Mandatory 2-Nautical-Mile Offshore Wind Turbine Spacing
The 2-nautical-mile spacing of offshore wind turbines should be mandatory. Maritime safety, commercial fishing operations, and search-and-rescue limitations require larger setbacks. Wind developers typically favor a tighter 1-nautical-mile grid to maximize financing for submarine cables.
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The past U.S. administrations set an unachievable goal of deploying 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind by 2030. Politicians overlooked facts that massive, rotating wind turbine blades would cause electromagnetic reflectivity and interference with marine vessel radar. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the U.S. Coast Guard, following the Green agenda, approved uniform layout frameworks such as the 1 NM grid layout.
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On January 1, 2019, during a storm, the F/V Mistress sank near the Block Island wind turbines. The Coast Guard spent 37 minutes searching for the boat and declared it lost. The Coast Guard MH-60 helicopter encountered radar interference and gave up.
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Recently, a group of divers from Green Oceans made a targeted dive and found the F/V Mistress 50 feet from Block Island turbine #1.
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The sinking is now politically embarrassing for two reasons:
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First, the F/V Mistress was lost in a storm with less than ten feet of visibility. The boat was equipped with standard marine radar electronics that may not have worked within the wind farm. The boat could have hit turbine #1, causing destabilization and causing it to roll over or pitch forward into a catastrophic flip.
Second, the MH-60 crew had to abandon or restrict parts of the search due to radar clutter and the spacing of the turbines.
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Documents are available; BOEM and the Coast Guard knew the boat had been at turbine #1 since 2019.
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A request was made several months ago that federal authorities reopen the marine casualty investigation into the sinking of the commercial fishing vessel F/V Mistress.
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Comment by Frank Haggerty 5 minutes ago
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A 2020 BOEM document, "OCS Study BOEM 2020-044," shows a boat on page 184, just above Figure 79, at the base of Block Island wind turbine #1.Top Page 184: "On the final day of dive survey, partial boat debris (e.g., paneling from a small boat hull) was observed around Turbine 1, but no footage was obtained."
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MISLE Incident Investigation ReportMISLE stands for Marine Information for Safety and Law EnforcementForF/V MISTRESS Sinking/Loss of LifeOn 01 Jan 2019 01:32:00 ESTPage 42 F/V Mistress Beacon # ADCD 02005944C01 @ WIND FARMDISTRESS VESSEL WAS @ WIND FARMTO ASCC : WINDMILLS IN AREAUnited States Coast Guard (USCG) terms, ASCC stands for Air Station Cape Cod
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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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