Where will wind developers in Maine dispose of the giant wind turbine blades?
So recently we were assured the landfill problem (running out of room) was not a concern because the blades could be finely ground up. This article says that is cost prohibitive. So what is the exact plan in Maine?
August 21, 2024
Where are all the expired and busted wind turbine blades going?
By Olivia Murray
This is pretty interesting, because wind turbine blades are gargantuan pieces of equipment, some more than 400 feet in length, and on the low end, weighing 16 tons—but they’re apparently disappearing without a trace. Nobody seems to know where they’re going, and the CEOs of the industry aren’t talking.
From a report by Pat Maio at Cowboy State Daily:
Until a few years ago, it was common for old wind turbine blades to be discarded in local landfills. That’s not happening much anymore as landfills require them to be ground up ‘into really tiny pieces,’ which is expensive.
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These landfills either won’t accept the fiberglass blades or won’t return phone calls to discuss their policies. Utility companies won’t explain the working relationship with landfills and the extent of their recycler efforts.
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GE Vernova spokeswoman Treacy Reynolds declined to comment on her company’s blade recycling program. GE is a leading maker of wind turbines and has a strong presence in the blade market.
The story’s the same for a “spokesman for the billionaire Warren Buffett-owned utility giant PacifiCorp,” who “couldn’t comment”; neither could “a spokeswoman with Black Hills Energy.” Furthermore:
Cindie Langston, the solid waste division manager for the city of Casper, said that the Oil City will accept wind turbines for disposal, but ‘no wind farm operators have called us for disposal services’ in a few years.
How do you hide something like a wind turbine? Almost exactly one year ago, I wrote about the wind turbine industry turning the modest Texas town of Sweetwater into a giant landfill (out of sight out of mind right?), but where are they going now? Per the article, landfill supervisor Ryan Bechtold revealed that new rules for his landfill require the blade owners to grind the blade down into “4-inch chunks or less,” which is entirely “cost-prohibitive” meaning the blade owners aren’t seeking out Bechtold’s services. Or Cindie Langston’s apparently.
Are they sinking them to the bottom of the ocean?
The rest can be read at the following weblink:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/where_are_all_the_expi...
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Comment by Willem Post on August 24, 2024 at 7:31am
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They will be located on the beaches for kids to play with. Those blades that have torsional failures with jagged edges, they will be modified to make them suitable for play toys
Burying on site is bullshit, because th holes would be enormous and the cows grazing on the land would be dirurbed, oh, I forgot, no cows, because we will be eating insects.
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wow, Chris Cuomo was talking sense??? As for the turbine blades, they're so big they're hard to sneak around so my guess is, they're being buried on site.
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Nothing I’d cost prohibitive, if it has been labelled GREEN, the Good Housekeeping Seal
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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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