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BOWERS PROJECT DEFEATED!!

AN EPIC FAIL FOR FIRST WIND

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court issued its decision denying Champlain Wind LLC's appeal concerning a permit for its Bowers Wind Project in Carroll Plt and Kossuth Twp. Champlain Wind is a subsidiary of Maine's largest wind developer, First Wind. The decision marks the end of a six year process of hearings and appeals which pitted the wind developer against local residents, professional guides, traditional sporting camp owners and loyal visitors to Maine's famed Downeast Lakes Region. Spearheading the opposition was the Partnership for the Preservation of the Downeast Lakes Watershed (PPDLW).

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https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/bowers-wind-project-defeated

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Willem Post commented on Willem Post's blog post The Medieval Warm Period In Germany: Inconvenient And very Real
"The Conservative and Labor elites, using the foghorn of the government-subsidized/controlled Corporate Media, brainwashed the people to vote for them, and now the people are paying though the nose, very high c/kWh, for all sorts of wind and solar…"
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Willem Post commented on Willem Post's blog post We Know How to Fix Federal Government - Will Democrat Bureaucrats Let Us Do It?
"The Conservative and Labor elites, using the foghorn of the government-subsidized/controlled Corporate Media, brainwashed the people to vote for them, and now the people are paying though the nose, very high c/kWh, for all sorts of wind and solar…"
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"The Conservative and Labor elites, using the foghorn of the government-subsidized/controlled Corporate Media, brainwashed the people to vote for them, and now the people are paying though the nose, very high c/kWh, for all sorts of wind and solar…"
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Willem Post commented on Willem Post's blog post Hornsea 4 Offshore Wind in the North Sea Cancelled By Orsted, a Danish Company
"The Conservative and Labor elites, using the foghorn of the government-subsidized/controlled Corporate Media, brainwashed the people to vote for them, and now the people are paying though the nose, very high c/kWh, for all sorts of wind and solar…"
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Willem Post commented on Willem Post's blog post Interior Secretary Warns US. at Risk of Spain-Style Blackouts
"The Conservative and Labor elites, using the foghorn of the government-subsidized/controlled Corporate Media, brainwashed the people to vote for them, and now the people are paying though the nose, very high c/kWh, for all sorts of wind and solar…"
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Willem Post commented on Willem Post's blog post We Know How to Fix Federal Government - Will Democrat Bureaucrats Let Us Do It?
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Willem Post commented on Willem Post's blog post Nuclear Scientist Says CO2 Is Not Causing Rising Global Temperatures
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Willem Post commented on Dan McKay's blog post Renewables in New England Unable to Keep Up with Natural Gas Increased Generation Rate Despite Maine Subsidies of More Than $315 Million to Renewables in 2024
"Dan, Resource mix for 2024, per ISO-NE https://www.iso-ne.com/about/key-stats/resource-mix/"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post States sue Trump over wind order (on Maine Public)
"President Trump was elected to make America "Full Spectrum Energy Dominant". To the victor go the spoils. Wind becomes an energy failure for the second time in America."
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Interior Secretary Warns US. at Risk of Spain-Style Blackouts

Interior Secretary Warns US. at Risk of Spain-Style Blackoutshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/interior-secretary-warns-us-at-risk-of-spain-style-blackouts ;BY TYLER DURDEN.Interior Secretary Doug Burgum warned the United States is at risk of suffering from blackouts that recently brought most of Spain to a halt, due too much variable, intermittent,…See More
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Hornsea 4 Offshore Wind in the North Sea Cancelled By Orsted, a Danish Company

Hornsea 4 Offshore Wind in the North Sea Cancelled By Orsted, a Danish Companyhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/hornsea-4-offshore-wind-in-the-north-sea-cancelled-by-orsted-aBy Hugh Sharman. This news today has driven a stake through the heart of Mad Miliband’s green energy plans:. Ørsted has today decided to discontinue the Hornsea 4 offshore wind project in the…See More
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post UMaine to float wind turbine despite funding suspension (What a joke this is Habib)
"UMO plays with wind while Maine Maritime Academy restores nuclear physics to their curriculum. "
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post States (including Maine) sue Trump administration for blocking the development of wind energy
"Maine subsidies to Renewables Topped $315 million dollars in 2024; all paid by Maine ratepayers."
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Willem Post commented on arthur qwenk's blog post Maine, There is Hope!! Strong Anti-Wind Candidate to Oppose Golden-None Other Than Governor LePage!!
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Politics is Downstream of Energy

Posted by Dan McKay on May 4, 2025 at 6:19am

What are the merits of renewables?

Posted by Thinklike A. Mountain on May 2, 2025 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

Who is EDPR?

EDPR, hoping to build Maine's largest wind factory in The County, likes to say they're from Texas. Click on the box above and you'll see their parent, Energias de Portugal is owned by China Three Gorges which is owned by the People's Republic of China. Protect the United States Treasury from foreign subsidy feeders and protect The County - just say NO.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Three_Gorges_Corporation

Maine Governor's Energy Office's Patrick Woodcock letter seemingly endorsing EDPR's Number Nine wind project.

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NRCM's CO2 - From A Different Point of View The PDF document at the following link put NRCM's own published CO2 information into the perspective of the Maine woods and shows the terrible tradeoff that is industrial wind in Maine.  

Putting Maine's Wind Power Goals into Proper Perspective

 

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2 Dead From Wind Turbine Blade Detachment

Wind Turbine Blade Slices Through Entire Car, Kills 2 in Grisly Accident…Continue

Started by arthur qwenk Jul 7, 2024.

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Has anyone got any research data or articles or studies on infrasound and wind turbines ?  Is it a coincidence wind developers compare turbine sound with refrigerators ? ...................................…Continue

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    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

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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."

    https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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