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Offshore Wind Investigation "Gold Bars" & Auto Pen

After President Trump was elected in 2024, news circulated about the Biden administration “tossing gold bars off the Titanic,” rushing to get billions of green energy tax dollars recklessly out before Inauguration Day, January 20, 2025.
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Added by Frank Haggerty on June 4, 2025 at 7:50am — No Comments

Mass Offshore Wind Energy Bills: Massive Increases

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…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on June 1, 2025 at 10:44am — No Comments

Offshore Wind Lawsuits Vs Trump 2025

President Trump signed an executive order to review offshore wind permitting and leasing, halting new project development nationwide.
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Many environmental groups, universities, and research groups have taken…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on May 18, 2025 at 10:15am — 3 Comments

Portugal / Spain Blackout: Wind Turbine Speed 5 MPH Monday, April 28

Cut-in speed: Wind turbines generate power when wind speeds are sufficient to overcome the turbine's cut-in speed, around 7 miles per hour.
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Added by Frank Haggerty on April 29, 2025 at 6:44am — 2 Comments

Environmental Groups That Took Wind Industry Money

Conflicts of Interest: 
Environmental Organizations Take Offshore Wind Industry Money…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on April 19, 2025 at 8:42am — 3 Comments

Massachusetts Failed Wind Turbine History 2025

By 2007, a former Massachusetts state legislator from East Freetown had sold residential wind turbines using renewable energy credits to residents across the state. Parts of the turbines were replaced with cheaper components, leading to failures during mild wind storms. The former state representative was fined by the Massachusetts…

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Added by Frank Haggerty on April 6, 2025 at 9:55am — 7 Comments

MA and RI Offshore Wind Power Purchase Agreements Postponed Again

Mayflower Wind, aka SouthCoast Wind, started offshore wind contracts in 2019. 
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After uncertainty over power contracts, SouthCoast Wind, a $ 5 billion project in 2023, backed out of nine agreements to sell power to…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on March 31, 2025 at 2:44pm — 3 Comments

SouthCoast Wind MA & RI Power Purchase Agreements Due March 31, 2025

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Mayflower Wind, aka SouthCoast Wind, started offshore wind contracts in 2019. 
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After uncertainty over power contracts, SouthCoast Wind, a $ 5 billion project in 2023,…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on March 29, 2025 at 8:23am — 3 Comments

Rhode Island Offshore Wind 200 MW Due March 31

A tri-state agreement for offshore power among Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut that was set for September 2024 collapsed last year. This failure established a new deadline of March 31,…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on March 21, 2025 at 9:03am — 5 Comments

SouthCoast Wind Lacks Rhode Island Permits

SouthCoast Wind power purchase contracts, Mass DPU 23-42, have been repeatedly postponed now scheduled for March 31, 2025.
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Added by Frank Haggerty on March 18, 2025 at 8:26am — 2 Comments

SouthCoast Wind Rhode Island License On Hold

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Added by Frank Haggerty on March 15, 2025 at 8:15am — No Comments

Mass DPU SouthCoast Wind Power Purchase Agreement Postponed 5 Times

New Date March 31, 2025

Long-Term Contracts for Offshore Wind Energy Generation Pursuant to Section 83C of Chapter 169 of the Acts of 2008, as Amended – D.P.U. 23-42
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Joint Petition of the…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on March 13, 2025 at 9:02am — 3 Comments

Offshore Wind A Very Poor Investment



Vineyard Wind off Massachusetts was supposed to have turbines sending power to the grid by the end of 2023. Instead, there was a bit of delay, a blade broke off, and 150 blades are defective.

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The same turbine AW 38 was recently hit by lightning. After the blade failure on July 13, 2024, the turbine was left without…

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Added by Frank Haggerty on March 12, 2025 at 10:10am — 2 Comments

SouthCoast Wind Permit 3 Days Before Trump Took Office

1. The Biden administration approved the SouthCoast Wind project on January 17, 2025, three days before President Trump took office. 
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Added by Frank Haggerty on March 10, 2025 at 7:57am — No Comments

Vineyard Wind Turbine Remains A Lightning Risk

Vineyard Wind Turbine Remains A Lightning Risk 
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On July 13, 2024, a blade broke off Vineyard Wind turbine number AW 38 dumping 50 tons of microplastics, foam and balsa wood into the ocean environment. 
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On February 27, 2025, the…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on March 6, 2025 at 6:00am — 1 Comment

Nantucket Backs Down From Offshore Wind

In 2020, the Town of Nantucket signed a "Good Neighbor Agreement" with Vineyard Wind without public input. The agreement requires the town to support several offshore wind projects.

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The payment to the Town of Nantucket is approximately 16 million, which is described as "chump…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on March 4, 2025 at 11:50am — No Comments

SouthCoast Wind Permit Process

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October 2019, Mayflower Wind won Massachusetts' second offshore wind contract. Mayflower proposed bringing cables onshore in Falmouth, Massachusetts. 
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Falmouth meeting June 2022, residents…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on March 2, 2025 at 11:26am — No Comments

Trump Fires NOAA Scientists

Many scientists argued that the claim suggesting noise from offshore wind site construction could potentially cause whale deaths was unfounded. Facts show that the Scientific groups have received substantial resources from offshore wind.

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Science is a system…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on March 1, 2025 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

GE Vernova Offshore Wind Billion Dollar Bungle

The Massachusetts Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2025 and 2030 set goals for net zero gas emissions by 2050 
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First, Massachusetts set a land-based goal of 2000 megawatts of wind power by 2020. The turbines were placed too close to residential homes…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on February 25, 2025 at 9:48am — 2 Comments

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Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

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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