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What The Hell Is Wrong With This Country?
Imagine that you are out on your property, and you are approached by three Police Officers, one of them armed with an assault rifle. They tell you that you are inconveniencing a large developer [who happens to give lots and lots of … Continue reading
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Tagged Annette Smith, Assault Rifle, Battle, Dan FitzGerald, Education, Elizabeth Cooper, Freedom, Friends, Georgia Mountain, Georgia Mountain Wind, GMCW, Governor Shumlin, Industrial Wind, Information, Interested Persons, Jane FitzGerald, Legislature, Maine, Melodie Mclaine, Milton Police Department, Mountains, Networking, Permit Application, Police, Property Rights, Protest, Public Comment, Restraining Order, Right, Rights, Senator Bernie Sanders, Truth, Update, USA, USSR, VCE, Vermont, Vermont Agency Of Natural Resources, Vermont Public Service Board, Vermonters For A Clean Environment, Wind
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What’s It Worth To You?
The assault continues. First Wind and Emera go ahead with what may well be an illegal merger; Patriot Renewables is trying to buy off the local residents who appealed their Saddleback permit; Friends of the Boundary Mountains are still fighting … Continue reading
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Tagged Angus King, Atlantic Wind, Augusta, Bingham, Cianbro, Clifton, Concord, DEP, Earth, Education, Eolian, First Wind, Friends, Friends of The Highland Mountains, Gem, Goons, Highland, Highland Wind LLC, Iberdrola, Industrial Wind, Information, Interested Persons, Island Falls, Junk Yard, Laws, Legislation, Legislature, Lexington, LURC, Maine, Mayfield, Meetings, Money, Moscow, Mountains, Networking, Passadumkeag, Patriot Renewables, Permit Application, Poem, Poetry, PPDLW, Protest, Public Comment, Right, Rights, Special Places, Truth, Update, Wind
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Just A Little Inspiration
I haven’t had much time for writing on the blog lately, but I felt the need to post something useful. So below is a compilation of some of the poems that have appeared on this site over the last year … Continue reading
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Tagged Augusta, Education, Fletcher Mountain, Friends, Industrial Wind, Information, Interested Persons, Legislature, LURC, Maine, Meetings, Mountains, Networking, Poem, Poetry, Protest, Public Comment, Truth, Update, Wind
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The Ides Of March—Revisited
About a year ago I wrote the poem ‘The Ides Of March,’ which is copied below. In the introduction to that poem, I wrote these words: Mark my words, folks: We’ve got them on the run, and we ARE GOING … Continue reading
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LURCing In The Shadows
On Wednesday, December 7, the LURC Commissioners met in Lincoln. They were supposed to decide the fate, once and for all, of the First Wind/Champlain Wind—Bowers Mountain Wind Project. This is the project that is so bad, that they unanimously … Continue reading
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Tagged Bowers, Champlain Wind, Commisioner Ed Laverty, Commissioner Sally Farrand, DEP, Education, Facts, First Wind, Friends, Industrial Wind, Information, Interested Persons, Intervener, Juliet Browne, Legislation, Legislature, Lincoln, LURC, Maine, Meetings, Mountains, Partnership for the Preservation of the Downeast Lakes Watershed, Permit Application, PPDLW, Protest, Public Comment, Public Hearing, The People Of Maine, Truth, Update, 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
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Tagged Angus King, Atlantic Wind, Augusta, Bayroot, Caratunk, Concord, Cowards, Education, Eolian Energy, Eric Stumpfell, FHM, First Wind, Fletcher Mountain, Frankfort, Friends, Friends of The Highland Mountains, Governor, Highland, Highland Project, Highland Wind LLC, Hold The Line, Iberdrola, Ignacio Galan, Industrial Wind, Information, Interested Persons, Legislation, Legislature, Lexington, Liars, LURC, Maine, Maine Department Of Inland Fisheries And Wildlife, Maine Media, Maine Wind Limited, MDIF&W, Meetings, Met Towers, Mountains, Networking, Oakfield, Permit Application, Peter Vigue, Plantations, Pleasant Ridge Plantation, Plum Creek, Portland Press Herald, Power Line, Protest, Public Comment, Public Hearing, Residents, Rob Gardiner, Somerset County, Somerset County Commissioners, Tax Payers, The People Of Maine, Thieves, Truth, Unorganized Territories, Unorganized Territory, Update, Wind, Wind Ordinance, Yale University
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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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Sign The Bowers Petition
As most of you know, we recently handed First Wind their first denial, ANYWHERE, EVER, when LURC refused to permit their Bowers Mountain project, near Grand Lake Stream. You may also know that the Legislature recently passed a law handing … Continue reading →