Nantucket Backs Down From Offshore Wind
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The payment to the Town of Nantucket is approximately 16 million, which is described as "chump change." The average cost of homes on Nantucket is nearly 3 million. Homeowners should consider how these offshore wind projects devalue their homes, turning the beaches into junk yards.
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On July 13, 2024, a blade broke off a newly installed Vineyard Wind offshore wind turbine dumping 50 tons of microplastics, foam, and balsawood into the ocean environment. The Town of Nantucket was not notified for up to two days, and parts still wash up.
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The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement conducted an investigation and never released the promised results to the public by January 15, 2025.
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It's clear to the average Jill and Joe the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement didn't release the results because President Biden was rushing to sign the brand new SouthCoast Wind permit three days before President Trump took office on January 20, 2025. The BSEE safety report would have held up the SouthCoast Wind project.
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The Town of Nantucket had issues with Section 106 of the BOEM permit, and safety questions have never been answered about the new type 351-foot hybrid offshore wind blades and future blades.
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On February 27, 2025, the same Vineyard wind turbine AW 38 was hit by lightning even though there were no meteorological events that day. Offshore wind again thumbed their nose at the Town of Nantucket, making notification more than three days later, raising questions of why a search for debris was stalled to March 2. In three days, the debris could be off the coast of Maine.
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The Town of Nantucket has no seat at the table. The Nantucket Select Board meets in executive session on March 6, 2025, to determine if they will take legal action on the BOEM SouthCoast Wind permit signed on January 17, 2025, described as the Biden administration "throwing bars off the Titanic."
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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."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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