Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine
Massachusetts Wind Turbines: Harbingers of Death
Massachusetts has had two large wind turbine blade accidents in the past year. The Plymouth blade failure, and at this time last year, the Vineyard Wind blade was still hanging off a turbine. The Vineyard blade spewed 60 tons of foam, fiberglass, and microplastics over a multistate area, ending Nantucket vacations and property values.
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The news media, within days of the recent Plymouth accident, reported "experts say" this is a rare event. How quickly the wind advocates, aka the media, forget that over one hundred blades are defective on the Vineyard project. In Massachusetts, blade accidents average one per year.
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Reports say it's a good thing Plymouth wind turbines are located in a rural area, and there is nothing wrong with the cranberries in the bog. Massachusetts is the most urbanized state in the US. If the blade had gone in a different direction, it could have killed someone.
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Wind turbines in Massachusetts are known as noise machines. Neighbors report sleep disturbance, dizziness, headaches, and stress, which they attribute to the noise and low-frequency sound or infrasound. The Town of Falmouth never disclosed to residents before the installation of turbines that they were warned in writing that the turbines generate 110 decibels of noise.
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Both local, state, and federal officials prioritize the Green agenda over the health of residential neighborhoods. The state also does not maintain a dedicated, independent database for wind turbine accidents or safety. The goal of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 remains the state's primary focus.
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Offshore wind contractors spend hundreds of millions of dollars to get their permits. US taxpayers pay up to 40 percent of the project costs in renewable energy credits and another 10 percent for building ocean wind ports. The expenses incurred by the contractors are not available to the public.
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Wind companies pay fines to back out of project power agreements, donations, grants to science/research groups, political contributions, local town events, and media advertising. To put it bluntly, everybody got a bag of money.
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One example is that scientists say offshore wind construction does not kill whales, and places that do necropsies never say a whale that is deafened by offshore wind died as a result of offshore wind. The news media never ask these scientists or experts if they or their employers have ever received resources from offshore wind companies. A deaf whale is a dead whale.
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It's time to stop the wind turbine insanity. The turbines are intermittent sources of energy requiring high-voltage direct current converter stations, massive battery backup, and fossil fuel power plants.
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Massachusetts has 70 land-based wind turbines. It's time for statewide inspections before someone dies.
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Willem Post
Great article, Frank
The last thing is for more high cost wind, solar and batteries in New England
We need more CO2 ppm to increase greening of the earth, increase fauna, and increase crop yields per acre to better feed 8 billion people
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