Portland Press Herald reporter John Richardson's obsequious paean to ex-governor Angus King and ex-NRCM chief Rob Gardiner would be stomach-turning if it weren't so laughable.
The X-men (Richardson gushing refers to them as "near royalty") plan to jump into the windfarm landrush currently besetting Maine. The usual platitudes are trotted out: King is "tired of talking about global climate change" and has "decided to do something about it".
The joke is, King's plan will more likely increase global warming than decrease it.
Richardson, evidently too busy fawning over the 'near royalty' to think straight, could have asked a simple question about the x-men's proposal for a 50 megawatt windfarm in Oxford county: Where are they proposing to reduce fossil fuel energy use by 50 megawatts?
For unless King and Gardiner also plan to purchase and close down a 50 megawatt coal, oil or gas burning power plant, there will be no decrease in fossil fuel consumption in Maine resulting from their windmills. King 's windfarm will simply increase the amount of energy available for consumption, making fossil energy suppliers to reduce their prices to stay competitive with wind and solar. Energy efficiency expert King knows that cheaper energy invariably results in increased energy consumption.
There will be no benefit to our climate. If anything, greenhouse gas production will INCREASE.
But Richardson is evidently a believer in the divine right of near royalty to bloviate, and declines to ask such a simple and basic question of the x-men.
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