Let’s start using the vast, clean and free resources of wind and solar to provide our electricity while creating good jobs for Mainers.
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Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Response to Aroostook wind proposal at odds with reality
The King Pine wind farm project compares poorly to New England Clean Energy Connect. Why all the feel-good messaging?
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Posted inBusiness, Local & State, New England, News
Northern Maine wind power project wins PUC approval
Maine utilities would buy 60% of the output from the planned wind farm, which would be the largest east of the Mississippi, while Massachusetts would pay 40% of the project costs.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Maine would buy offshore wind power in huge quantities under proposed law
New legislation would require the Public Utilities Commission to procure enough electricity from offshore wind farms to power 980,000 homes.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Gulf of Maine swath mulled as potential site for commercial wind turbines
In Portland on Thursday, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is scheduled to discuss a proposal that could allow wind-power leases on nearly 10 million acres of offshore waters.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, New England
U.S. backed offshore wind farm despite own scientists’ warning about cod
The recommendation underscores a potential environmental tradeoff of the coming offshore wind boom along the East Coast.
Posted inBusiness
U.S. offshore wind energy industry faces blowback
People in Ocean City, N.J., believe the farms damage the environment and they don’t have confidence in what is a brand new industry for the country.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Maine regulators approve wind power, transmission project
Maine regulators have approved a pair of energy projects that would generate wind power in Aroostook County.
Posted inElection 2022, Local & State
Green Divide: LePage, Mills environmental records a study in contrasts
While governor, LePage rolled back environmental regulations and stifled renewable energy in the hopes of growing the economy. Mills reversed most of these policies and embraced the state’s role as a leader in fighting climate change.
Posted inNation & World, News
Wind energy boom and golden eagles collide in the U.S. West
Golden eagles, with 7-foot wingspans, are doubly vulnerable – to the shifting climate and to the wind energy promoted as a solution to that warming world.