Mass Offshore Wind Energy Bills: Massive Increases

by Frank Haggerty

Jun 1

By 2004, Massachusetts completed the Climate Protection Plan to address climate mitigation goals. 
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Politicians and the news media over the years acted as cheerleaders, reducing fossil fuel production before it could be replaced by renewable energy. The political agenda against fossil fuels required prioritizing action on a scale equivalent to a major war. 
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Governor Deval Patrick took office in 2007, requiring 2000 megawatts of land-based wind power by 2020. The land-based turbine project was a catastrophic failure. Two types of noise made people sick. The state has less than 100 megawatts of wind power. 
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As Massachusetts Attorney General in 2015, Maura Healey commissioned a study that found two new natural gas pipelines were not needed until 2030. Healey became the governor and, by 2023, ordered a transition away from natural gas. Massachusetts, according to a flawed plan, will be carbon neutral by 2025.
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Massachusetts ratepayers are now paying for expensive LNG, or Liquid Natural Gas, shipments from overseas as a result of the war on fossil fuels. Ratepayers are paying for a failed political agenda cheered by the news media. 
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Following the failures of the Cape Wind project and the land-based wind projects, Maura Healey, as of  2023, launched massive offshore wind project contracts.
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In July 2024, as Vineyard Wind construction started, an offshore wind turbine blade broke off, over 50 tons of microplastics, fiberglass, and balsa wood washed up on Nantucket beaches, reaching as far as Rhode Island. 
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The Vineyard Wind project appears to be a total financial disaster for the owners. More than likely will never recoup their investments, and pay off their loans, even if all windmills run for 20 years. They will have no return on their investments.
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Politicians and offshore wind companies are still facing the NOAA Fisheries 2016 to 2025 Unusual Whale Mortality Event along the Atlantic Coast. The whale deaths started with the Block Island, Rhode Island, offshore wind, and deaths have followed wind construction. A whale deafened by wind construction is a dead whale. 
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Gas heating customers across Massachusetts should figure out how to pay their 2026 bills, as the offshore wind agenda of net zero is a failure. 
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Governor Maura Healey has already announced plans to run for re-election. 
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Note# SMR - Safe Small Modular Reactors is the alternative to offshore wind