Maine Rep: Drop wind power; It’s time for Maine to drop this green energy pipe dream
March 8, 2024
By Rep. Reagan Paul
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Gov. Janet Mills announced Feb. 20 that Sears Island is the location where her administration will launch its long-awaited offshore wind energy project. Climate extremists were ecstatic with the news. Renewable energy lobbyists were bouncing off the State House walls. But sadly there is a clear loser here — it’s Maine’s environment.
Simply put, climate activists now represent a clear and present danger to Maine’s environment and even our livelihoods. Yes, the very people who claim to be doing everything they can to save our environment are instead doing everything they can to destroy it.
Just off Searsport, Sears Island has long been known as a place of tranquility and home to abundant wildlife, migratory birds, botanical resources and historical sites. It boasts a wealth of Wabanaki history as well as historical significance dating back to the Revolutionary War.
It is also the largest undeveloped, uninhabited island on our nation’s East Coast. This local treasure is important to the Midcoast community as a significant tourist attraction, welcoming thousands of visitors from around the globe every year.....................
............................And the windmills as tall as skyscrapers that are being proposed offshore will threaten everything from endangered right whales, piping plovers and least terns to the collapse of our fishing industry. The hypocrisy here is almost laughable.
It all has to do with this cult-like desire to attain a greenhouse gas-free environment. Well, removing 100 acres of trees certainly doesn’t help, nor does the fact that China accounts for more than 30% of all greenhouse gas emissions compared to only 15% for the U.S............................
..............................All you have to do is drive by a solar farm after a snowstorm and see every single panel covered with snow or think about steel corroding in saltwater. Billions of dollars in subsidies have been handed to solar and wind companies for inefficient and expensive energy sources that do nothing but ecological and economic harm. This isn’t complicated.
That is why I submitted LD 1549, which would direct the PUC to request information about the time, estimated cost and potential site locations for such reactors in Maine. It’s a no brainer. Unfortunately, Democrats have left my bill — mind you, a simple informational request to look into this technology — in the purgatory of unfinished business for nearly nine months.
The full piece appears at https://waldo.villagesoup.com/opinion/commentary/drop-wind-power-pu...
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Comment by Penny Gray on March 8, 2024 at 9:35am
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Until nuclear power loses its skull and crossbones reputation and money holds sway over common sense, it looks like we're going to continue destroying the planet in order to "save" it. Anyone truly worried about global warming would be fiercely pushing nuclear power, but that just doesn't happen. Instead, fortunes are being made on the "green energy" scam and our environment is being destroyed. What's waking people up are the skyrocketing electricity costs. That's changing attitudes really fast.
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Comment by Dan McKay on March 8, 2024 at 9:06am
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Ms. Paul's examination of wind and solar developments is shared by the majority of Maine people. Everyone concurs that wind and solar are simply weak, diluted and nothing but extra weight causing reliable generators to provide compensatory backup.
Attitudes in Maine are changing, we are done destroying property to place junk, experimental, useless and trashy looking contraptions everywhere.
To all the fool libtards thinking they are planet saviors, eat my carbon dioxide until you choke.
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THE MAINE PEOPLE ARE BEING SCREWED OVER AND OVER AGAIN BY AN UNSCRUPULOUS CABAL OF SELF SEEKING IGNORANT ECO WARRIORS
The only remedy is to elect Trump by a landslide, so he can quickly wipe out the harm Biden’s illegitimate cabal of usurpers did over the past 3.5 years, and close the borders at tight as a sardine can.
No one enters without documents obtained in their own country.
The US needs only people with education, and speaking/writing English, no criminal record, and about 10 years of modern work experience to be employable in the US, where they LIKELY would take away jobs from US citizens IN THE NEAR STAGNANT US ECONOMY
Maine as Third World Country:
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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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