Fishermen air concerns about floating wind turbine test site off Monhegan

Fishermen air concerns about floating wind turbine test site off Monhegan

ST. GEORGE, Maine — Locals and fishermen wondering how floating wind turbines will affect fishing grounds and the feel of their town had a chance to air questions and grievances to people behind the project this week.

“We need the resource to fish on, but we also need to be able to get to the resource,” said Richard Nelson, a 30-plus-year lobsterman based out of Friendship. “It’s a balancing act. Renewables are positive unto themselves, but as fisherman we have to be able to get to the fish.”

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Comment by Barbara Durkin on March 3, 2017 at 2:17pm

This is the engineered collapse of the fishing industry.  It's happening along the East Coast where MMS now BOEM has purview under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Section 388.  There is absolutely NO meaningful public participation in the outcome.  BOEM is in bed with industry, (as MMS quite literally), Google MMS "culture of ethical failure". 

Cable snags are a huge risk.  I was at federal public hearing by BOEM for DeepWater Wind when the feds stated that fishermen would be financially responsible for cable snags by their gear.  That's a $5 million dollar repair on average by insurance companies estimation.  BUT, the risk to public safety to fishermen was also addressed to the feds by the fishermen but the feds ignored this concern. 

The Obama EPA was a RUBBER STAMP.  Note the EPA's own words---"FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT"

Environmental Assessment/Finding of No Significant Impact

A federal agency can determine that a Categorical Exclusion (CATEX) does not apply to a proposed action. The federal agency may then prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA). The EA determines whether or not a federal action has the potential to cause significant environmental effects.  Each federal agency has adopted its own NEPA procedures for the preparation of EAs. See NEPA procedures adopted by each federal agency.

https://www.epa.gov/nepa/national-environmental-policy-act-review-p...

My comments on the Cape Wind project reveal the feds could care less about public safety threats to navigators.  The MMS, now called BOEM calculated 1.4 vessel collisions per year by introduction of Cape Wind.  Ferry operators transport 3 million passengers per year across Nantucket Sound picked by Jim Gordon of Wind Management LLC that merged with EMI to form Cape Wind Associates in a "no bid" deal with the feds, AND State of MA. 

So what if a ferry crashes into a wind turbine.  Fortunately, Cape Wind remains on paper. 

Details on risk to the fishing industry and mariners by Cape Wind, given the RUBBER STAMP-


https://www.bsee.gov/sites/bsee.gov/files/reports/reports/barbara-d...

 

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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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