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Massachusetts Offshore Wind Cable Landings 3 Strikes

Falmouth   March 14, 2024 

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In 2010 and 2012 the State of Massachusetts gave the Town of Falmouth one million in renewable energy credits to purchase two commercial wind turbines that could not be sold at auction. The turbines came with a warning that each of the…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on March 14, 2024 at 8:30am — No Comments

Offshore Wind Delays Continue Massachusetts & Rhode Island

March 4, 2024 

SouthCoast Wind formerly Mayflower Wind an offshore wind contractor is leasing land from Brayton Point LLC in Somerset, Massachusetts to build a high-voltage direct current converter station to send power to the New England Electric grid. The offshore wind cables will travel underground through Portsmouth, Rhode…

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Added by Frank Haggerty on March 4, 2024 at 12:29pm — 1 Comment

New England Ocean Wind Farm Generates Power For 30K Homes Misleading

Politicians have announced a wind farm consisting of five large wind…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on February 23, 2024 at 10:34am — 4 Comments

New England Offshore Wind Renewable Energy Goal A Yellow Brick Road

New England Offshore Wind Renewable Energy Goals A Yellow Brick Road 
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Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, and Rhode Island have mandates to reduce greenhouse gas reductions. The goals are set between 2025 and 2050.
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Since 2013 around 5000 megawatts of fossil fuel plants have retired and now…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on February 19, 2024 at 9:11am — 9 Comments

Offshore Wind NO Transition Without Transmission

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New England will not achieve clean energy goals without modernizing its antique power grid and considering health and safety.
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Added by Frank Haggerty on February 1, 2024 at 11:49pm — 8 Comments

New England Offshore Wind A Shell Game

Massachusetts & Rhode Island 
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The bidding process for offshore wind in Massachusetts and Rhode Island has become hopeless for anyone who wants to make any legal public comment concerning their property or business. 
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Added by Frank Haggerty on January 24, 2024 at 8:09am — 3 Comments

HVDC Onshore Wind Converter Station Dangers

HVDC Onshore Wind Converter Station Dangers 
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Offshore wind power electric generation is going to use HVDC, high voltage direct current. High voltage direct current transmission is new in the United States. Every household in the US uses alternating…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on January 14, 2024 at 12:07pm — 1 Comment

East Coast "Close to the Wind" Summit Press Release

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Press Release: “Close to the Wind” Summit to Convene at the Hyport  Conference Center in Hyannis, Massachusetts 

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Barnstable, Massachusetts — January 4, 2024 

FOR IMMEDIATE…

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Added by Frank Haggerty on January 8, 2024 at 11:30pm — No Comments

New England Wind Turbine HVDC Converter Stations Drinking Water

Can Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut afford to allow acres of high voltage direct current converter stations near lakes, streams, wetlands, wells, and aquifers?

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These stations convert offshore wind direct current power to onshore alternating power of 220,000 …

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Added by Frank Haggerty on January 1, 2024 at 9:05am — 1 Comment

Massachusetts Clean Energy / Climate Plan 2025 Failing Again

Massachusetts Clean Energy / Climate Plan 2025 Failing Again 
 
The Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 and the 2021…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on December 22, 2023 at 3:13pm — 3 Comments

Offshore Wind Attack On Cape Cod Residential Property Owners

Five years ago offshore wind researchers proposed offshore wind cable routes by using submarine cables directly in the ocean to large cities like Boston, Providence, Fall River, and Hartford. 
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Massachusetts politicians got involved and decided to hurry the projects and save offshore wind…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on December 14, 2023 at 4:08pm — No Comments

Offshore Wind Raising The Dead Falmouth Massachusetts

File photo internet: Katharine Lee Bates, Falmouth Massachusetts …

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Added by Frank Haggerty on December 10, 2023 at 3:42am — No Comments

Offshore Wind No Bargain

1. Electric Power Purchase Agreement Contracts Failed
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In 2016 Massachusetts passed the Act to Promote Energy Diversity, allowing for the procurement of up to 1,600 megawatts of offshore wind energy by 2027. The legislation…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on November 25, 2023 at 10:13am — 2 Comments

Biden Proposes More Tax Credits Offshore Wind -Taxpayers On The Hook

President Biden has rolled out a major tax proposal that offers cash tax incentives to an offshore wind sector that’s been swamped by inflation caused by his administration.
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Biden has proposed more cash incentives to…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on November 20, 2023 at 11:21am — 3 Comments

Offshore Wind A Black Swan Event

Offshore wind is fundamentally broken…

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Added by Frank Haggerty on November 13, 2023 at 1:11pm — No Comments

Offshore Wind Slow Boiling Electric Ratepayers

Picture: Electric Ratepayers Being Sacrificed For A Failing Offshore Wind Agenda 
In 2016 the offshore wind industry sources said wind energy holds the promise of significant environmental and economic benefits. By 2023 there are…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on November 11, 2023 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Offshore Wind Turbine Agenda Continues To Fail - Whales Dying

Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result 

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In 1979 a single 2-megawatt wind turbine was installed in Boone, North Carolina. By 1981 neighbors had…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on November 10, 2023 at 10:15am — No Comments

840 MW Offshore Wind Farm Powering 400,000 Homes 24/7 Fake News

Offshore wind is being sold as 840 offshore wind turbines rated at 10 megwatts each will be enough to power 400,000 homes and businesses 24/7. The total number of megawatts of the project is 840…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on November 7, 2023 at 8:15am — 1 Comment

Offshore Wind Turbines  May Already Be Antiques

Picture: Megawatt Wind Turbine Failures Since 1979 -  Infra Sound  
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Offshore wind contractors are halting the development of massive wind projects on the East Coast due to…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on November 3, 2023 at 2:37pm — 5 Comments

Offshore Wind Power Fallacy

An entire offshore wind farm is capable of producing 800 Megawatts during peak winds of around 45 miles per hour, but once the winds are light or shift and not strong…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on August 22, 2023 at 12:35pm — 3 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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