President Donald Trump - Offshore Wind Investigation

Vineyard Wind GE Vernova Blade Failure July 13, 2024, Nantucket Massachusetts USA 
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On July 13, 2024, over 6 months ago a blade broke off the Vineyard Wind project. The result is 50 tons of microplastics, foam, and balsa wood in the ocean environment. Material is still washing up in Nantucket.  
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Federal regulators from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) were due to answer questions about the catastrophic blade failure submitted by December 30, 2024. 
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The Zoom meeting was to be held on January 14, 2025. 
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Just before the January 14 meeting, BSEE postponed the public Zoom meeting until February 3, 2025, due to the number of questions received and their desire to respond. 
On January 15, 2025, BSEE canceled the February 3, 2025 meeting until further notice. (Note 1) 
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On January 18, according to the New Bedford Light newspaper, the BSEE lifted restrictions on the Vineyard Wind project. ( Note 2 )
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The restrictions were lifted two days before President Donald Trump was inaugurated. 
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The public needs answers.  On January 7, 2024, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded that Biden's moves would fail after President Trump takes office

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Comment by Willem Post on February 2, 2025 at 6:21am

The over-taxed, over-regulated, already-impoverished Maine people are super-screwed, trying to make ends meet in a near-zero, real growth Maine economy

The Maine economy has lots of low-tech/low-pay/low-benefit, bullshit jobs

The Maine economy has lots of woke, leftist bureaucrats

Screwed-over Mainers also have to pay for poverty-stricken, aliens of different cultures from all over, who illegally enter the US, a federal felony offense.

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Those illegal aliens:

- are the dregs of Third World countries, sent by their US-hating, leftist, woke governments, in cahoots with Soros-financed NGOs, to Maine.

- are getting free housing, free food, a never-empty credit card, free healthcare, free education and whatever other goodies they want. They mainly suck of the government tit

- have no skills, no training, no education, no industrial experience.

- will take low-tech/low-pay/low-benefit jobs away from screwed-over Mainers.

- are often good at crime, murder and mayhem.

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Many millions of illegal aliens have to be shipped back where they came from, before they ruin the US.

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Down-trodden Mainers often have to put up with the visual ugliness and noise of hundreds of windmills, that are often idle, because of too little wind year-round, and many thousands of acres of solar panels, that are often covered with snow and ice in winter; there is no solar at night.

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MAGA will lead to higher CO2 ppm to 1) increase growth of flora and fauna all over the world, and to 2) increase crop yields to feed hungry people. What is not to like?

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Ban the Expensive, Dysfunctional Offshore Wind Turbine Fiasco

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/ban-the-dysfunctional-...

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Net Zero by 2050 is a Suicide Pact, CO2 ppm is near its lowest level in 600 million years

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/net-zero-by-2050-is-a-...

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We Are in a CO2 Famine

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/we-are-in-a-co2-famine

Comment by Willem Post on February 2, 2025 at 6:08am

High Costs/kWh of Offshore Wind Foisted onto a Brainwashed Public

 

The three main subsidies are:

Federal and state tax credits and cash grants,
5-y Accelerated Depreciation write off of the entire project
Deduction of interest of borrowed money

 

The effect of the three items is to reduce the owning and operating cost of a project by 50%, which means electricity be sold at 50% less than it costs to produce.

Utilities pay 15 c/kWh, wholesale, after 50% subsidies, for electricity from fixedoffshore wind systems

Utilities pay 18 c/kWh, wholesale, after 50% subsidies, for electricity from floating offshore wind

Utilities pay 12 c/kWh, wholesale, after 50% subsidies, for electricity from larger solar systems

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Excluded costs, at a future 30% W/S annual penetration on the grid, the current UK level: 

- Onshore grid expansion/reinforcement, about 2 c/kWh

- Traditional power plants counteracting W/S variable output, on a less than minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365, about 2 c/kWh

- Traditional power plants providing electricity during 1) low-wind periods, 2) high-wind periods, when rotors are locked in place, and 3) low solar periods during mornings, evenings and at night, about 2 c/kWh

- W/S electricity that could have been produced, if not curtailed, about 1 c/kWh

- Importing electricity at high prices, when W/S output is low, 1 c/kWh

- Exporting electricity at low prices, when W/S output is high, 1 c/kWh

- Disassembly at sea, reprocessing and storing at hazardous waste sites, about 2 c/kWh

Some of these values exponentially increase as more wind and solar systems are added to the grid
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The economic/financial insanity and environmental damage of it all is off the charts.
No wonder Europe’s near-zero, real-growth economy is in such big do-do

 

Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

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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