Nantucket Set To Lose Billions To Offshore Wind

The island of Nantucket is one of the world's best international summer tourist destinations, offering a quaint English experience. Highlights include views, restaurants,  yachting, beaches, and bay scallops. A one-week trip cost over $5,000 for two people. 
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The average home conservatively is worth well over 2 million and is considered a good investment. There are around 9700 properties. Over 2000 have additional living space associated. The property values total more than 20 billion. 
That's "B" billions.      
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The worth of commercial property including the yacht clubs, restaurants, and airport is astronomical. 
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A ten percent loss of commercial and property value from failing offshore wind projects equals billions in losses. 
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Nantucket agreed to the "Good Neighbor Agreement" to support offshore wind in exchange for 16 million.
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The first project is 62 turbines. The second is 149 within 20 miles of the shore.  
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There are no noise studies to determine if over 200 turbines can be heard by island residents during warm onshore summer breezes. As an example Falmouth wind turbines less than 2 megawatts each generated 110 decibels of noise. The Nantucket ocean turbines are 7 times the size of the land-based turbines.  
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On July 13, 2024, during the construction of the first turbines, a blade broke off spewing 60 tons of microplastics, foam, fiberglass, and balsa wood into the ocean environment. The one blade ended the tourist season. 
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The prototype hybrid blade made with less carbon fiber test and certification procedure never included a one-year test in a rough ocean environment. The blade was also cut in two parts to fit in the Massachusetts test site negating torsion tests. During a torsion test pressure is placed on the entire blade until it folds. Engineers extrapolated the test data. 
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By October 25 it was disclosed up to ten percent of the 150 blades made by LM Wind Company a holding company for GE are defective. The blades are being used for the Vineyard Wind project off Nantucket. 
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News media sources report blade failure is rare and unusual. Many major blades fail one memorable is Altona, New York March 2009 blade parts scattered hundreds of feet, and more recently Gloucester, Massachusetts July 31, 2022. 
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You don't need to spend thousands on wind turbine blade studies. Go on the internet and search " turbine blade and lightning damage" or "wind turbine fire."
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The Nantucket blade failure is not a question of if it will happen again but when. 
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Comment by Frank Haggerty on November 30, 2024 at 8:55am

Landman | Tommy Explains Why Even Wind Turbines Depend on the Oil Industry (S1, E3) | Paramount https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmbZwxEnAFc

Comment by Frank Haggerty on November 28, 2024 at 10:47am

Nantucket Select  Board  Dec 4th potential letter to BOEM about mitigation- What are they waiting for?

 

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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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