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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 16, 2017

I want to emphasize the importance of that, because if you look back over the past 50 years, many of our foreign policy disasters were based upon skewed intelligence, based upon the desires of the policymakers, whether it was the Bay of…

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 16, 2017

you need an IG to look at this and shine that flashlight, shine that light on those activities

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 16, 2017

I think I want to emphasize that, because there's a grave danger.

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Bruce Poliquin
@brucepoliquin· Republican · ME· Oct 11, 2017

we should not be in the luxury hotel business in Europe.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 5, 2017

Well, I think it is important too because that is a benefit that is hard to quantify, but if you add the transportation costs and the energy that is used--I like the idea of stabilizing energy prices in Maine and also stabilizing the…

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 5, 2017

I have always thought one of the important parts about pellets and this whole use of wood energy is, and you made this point, this is energy that comes from here.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 5, 2017

I have always thought of plants like yours as a kind of insurance policy because you have a more stable fuel price.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 5, 2017

That is essential, isn't it? I mean, you couldn't finance without some stable source of revenue.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 5, 2017

It doesn't have to be shipped across the ocean or----

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 5, 2017

We want to credit the Governor and the leadership of the Administration for that. I think that is a good sign.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 5, 2017

That is something that Lisa Murkowski and I have been trying to address together.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 5, 2017

Pursue federal policy parity across renewables. Biomass provides forest management services it is not compensated for and competes in an unfair marketplace in which other renewable forms of energy receive Section 45 production tax credits…

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 5, 2017

One of the interesting things about Alaska that I learned when I went to Bethel, Alaska, with Senator Murkowski, was that Alaska largely has no grid.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 5, 2017

I can't resist asking--isn't the Composites Center at the University a cool place?

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 5, 2017

So you are selling power into the grid, essentially, on a day-to-day market rate?

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 5, 2017

What we need is 106 things to do with wood fiber and new products that we have not thought about.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 5, 2017

the forest products industry in Maine is in the midst of a crisis.

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