GE / LM Wind Executives Knew Immediately Why Vineyard Wind Blade Broke
3. GE Vernova’s blade manufactured by LM Wind Company Canada broke off on July 13, 2024.
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4. The owner of the Vineyard Wind Farm off Nantucket did not notify anyone for several days.
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By July 24, 2024, according to a Cape Cod Times article: "During a quarterly earnings webcast Wednesday morning, GE Vernova CEO Scott Strazik brought up the July 13 incident south of the Islands. While the company has yet to finalize its root cause analysis, he reported that the investigation so far "indicates that the affected blade experienced a manufacturing deviation.""
5. Within 10 days of the blade failure GE Vernova determined the blade had a manufacturing deviation.
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6. On October 24, 2024, a radio station in Quebec reported top executives at the LM Wind Company plant ordered workers to falsify quality control data. General Electric owns LM Wind Company as a holding company.
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Comment by Willem Post on November 14, 2024 at 9:08am
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Ban the Offshore Wind Turbine FIASCO NOW
Eliminate all subsidies of any kind to all industries, etc., NOW
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Regarding the disintegrating rotor blades in Cape Cod, ultrasonic testing is fine, radiological testing is fine, but FIELD TESTING of fully instrumented, 351-ft long, rotor blades on a mast, for AT LEAST one year, in a windy area of the North Sea, is the most important and vital part, which GE executives decided to “omit”.
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These rotor blades are about three times as long as an airplane wing of a Boeing-747.
Nobody with a sane mind would ever "omit" field testing, including torsion testing.
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What were these GE top executives thinking?
How in hell did they get into these top positions?
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Then, falsifying test records to endanger people, and the environment, and ocean fauna, and fisheries, and tourism?All these are felonious offenses.
All involved should be fired and prosecuted for gross malfeasance, and blacklisted, and never again be allowed to be employed in any industry.
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Bureau of Safety and Environment Enforcement, BSEE, (what a name for a useless bureau) WANTS TO ESTABLISH FACTS ON THE GROUND (by building wind turbine projects without rotors) SO PROJECTS WILL BE HARDER TO CANCEL BY SANE PEOPLE IN EARLY 2025. Downright treasonous.
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Forcing utilities to pay 15 c/kWh, wholesale (after 50% subsidies), is gross economic insanity, plus all of us:.
– paying for grid reinforcement and extension
– paying for traditional plants counteracting wind/solar variable output, on a less than minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365
– paying for traditional plants providing electricity during low-wind (and during high-wind periods, when rotors are locked in place), and during low solar conditions
- paying owners of wind and solar systems for the electricity they COULD have produced, if not curtailed
– paying for expensive hazardous waste landfill of gigantic rotor blades, etc.
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The insanity and environmental damage it all is off the charts.
No wonder Europe’s near-zero, real-growth economy is in such big do-do
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Europe wants to foist high electricity prices onto the US (using the canard of global-warming/climate-change), so the US will be in big do-do as well, TO PRESERVE ITS EXTREMELY ADVANTAGEOUS TRADE BALANCE WITH THE US.
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Why in hell is GE, a US company, building several hundred EXPERIMENTAL rotor blades in Quebec, Canada, and have them transported, from Cape Cod to France and back, on European-owned, specialized ships, to a French blade production facility, which happens to have a suitable testing lab?
.How low and idiotic can a US company and US government go by screwing US workers out of jobs?
The Inflation Reduction Act was sold to the gullible public, because “it would create jobs in the US”
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The Socialist, Democrat cabal, using demented BIDEN/joyful HARRIS as its puppets for 4 years, did its Offshore Wind thing, and its Open Borders thing, its Woke thing, etc.All such “things” ended up screwing the American people, and fatten the treasure chest of Europe, the reason the European elites like Biden/Harris so much.
What was that traitorous cabal thinking?
Now you see why the American people finally had to take revenge by voting the cabal idiots out
.Now you see why European elites hate Trump, because Trump puts AMERICA FIRST, UNLIKE TWO-FACED RINOS, LIKE SENATOR COLLINS, etc.
Maine as Third World Country:
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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
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"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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