"I've read enough of Willem Post's take on distributed energy aka solar, wind and batteries to know what a charade this racket Phelps Turner is pushing would cost us, if it were even possible to implement it. The guy is a dope."
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"Gateway Communities Implodes — and Governor Janet Mills Owns This Failure https://www.themainewire.com/2025/12/gateway-communities-implodes-and-governor-janet-mills-owns-this-failure/"
"Excellent analysis, Stephen, and entirely the truth. Environmentalists run on money, always money.
To stop the Aroostook Wind Development may take the intense distrust people have for Central Maine Power. Whether it is justified or not isn't…"
"To Tux, (The PPH "Energy Shill")
The fake global warming narrative, which was based on subsidy money, (our money), feeding the pockets of power shysters and corrupt politicians , from a past era, should be allowed to…"
"To Reduce the power of governement
1. Cut the numbers.
2. Cut the funding.
3. Establish common sense .
4. Fight, fight, fight the remaining deep state.
5. Incorporate the people in the cause.
6. Return the power back to the people."
" I find it curious that there isn't a peep out of all the rabid anti CMP powerline corridor widening people about the brand new virgin massive powerline corridor running through the middle of the state. How is it that the only people that…"
"Tux senses the demise of oil and natural gas use to keep the lights on in Maine is not on the horizon.
"Some people say, shut it ( Wyman Station) down. I ask them, when the temperature falls to zero, how many hours are you willing to be without…"
"The wind crap was piled high and deep, under the dysfunctional, autopen Biden regime
No one wanted to admit the windmill drawbacks, because that would rain on the Wall Street tax shelter $bullshit parade.
Comes along the Dept of War. Says the 850-ft…"
"DHHS Cuts Off Medicaid Payments to Gateway Communities as Audit Finds Over $1M in Overbilling, Fraud Allegations Escalate According to DHHS, the payment suspension was imposed because of suspected fraud, a designation that automatically triggers a…"
"House Oversight Requests Bank Records Linked to Maine Medicaid Agency, Somali Rep Dhalac State Rep. Deqa Dhalac, the former assistant executive director of Gateway Community Services, has become ensnared in a congressional investigation into…"
"Great comments, Dan
That 300 mile power line to New Hampshire is a subsidy to the moneyed elites to fatten their 25-year, no risk tax shelters.
Those tax shelters follow traditional Wall Street tax shelters structures.
With enough subsidies, you can…"
"Bartlett fails to mention that any wind project charges for Renewable Energy Certificates on top of the energy charge. The Power Purchase Agreements conducted by the PUC do not include this subsidy which can add 5 cents per kilowatt hour. The PUC…"
"All demand needs could be met easily by allowing the expansion of natural gas pipelines in New England. Bartlett is only going to fight for the Democrat's who would rather chokehold Maine electric customers. He needs to go."
"Bartlett's gaslighting is getting old. Building out transmission from the Northern tip of Maine to the New Hampshire border would be the most expensive utility endeavor that Maine ratepayers have ever funded for little more than 400 megawatts…"
"Where Is Shenna Bellows? From Ballot Chaos to Botched Plates, Secretary of State Faces Crisis of Confidence…"
"As Maine Government transitions the electric grid into so-called beneficial electrification, you will hope your home battery does not completely discharges or the government decides to drain them irrationally on a cold Maine night "
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CLF: Utility reform will be key to confronting Maine’s high energy bills | Opinion
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Regulators and utilities have a choice: stick with expensive, outdated strategies, or take proven steps to protect families.
December 29, 2025
Phelps Turner
Phelps Turner is director of clean grid at Conservation Law Foundation.
Conservation Law Foundation, our partners and our allies have long been involved in exploring modern, more affordable ways to bolster our…
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Phelps Turner
Phelps Turner is director of clean grid at Conservation Law Foundation.
Conservation Law Foundation, our partners and our allies have long been involved in exploring modern, more affordable ways to bolster our…
Posted on December 29, 2025 at 10:48am — 2 Comments
Maine Monitor: Our biggest environment stories in 2025
By Stephanie McFeeters
Published on: December 26, 2025
There was plenty of big environmental news this year: new clean energy legislation, an extreme drought that led to Maine’s worst August for wildfires in 20 years, federal funding cuts and more.
Here’s a look back at some of our coverage:
Federal policy shifts, funding cuts
One big focus of our reporting this year — in the environmental sphere and elsewhere — was on abrupt pauses and cuts to federal…
ContinuePosted on December 27, 2025 at 11:34am — 2 Comments
Maine’s energy policy looks to be going up in smoke | Tux Turkel
December 26, 2025
Tux Turkel
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.........Across Casco Bay, I see smoke rising from the 421-foot chimney at Wyman Station in Yarmouth. This power plant from a bygone era burns barge loads of polluting, climate-warming oil.
................Natural gas is a big factor. It still generates half of New England’s electricity, despite years of renewable energy expansion. It’s increasingly exported overseas, so it’s tied now to global prices. Public…
ContinuePosted on December 26, 2025 at 10:45pm — 4 Comments
Maine revives Aroostook County wind power project
Maine Public | By Peter McGuire
Published December 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM EST
Maine utility regulators are jumpstarting a major new wind power development and electric transmission line in Northern Maine.
The Public Utilities Commission released a request for proposals last week and asked private developers to submit bids for the project by the end of February.
The agency intends to build turbines that can produce up to 1,200 megawatts of electricity, enough to…
ContinuePosted on December 22, 2025 at 4:00pm — 4 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,
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
- At 11:28am on November 25, 2010, freemont tibbetts gave Long Islander a gift…
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- At 8:08pm on March 27, 2010,
- 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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