{"id":55780,"date":"2024-07-22T10:49:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T14:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=55780"},"modified":"2024-07-22T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T14:49:06","slug":"before-we-continue-with-offshore-wind-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=55780","title":{"rendered":"Before We Continue With Offshore Wind Farms…"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, The Maine Wire<\/a> posted an article about an environmental disaster currently happening off of the New England coast. It’s summertime when New Englanders head for the beaches of Maine, the Cape (Cod), or the islands of Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard to cool off and enjoy the water. This year, that isn’t going to work well.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

An offshore wind turbine project operated by Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners broke apart this week, scattering debris throughout Massachusetts\u2019 coastal waters, with much of the flotsam washing up on Nantucket beaches.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since the turbine experienced a catastrophic malfunction \u2014 for reasons that are not yet clear \u2014 social media has been inundated with pictures and videos of beachgoers and government employees picking up trash bags and dumpsters full of debris.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The turbine in question is owned by Vineyard Wind US, a joint project of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners of Denmark and Avangrid, the parent company of Central Maine Power (CMP). The turbine itself was manufactured by GE Vernova, which has experienced similar failures<\/a> in the past with their offshore wind projects.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article includes the following Tweet:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The recent incident has led Leeman to renew NEFSA\u2019s calls for New England governments to slow down the push for industrial-scale offshore wind development due to their possibly disastrous consequences and potential to harm commercial fisheries.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Offshore wind turbines have long concerned fishermen and lobstermen, and not only for their effect on the environment and commercially important fish populations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The turbines are potentially dangerous for fishermen sailing in low-visibility conditions, and the chemicals they release into the ocean can contaminate their catches, significantly devaluing their products.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most recently, Vineyard Wind has claimed that the blade of the damaged turbine is sitting on the ocean floor, and company has promised to recover it \u201cin due course,\u201d without indicating a timeline for that recovery. It\u2019s unclear whether environmental remediation plans were put in place at the time the Commonwealth of Massachusetts created legal and financial incentives for the company to install the turbine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have seen the dead whales washing up on the shore. The article also notes a recent U.K. study that discovered that oysters and mussels were contaminated by hazardous fiberglass particles that can cause harm to humans. It truly is time to re-evaluate offshore wind farms and the rest of so-called ‘green’ energy.<\/p>\n

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