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Monthly Archives: December 2010
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!
This piece comes to us from our Friends across the water in the UK. We keep hearing that ‘America needs to catch up with the rest of the world.’ Well, if this is what’s happening with the rest of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, Daily Mail, Education, Friends, Global Warming, Industrial Wind, Information, Networking, UK, Wind
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Not So Fast….
Earlier this evening I posted a piece [since removed] that quoted a Sun Journal Article about the Oakfield Project [Evergreen Windpower II LLC/First Wind] being canceled, and their GE Turbines being shipped to a project in Utah. The article can … Continue reading
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Tagged Correction, DEP, Education, Evergreen Windpower II LLC, First Wind, Industrial Wind, Information, Maine, Oakfield, Permit Application, Update, Wind
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Merry Christmas
Soon enough we will all be back to covering the news and the hard information, but for today, something else. A Christmas Eve poem; written on Christmas Eve, 2010, for all of my friends. DC It was Christmas Eve Day … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Education, Friends, Gift, Industrial Wind, Maine, Poem, Poetry, Wind
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LD2283, Simplified
It seems like all I do these days is spend my time explaining why Industrial Wind Power is not a good thing, and why our laws here in Maine are in desperate need of an overhaul. Before 2008, we had … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Electric Rates, Explanation, Friends, Governor, Health, Industrial Wind, Information, Interested Persons, Laws, LD2283, Legislature, Maine, Networking, Poem, Poetry, Protest, Public Comment, Regulations, Representatives, Tourism, Update, Wind
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News From The North
The links below will take you to a very interesting Site that deals with Canadian Energy issues. The first link is to the homepage, and the second is directly to a posting [with several good comments] that discusses why Wind … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Education, Industrial Wind, Information, Links, Ontario, Wind
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Support Is Growing. Maine Businesses Should Be Preserved!
On December 16, the Partnership for the Preservation of the Downeast Lakes Watershed held a press conference. They expressed the feelings of many in this state when they asked the Governor-Elect to place a Moratorium on Grid Scale Industrial Wind … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Education, Friends, Industrial Wind, Information, Interested Persons, LD2283, Maine, Maine Professional Guides Association, Maine Sporting Camp Association, Moratotorium, MPGA, MSCA, Networking, Partnership for the Preservation of the Downeast Lakes Watershed, PPDLW, Press Release, Public Comment, Update, Wind
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Could Almost Hear The Stars
I went outside to feed the horses tonight; it was five above zero, and the night was as calm, as crisp and as quiet as a picture postcard. I looked up at Fletcher Mountain, the ridgeline that watches over me … Continue reading
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Tagged Fletcher Mountain, Iberdrola, Industrial Wind, NIMBY, Poem, Poetry, Protest, Stars, Wind
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Bowers Mountain/Champlain Wind Update
I just received the following update from LURC. It appears that they expect to have an application in hand shortly for the Bower’s Mountain Project. To be fully informed, please send an email to fred.todd@maine.gov and ask to be listed … Continue reading
Trading One ‘Dangerous’ Supplier For Another?
Even though the facts prove that very little of our electricity is produced from Middle Eastern Oil, and even thought the facts prove that Wind Developments on Maine’s Mountains will not ‘get us off foreign oil,’ or improve our National … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Education, Industrial Wind, Information, National Security, New York Times, Oil, Rare Earths, Update, Wind
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Highland Wind, At It Again…..
Today we get word that Highland Wind LLC has submitted a revised permit application to LURC for their Highland Project. No details are yet available on the LURC website, but when they are, you should be able to find them … Continue reading →