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Nothing personifies the imbecility of Governor Millstone’s clean energy campaign in Maine than investments in offshore wind. In the last 6 months we witness GE, Siemens, Orsted lose billions of tax payer $$ in recent quarters for their intermittent energy. Millstone is also planting solar eyesores along every highway jug handle that should more appropriately host wild flowers to restore our pollinator populations.

Here is a 16 November report from BBC in U.K.:” “The price paid to generate electricity by offshore wind farms has been raised by 66% as the government tries to entice energy firms to invest,” the BBC report begins, adding, “It comes after an auction for offshore wind projects failed to attract any bids…..So, the UK government and apparently the BBC want consumers to believe that a 66% increase in subsidies to wind developers to pay them to build more intermittent, unpredictable capacity with about a 25% efficiency factor in t

William Harwood, the appointed head of the Office of Public Advocate, has introduced a bill in the Maine Legislature to ban natural gas expansion in our state. This is short-sighted public policy and dangerous for Maine for a variety of reasons outlined below.

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