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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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Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post READ THIS: Maine municipalities that have enacted wind ordinances
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Penny Gray commented on Long Islander's blog post LIFE CHANGING: Lawmakers warn Aroostook residents a proposed wind farm will do more harm than good
"Vote the midterms!  Vote, vote, vote straight republican if you care about your grandkids future."
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Frank Haggerty commented on Frank Haggerty's blog post How Did Federal Regulators Overlook The F/V Mistress
"University of Rhode Island (URI) researchers were directly involved in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) study that inadvertently documented debris from the F/V Mistress years before the actual shipwreck was formally discovered.  The…"
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How Did Federal Regulators Overlook The F/V Mistress

Following the loss of the vessel F/V Mistress on January 1, 2019, BOEM funded an environmental monitoring program at the nearby Block Island Wind Farm. During the final day of a biological dive survey later in 2019, field researchers documented anomalous debris on the seafloor..The individuals explicitly tied to managing, authoring, and reviewing these specific 2019…See More
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post LIFE CHANGING: Lawmakers warn Aroostook residents a proposed wind farm will do more harm than good
"It's good to see the town organizing. Let's see how much money to buy them out will be offered."
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F/V Mistress Block Island: "Neither Confirm Nor Deny"

When official public government documents are widely circulated, and thousands have them online, only to be ignored by the government later, it points to a shift from the Green agenda to political strategy. In 2019, maritime interests argued for 2-nautical-mile spacing between ocean turbines. The Coast Guard and BOEM approved 1-nautical-mile spacing..If the F/V Mistress…See More
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Maine "leaders" societal electrification and "renewable" BS is as recklessly stupid as it is arrogant
"The unintentional consequences of "Beneficial Electrification" or a blatant attempt to takeover CMP ? Now that Bartlett has left, perhaps he can be straight up with us. Which is it, Phil?"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post Tanya Blanchard: The Northern Maine Transmission Route
"The PUC secretive process is very frustrating to landowners and electricity customers. "
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Frank Haggerty commented on Frank Haggerty's blog post F/V Mistress Time For Everybody In The Same Room
"Prominent lawmakers, including Congressman Seth Magaziner (D-RI), have publicly declined to call on the Coast Guard to reopen the case. Magaziner’s office stated that the congressman defers entirely to the Coast Guard’s established…"
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F/V Mistress Time For Everybody In The Same Room

.The F/V Mistress sank near the Block Island wind  turbines January 1, 2019 .To resolve the complex issues surrounding the F/V Mistress, a meeting in one room is needed with key stakeholders across maritime safety, news media, federal…See More
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post CMP shares northern Maine transmission route with legislators
"Is it just a coincidence that Chair Bartlett quit just last Friday? This project is led by ISO-NE in a desparate attempt to add generation to the New England grid and Barlett promoted it through his top management position in NESCOE, a group funded…"
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Heather Sanborn has a Vision: HOME INVASION

Posted by Dan McKay on October 14, 2026 at 7:43am

F/V Mistress Time For Everybody In The Same Room

Posted by Frank Haggerty on October 12, 2026 at 10:43am — 1 Comment

Block Island Wind Why Are They Hiding The Boat

Posted by Frank Haggerty on October 9, 2026 at 7:18am — 1 Comment

The Lies Just Don't Match The Facts, Hannah

Posted by Dan McKay on October 7, 2026 at 9:23am — 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.

Number%20Nine%20-%2010-22-15%20-%20Copy.pdf

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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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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    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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