local governments to start taxing these projects. "
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Dudley Gray: So-called alternative energy has not delivered results for Maine
"How bad is it ? Maine's carbon tax from 1-1-2018 to 1-1-2021 (3 years) = $30,958,534 Maine's carbon tax from 1-1-2021 to 1-1-2023 (2 years) = $46,854,799 This money, paid by Maine ratepayers goes directly to Efficiency Maine Trust, an…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Corinth becomes latest Maine town to consider solar development restrictions
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American Towns Don’t Want To Be Big Cities’ ‘Green Energy’ Graveyards

John Droz, Jr: Media Balance Newsletter: March 13, 2023

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https://election-integrity.info/Newsletter/2023/Media_Balance_Newsletter-3-13-23.pdf

 - American Towns Don’t Want To Be Big Cities’ ‘Green Energy’…

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Posted on March 14, 2023 at 4:58pm

Another solar farm in Maine has bumped into a grid capacity problem

This article comes from The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting which was founded by Naomi Schalit and John Christie in 2009.  Their website is here:

https://www.themainemonitor.org/our-history/

Solar farm hits grid capacity 

by Kate Cough | March 12, 2023

Another solar farm has bumped into a grid capacity problem —…

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Posted on March 14, 2023 at 10:59am — 5 Comments

Costs of wind production tax credits to more than double

Christine McDaniel | Mar 8, 2023 | forbes.com |

"The Costs Of Wind Production Tax Credits Provided In The IRA"

Last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was widely greeted as a landmark federal effort on clean energy and climate change. The Congressional Budget Office’s herculean task of scoring this massive piece of legislation that zoomed through Congress in an omnibus spending package was no small feat. But more recent data indicate the subsidies are…

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Posted on March 12, 2023 at 11:17pm — 2 Comments

Dudley Gray: So-called alternative energy has not delivered results for Maine

Since 2018 residential supply rates have more than doubled from 7.85 to 17.63 cents per kilowatt hour. During the same period many solar panels and wind turbines have been installed, supposedly to save Maine ratepayers costs and improve the environment. Neither has occurred. We can thank the Legislature for breaking up our two utilities at the behest of former Govs. King and Baldacci for the expedited wind law. Now Gov. Janet Mills wants to continue the damage with offshore wind. Instead of…

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Posted on March 12, 2023 at 10:30pm — 3 Comments

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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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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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