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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Thanksgiving 2011
For all of those who know the difference between Right and Wrong, and aren’t afraid to stand up and say so. DC Thanksgiving Day finds me, up here on my hill Looking out on a land, that is all white … Continue reading
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Tagged Corrupt System, Education, Evil, Friends, Information, Interested Persons, Maine, Meetings, Mountains, Networking, Peace, People Of Maine, Poem, Poetry, Protest, Public Comment, Right and Wrong, Rights, Thankful, Thanksgiving, Truth, Update, Wind
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Somerset County—The People Speak Out
On Wednesday, November 16, 2011, the small town of Caratunk unanimously passed a very restrictive wind zoning ordinance. Although there was no application before them, this tiny community on the bank of the Kennebec had been targeted by Maine Wind … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Michka, American Revolution, Angus King, Augusta, Caratunk, Cianbro, Community, Concord, County Commissioners, Do The Right Thing, Education, Equal Protection, Fletcher Mountain, Friends, Friends of The Highland Mountains, Governor, Governor Paul LePage, Hall of Flags, Highland, Highland Wind LLC, Iberdrola, Industrial Wind, Information, Interested Persons, Karen Pease, Kennebec Journal, Kenneth Fletcher, Landowners, Larry Warren, Legislation, Legislature, Lexington, LURC, Maine, Maine Huts And Trails, Maine Wind Limited, Mandate, Meetings, Mountains, Networking, Office Of Energy Independance And Security, Permit Application, Peter Vigue, Plantation, Press Conference, Protest, Public Comment, Public Hearing, Qatar, Residents, Rights, Rob Gardiner, Rural Maine, Somerset County, Somerset County Commissioners, Spain, Speaking Out, State House, Tax Payers, Truth, United Arab Emirates, Unorganized Territories, Unorganized Territory, Update, Voice, Waterville Morning Sentinel, Wind, Wind Ordinance, Yale University
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First Wind–Trying To Pull A Fast One
I am an Intervener in the First Wind/Champlain Wind Bowers Mountain application currently before LURC. At their Last Meeting, the LURC Commissioners voted, unanimously, to deny the permit. They instructed Staff to draw up the denial, which is to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Augusta, Bowers, Champlain Wind LLC, Commissioners, Decision, Denial, DP 4889, Education, Email, First Wind, Fred Todd, Friends, Gaming The System, Industrial Wind, Information, Insult, Interested Persons, Intervener, John Hinck, Juliet Browne, Land Use Regulation Commission, Laws, Legislature, Lose, LURC, Maine, Meetings, Mountains, Networking, Partnership for the Preservation of the Downeast Lakes Watershed, People Of Maine, Permit Application, PPDLW, Procedural Order, Protest, Public Comment, Public Hearing, Right and Wrong, Rules, Spoiled Children, Truth, Update, Urgent, Win, Wind, Withdraw, Write
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Another Win For Maine!
The good People of Rumford voted to pass a wind ordinance yesterday. This ordinance, the product of a lot of hard work, by a lot of people, has already sent First Wind packing. The destruction continues in the River Valley … Continue reading
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Tagged Angus King, Canton, Carthage, DEP, Dixfield, Education, First Wind, Friends, Industrial Wind, Information, Interested Persons, Local Control, Maine, Meetings, Ordinance, Patriot Renewables, Politicians, Public Comment, Record Hill, River Valley, Roxbury, Rumford, Saddleback, Spruce Mountain, State Of Maine, Sumner, Truth, Unorganized Territory, Update, Vote, Win, Wind, Wind Ordinance, Woodstock
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Constitution…What Constitution?
Some good folks in Vermont have been exercising their rights….Their private property rights, their rights to peaceably assemble, their rights to be secure in their persons and property, their rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness……but apparently, if … Continue reading
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Tagged Court Order, Education, Friends, Industrial Wind, Information, Interested Persons, Mountains, Networking, Protest, Public Comment, Restraining Order, Truth, Update, Vermont, Wind
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Put Up–Or Shut Up
When the folks behind Highland Wind LLC put up their first website, they said that they would not impose themselves on communities where they were not welcome. Funny, but that page is no longer available……. Eolian Energy made a similar … Continue reading →