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Lie to me once, shame on you, lie to me twice, shame on me. It is an old saying and puts accountability on the gullible that continue to believe a liar. Many remember Climategate 2009 when climate “scientists” emails were leaked showing them covering up and hiding...
Solar Programs Are Driving Electricity Rate Increases Gerry Chasse is a past President of Emera Maine and retired Chief Operating Officer of Tampa Electric Company. With 34 years in the electric utility industry, he is experienced in the New England electricity...
The Maine Anchor recently had the opportunity to interview and film Jim LaBrecque, a Carbon Mitigation Specialist (CMS) and a well-known Energy advisor. He is a man passionate in his beliefs of conservation and low energy costs. On behalf of the rate payers, he is...
May 17, 2022 When big things go bad, it is seldom the result of a single event. The 2008 recession was caused by more than just the banking shenanigans known as "subprime mortgages". At the same time: The stock market was overvalued (remember the Fed Chair warning of...
I read a severe critique of the United States nuclear power industry in the July 1 Lincoln County News. Unfortunately, our nuclear power industry is in decline as new construction has stopped and our reactors age. The US nuclear industry has an enviable safety record....
Little has changed after another year of global warming headlines. All of Maine's record highs and most of the world’s Continental high temperature records remain unchanged. Maine’s record high temperature of 105°F set July 10, 1911, in North Bridgton, is now one...
According to a November 4 article in the Wall Street Journal, climate related deaths are expected to set a record low in 2021 after decreasing steadily over the past 100 years. At the time the article appeared deaths from climate related disasters were projected to be...
“Green Energy" Ain’t That Green Part II: Wind Energy By: David Deschesne & Paul Philbrick Fort Fairfield Journal November 3, 2021 Wind energy, whether it be land-based, or in the ocean on coastal regions, is considered to be one of the cheapest and least...
This is the final part of a series on the lie of green energy. A detailed look at the history of wind and solar power and how it compares against the realities of its energy output.
By: David Deschesne Fort Fairfield Journal, December 29, 2021 AUGUSTA, Maine—A report from Governor Mills’ Energy Office explores ways to coerce and cajole Mainers into purchasing electric vehicles as the Governor pursues her dream of eliminating all fossil fuel...
The following is adapted from a talk delivered on the Regent Seven Seas Mariner on June 30, 2023, during a Hillsdale College educational cruise from Istanbul to Athens. Hillsdale is often called a conservative college, and in an important sense it is, although it is not a label we regard as fundamental. The word “conservative”
The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on October 3, 2023, during a conference on “U.S. Intelligence: History and Controversies.” We need the CIA, but we also need to recognize the uncomfortable reality that the CIA is not performing at the level we require. It is not keeping us safe. It
The following is adapted from a talk delivered on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to propagandize
