The commercial fishing vessel F/V Mistress, which sank during a storm near Block Island on January 1, 2019, may have been located in August 2026, resting 92 feet underwater and 50 feet from a wind turbine. The group Green Oceans is asking for an investigation. 
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A highly sophisticated all-weather MH-60 Jayhawk was sent to search for the boat but quit after 37 minutes. The physical hazards from offshore wind infrastructure, including radar clutter, can restrict rescue operations. 
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Airports in the United States average wind turbine setbacks of 3.5 miles due to radar clutter interfering with aircraft. Turning them off does not remove the physical obstacle they pose, and stopping them takes time and can disrupt local electrical grids.  
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The commercial fishing industry and maritime groups, since the Cape Wind project in 2008, have strongly advocated for two-nautical-mile-wide setbacks between offshore wind turbines.
The setbacks between the 600-foot Block Island wind turbines, including the blades, completed in 2016, are 1/2 mile. 
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After the trawler accident happened at Block Island in 2019, federal agencies on May 14, 2020, adopted a 1 nautical mile spacing rule.  A nautical mile is a little longer than a standard land mile. 
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On December 1, 2020, Vineyard Wind announced the introduction of 900-foot wind turbines, including the blades. No changes were made to the 1 nautical mile rule. (regulatory capture) 
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The balance between safety and financial costs of submarine cables regarding the 1-nautical-mile (nm) spacing and setback rule for offshore wind projects was struck through a compromise between federal regulators and wind energy developers. The federal government had a goal of more than 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030. This included funding from the Department of Interior.
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Balancing safety and financial costs refers to a fundamental engineering and economic trade-off: optimizing structural integrity, fishing boat routes, worker safety, and the general public without driving project costs to levels that destroy financial viability.
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There should never have been a balance between safety and turbine spacing. It should have been at least two nautical miles.  # Safety First   
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Comment by Frank Haggerty 7 hours ago

The MH-60 Seahawk/Jayhawk helicopter series—specifically the U.S. Coast Guard’s MH-60T Jayhawk and the U.S. Navy’s MH-60S Seahawk—serves as the premier maritime search and rescue (SAR) and combat search and rescue (CSAR) platform. Derived from the rugged Sikorsky Black Hawk airframe, it is highly optimized for deep-water rescues, extreme weather, and hostile environments. The Coast Guard's MH-60T Jayhawk) is built specifically as an designed to operate in severe environments that would ground standard civilian helicopters. Derived from the military Black Hawk framework, it is engineered to survive and operate in extreme naval, Arctic, and maritime conditions.

 

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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."

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