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Former Governor Deval Patrick's Falmouth Wind Turbines A Harbinger For An Ocean Wind Turbine Fiasco

Gov Deval Patrick Land Based Wind Turbines Gov Charlie Baker Ocean Based Wind Turbines
Gov Deval Patrick Land Based Wind Turbines Gov Charlie Baker Ocean Based Wind Turbines (Picture Credit: Brattleboro Reformer )

Former Governor Deval Patrick's goal of installing 3000 wind turbines across Massachusetts by the year 2020 led to a massive health disaster in Falmouth and twenty-one other communities. The only ones to make money were the Beacon Hill attorneys they knew they were too loud before they were installed.

The land-based wind turbine fiasco ended any hopes of Deval Patrick aka (sally.reynolds@state.ma.us) of being a Presidential hopefull

Now just like Deval Patrick after the failed land-based wind turbine screw-up the new Governor Charlie Baker in 2016 signed a law that requires 3,200 megawatts of ocean wind turbine power by 2035. Sound familiar?

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Lying by omission is when a person leaves out important information or fails to correct a pre-existing misconception in order to hide the truth from others.

Governor Charlie Baker, the legislature and news media is telling citizens the new ocean wind turbine project off Martha's Vineyard will produce enough energy to power 400,000 homes enough to replace a land-based power plant. The problem with this is if there's not enough wind there is no power and if the wind speeds go to high the brakes go on in the wind turbines!

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They want to place two 220,000 volt electric cables in Muskeget Channel's fish-rich waters between Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket with drifting sand bars as high as 16 feet. The state left out the major problem with ocean wind turbines is the submarine cables. The Deepwater, Rhode Island ocean wind turbine was installed incorrectly and remains exposed years after the completion of the project!

The average citizen is unaware of the amounts of oil, transmission fluid and hazardous material held inside these turbines. The Electric Service Platform full of all kinds of caustic material is tall as a ten-story building. How much oil is in that?

The news media touts thousands of jobs from the ocean wind project but the project is being done by a foreign company with foreign investors the good jobs go to their companies. The news media would have you think all the people on the fishing boats are going to run tour guides in between the wind turbines.

These foreign companies are taking our renewable energy tax credits and our environmental resources and you get a higher electric bill.

Block Island, Rhode Island electric customers were told they would get a 40 percent reduction in their electric bill if they voted for the ocean wind project, They got nothing!

They continue to ignore the two types of noise infra-sound or low frequency and the noise measured in decibels. Marine life including Right Whales uses frequencies to communicate and travel. What would over 100 ocean wind turbine rated at 10 megawatts each do to destroy the marine environment along with the frequencies of hundreds of miles of electric submarine cables hooked up from the wind turbines to the ESP, Electric Service Platform then onto the mainland?

The Fishing industry has complained about the spacing of the wind turbines they want 6000 feet apart.

On January 1, 2019, a fishing boat in 35 miles per hour wind began taking on water in or around the 500 foot Block Island, RI ocean wind turbine farm. A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter was unable to reach the fishing boat in which two died. On the other hand, recently Jayhawk helicopter crews from the U.S. Coast Guard landed on the Abaco Islands, in the Bahamas as Hurricane Dorian was still near the area. It's obvious the Coast Guard could not operate inside the Block Island wind farm as those turbines are spaced 2600 feet apart far too close.

The news media is full of political bias and placed the credibility of dozens of major news outlets in jeopardy.

The news media is pushing the ocean wind turbine project just like they pushed the land-based wind project that took the health and property of citizens for a failed wind agenda

Today when you read your local paper you have to ask what they omitted from the story not what is in it.

For the truth :

Please Watch The Fishermen's Meeting - Edgartown Conservation Commission 6.27.19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGCAQdo7bv0&feature=youtu.be

Please Watch The Fishermen's Meeting - Edgartown Conservation Commission 6.27.19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGCAQdo7bv0&feature=youtu.be


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