Martha's Vineyard Ocean Turbines "Quid Pro Quo"

Common law states "quid pro quo" indicates that an item or a service has been traded in return for something of value, usually when the propriety or equity of the transaction is in question.

The ocean wind turbine company has recently created at least two jobs for Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s staff. The appearance of conflict is that at least one of the employees has strong ties to the offshore wind turbine industry. The individual helped a joint venture owned by Connecticut-based Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, to win contracts that would enable a wind farm to be built with as many as 100 turbines spinning about 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has a long history of officials working with wind turbine companies and then after favorable results of wind turbine installations, those officials are hired by the wind company. They get taken care of it's as simple as that!

MassCEC illegally financed the New Bedford ocean wind turbine port for 113 million dollars costing Massachusetts taxpayers $187,500.00 a month for 30 years and on top of that lost another 20 million in a dredging lawsuit. The port still needs dredging 5 miles out to sea has no rail link, no large walking cranes and the hurricane gates only have a legal clearance of 120 feet which do allow wind turbine jack-up barges. Another financial fiasco.

In July of 2019, the Edgartown conservation commission denied the projects two submarine electric cables after hearing concerns from local fishermen.

The state Department of Environmental Protection which is part of the executive branch of Massachusetts has since issued a superseding order of conditions in favor of the ocean wind turbine company despite safety and health issues and destruction of the Marine Environment. Governor Charlie Baker runs the agency under the executive branch. The MassDEP is stuck in regulatory capture as it used federal ARRA funds to broker a loan on the second Falmouth town-owned wind turbine which they knew prior to construction up to 200 residential homeowners would be tortured from the noise.

MassDEP gave the OK for two 200,000 volt electric cables to go through Musket Channel between Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The two 220-kV electromagnetic undersea cables would run north from the wind farm through Muskeget Channel and onto the Cape at Covell Beach in Centerville. This despite the electric cables still exposed at the Rhode Island wind turbine farm. MassDEP is working for the ocean wind turbine company, not you or the safety of your families.

The Block Island, Rhode Island wind farm is a demonstration project that has the wind turbines separated by 2600 feet each in which case during January 1, 2019, two fishermen died. Coast Guard helicopters could not reach the fishing boat in or around the ocean turbines. The fishermen want 6000 feet of separation in any new projects.

Former state senator Brian A. Joyce next in line for President of the Massachusetts state senate, once one of the state’s highest-ranking legislators, was under arrested and facing 102-page federal indictment which included wind turbine contracts. At the time of his death, Joyce was awaiting trial on 113 counts including racketeering, extortion, fraud, money laundering and tax evasion, to which he had pleaded not guilty.

How corrupt is Massachusetts? Massachusetts is in a class of its own. The last three Speakers of the House of Representatives in Massachusetts all Democrats, Salvatore DiMasi, Thomas Finneran, and Charles Flaherty, have all been convicted of felonies.

Democratic House Speaker Sal DiMasi got sent to prison for eight years on federal corruption charges. Sal DiMasi was also the father of the Massachusetts Green Communities Act that helped place commercial wind turbines in twenty-one communities.

Finally, the State of Massachusetts has released press statements that the ocean wind turbine project will lower your electric bill.

Block Island, Rhode Island residents were told their rates would drop 40 percent if the Block Island wind farm was built they lied to them.

There has never been an ocean wind farm anywhere in the world that lowered electric rates.

Taxpayers need to remember current Governor Charlie Baker was the finance czar under Governor Weld and Cellucci for the Big Dig. The financing scheme ended up costing ten times the original projections by Baker. Today Massachusetts traffic is on the brink of gridlock.

The ocean wind turbine project will result in your electric bill becoming a second mortgage on your homes and businesses