Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, Speaker of the House Ron Mariano, and Senate President Karen Spilka are working hard to alter Article 97 of the Massachusetts Constitution to take local property rights from citizens to help offshore wind contractors. Article 97 establishes a right to a clean environment, including its natural, scenic, historical, and aesthetic qualities, for the citizens of the Commonwealth. 
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Offshore wind contractors have proposed placing sets of 800-megawatt cables buried under residential streets and publicly owned parks. To put that in perspective the output of the Pilgrim nuclear power plant was 680 megawatts. Offshore wind sends its power onshore as direct current, which must be changed to an alternating current for the grid. 
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There are proposals for High Voltage Direct Current Converter Stations with battery backups of over 400 megawatts. The HVDC Converter Station takes up around six acres. The power plants talking points are safe because of 30-foot noise walls, concrete containment walls, appropriate electromagnetic radiation setbacks from the public and only robots can work in the plant while it's working. 
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The simple fact is something as simple as a lightning strike can cause catastrophic damage. Once on fire, these plants and battery backs can not be put out and could take a week to burn out. If a town is dependent on the aquifer for drinking water there should be a stern warning to residents. 

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Recently a battery storage site at Moss Landing, Monterey County, California burnt for a week and Oahu, Hawaii has had wind turbine battery backup fires. In September 2021 a High Voltage Direct Current Converter Station pictured caught on fire at Sellindge in Kent, England. HVDC power plants and cables are industrial and not for residential suburban communities. 
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The wind turbine cabling could be sent to Boston by submarine cable but politicians rush to reach an already failed 2025 renewable goal. 
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The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center rushed testing the wind turbine blades made in Canada by LM Wind Company owned by General Electric. The blade did not fit in the test center. After only a few months, a blade flew off a Vineyard wind turbine. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has determined that none of the 150 blades made in Canada can be used in the Vineyard Wind project. 
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Massachusetts state politicians consistently ignore public safety risks to reach a renewable energy goal. There are no Select Boards or Town Councils that would urge their town citizens to accept these industrial power stations.  
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The bottom line is that an in-depth evacuation plan should be developed if an HVDC power plant and battery backup plant are approved near residents. 
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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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