Posted on 01/02/2023 9:22:12 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Forty-five million dollars to address erosion at Camp Ellis. Thirty-five million for Wolfe’s Neck Farm to promote climate-friendly farming practices nationwide. Twenty million to protect vital infrastructure from the effects of climate change. Five million to aid farmers affected by PFAS contamination.
The money came from a variety of sources, for projects large and small, scattered across all 16 counties. More than $250 million for Maine projects (not all of it climate or environmental related) came in the form of earmarks in the $1.7 trillion federal spending bill passed in December.
On the energy and environmental side, research and training won big in the federal spending bill, particularly for programs aimed at training technicians for the jobs of the future, from maintaining offshore wind turbines to repairing electric cars.
Southern Maine Community College was awarded $750,000 to add more trainees to its Electric Vehicle Repair Certification program, while $2.75 million was set aside for Northern Maine Community College in Presque Isle and Maine Maritime Academy in Castine to develop an offshore wind turbine technician training program. It’s the first internationally certified training provider in the wind power industry in the Northeast.
The omnibus bill also included $3 million to establish a PFAS Research Center at the University of Maine, and an additional $4 million to help the school establish a system for tracking tick-borne illnesses and conduct public health outreach around tick-borne illnesses in rural communities.
Large solar projects in Gorham and South Berwick also got a big influx of cash as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, which passed in August, with nearly two companies, Knight’s Pond Solar and Gorham ME 1, receiving nearly $10 million each for separate projects, a 6.9 megawatt array in Gorham and a 4.98 megawatt array in South
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Countless new Solyndras.
“Maine communities will get millions to adapt to climate change”
Why should us Texans have to pay for their new air conditioners, when we have our own to pay for?
Maine has an average annual temperature of 41F and an average low temperature in winter of 12F accompanied by a lot of snow. If human caused global warming was a real phenomena it would be making Maine a more habitable place.
I’ve spent some time in the woods of Maine.
Running water and electricity would be an improvement.
Not only that, but I don’t know that sea level there (man made or not) is rising as fast as the land is (from glacial rebound.)
Coastal property up and down the Maine coast still gets premium prices—that tells you all you need to know about “climate change”.
Ignore what they say—watch what they do.
[[The money came from a variety of sources,]]
Taxpayers!
Piles of monopoly money for everyone.
Because erosion just started recently.
More garbage on top of garbage. Payoffs, paybacks, jobs for family member donors, funding for non existent problems, funding for new scam businesses like solyndra. Our reps should be ashamed of themselves but they are grafters with the hand in the cookie jar and waiting for the launder to come back
“”Taxpayers!””
Of course, that’s what we pay taxes for - BUT - as another poster pointed out to me in another thread - why is it up to the federal taxpayers to pay for these items? Why aren’t local municipalities paying for everything congress sticks in bills for US to pay for? Are there any state/city/county municipalities who do NOT TAX their citizens?
He/she made a good point - one that we certainly never hear on the floor of the House or Senate when debating these bills.
“”solyndra””
The WORD that needs to be shouted to Biden every time he opens his yap about money that NEEDS to be spent!!!!
He’d prefer to have REAL MEMORY LOSS when it comes to
S O L Y N D R A!! He was put in charge when VP of accounting for that money! We’re still waiting, aren’t we?
Meanwhile our taxes and heating oil prices are going through the roof thanks to the demented old crook in the WH.
Just wondering. When is climate not changing? Earth’s climate has been on a warming trend since the last ice age. So, when is climate not changing?
As my mother used to say …the government takes our money to pour sand in rat holes. All these millions will do nothing to change the climate and just be added to the scrap heap of failed government boondoggles.
My uncle lived along the coast in Washington County, ME. We lost him 2 years ago at 90. He was adamant that the winters are milder now than in his youth during the 1940s. He said that in recent years the small ponds were not freezing over so the kids could not go ice skating.
As i kid i used to wonder how people could afford those beautiful Maine coastal homes.
then i grew up...
“Yes, 2022 was the year that politicians in Washington and Augusta responded to the mounting climate crisis by pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into” . . . democrat pockets.
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