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 Island to the Brayton Point brownfield site. The site has legal and permit issues.

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The offshore wind company had originally planned a route through Falmouth, Massachusetts. The old electric grid on Cape Cod is not capable of handling the load and at a June 8th, 2022 public meeting over 90 percent of those attending were against the project. The project has been postponed for over two years at the Massachusetts Energy Facility Siting Board. At some point, the Massachusetts Energy Facility Siting Board will require new notifications to the abutters of the project due to the number of years of delay.
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Falmouth also has wind turbine zoning regulations that require special permits and town meeting approvals.
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The town of Somerset appeared in district court today case number 2332CR004419 on March 4, 2024, with Brayton Point, LLC. 
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The town of Somerset, Massachusetts, according to news resources is pursuing a complaint for around  $3 million in zoning dispute fines with the company that owns the 300-acre Brayton Point property.
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The case is continued to March 19, 2024 
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Note 12 Somerset residents this past week also filed an appeal for a Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection permit issued on February 8, 2024, for the Brayton Point site. 
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Comment by Richard McDonald/Saving Maine on March 4, 2024 at 7:38pm

The awakeing begins in earnest. Soveriegnty is becoming fashionable. When we take to the streest like the farmers in Europe it will be over for our betters. 

 

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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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