Martha's Vineyard Wind Turbine Globalism

The first offshore wind farm financial fiasco in the United States was launched off the coast of Rhode Island’s Block Island in 2016. The cost of placing 5 wind turbines was 290 million dollars. The high voltage electric cables cost more than the turbines themselves.

Block Island residents were told they would save 40 percent on their electric rates if the turbines were installed. The electric rate users believed the reports and never got the rate cut.

The first Block Island wind turbine base was crushed during installation and later on start up a brand new gearbox had to be replaced. One out of the five turbines was defective the first day. The failure rate was twenty percent a business plan disaster.

The high voltage submarine electric cables were installed incorrectly and remain exposed to the public as today remains a looming safety issue.

An unexplained fire in July of 2016 disabled three of five engines at the Block Island Power plant, forcing the company to institute rolling blackouts for major portions of the island. Not reported by the main stream media!

The high rate of deaths of Right Whales during and after construction appears to be more than a coincidence. Wind turbines generate several types of low-frequency noise called infra-sound. Whales use frequencies to communicate and navigate.

The spacing of the turbines is 2600 feet apart in an effort to save money on the expensive high voltage electric cables. On January 1, 2019, a Coast Guard MH-60 helicopter that could operate in twenty-foot seas was unable to rescue two fishermen in or around the Block Island wind turbines. The two fishermen died and the Coast Guard who filed no incident report handed the case off to the Rhode Island police. The weather that night fog above freezing with 35 mile per hour winds.

The liberal news media heralds the Block Island wind farm as an outstanding success ? This is not journalism. This is the news media acting as the lobbyist for a political agenda gone horribly wrong.

Martha's Vineyard's future can be compared to a neighborhood in Falmouth, Massachusetts where around three hundred neighbors were tortured by noise from two town-owned Vestas 1.65 megawatt wind turbines for ten years. The liberal news media, state, and local political hacks hid documents showing the installations were a danger in which case the Massachusetts courts shut down the turbines in June 2017. Health and safety of the public were ignored for the state renewable energy agenda that caused mayhem in twenty-one other communities across the state.

Martha's Vineyard is about to entertain around 300 ocean wind turbines five times the size of the Falmouth wind turbines and up to six electric service platforms the size of a 40 story building full of transformers and capacitors hooked up to hundreds of miles of underwater high voltage submarine cables.

Massachusetts following Rhode Island playbook has released a press release that says the electric rates will go down on your electric bill after they build the first 100 wind turbines at a cost of 2.9 billion dollars. There has never been an ocean wind turbine project that lowered electric rates.

My advice to anyone on Martha's Vineyard is to sell your house now or hire a law firm later.

Get out now!

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection approved two electric submarine cables that carry 220,000 volts of electricity through Muskeget Channel between Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. The same MassDEP stuck in regulatory capture that illegally helped finance the Falmouth Wind II wind turbine with ARRA stimulus funds knowing all the while they had documents the turbines generated 110 decibels of noise each. The Edgartown Conservation Commission has denied the permit to place the electric cables because of the marine environment.

MassDEP also approved that shallow depths of these cables where they make landfall a Covell's Beach in Centerville, Cape Cod. More health and safety ignored.

The fishing industry from lessons learned at the Block Island wind farm wants 6000 feet of separation between wind turbines but the separation is costly as the electric cables are more expensive than the turbines themselves thus placing safety and health at risk.

The major maintenance issues with ocean wind turbines are submarine cable failures in which case the fishing industry will get blamed no matter what. Homeland Security will have no choice but to exclude fishing around thousands of square miles of ocean wind turbines.

If you plan a 2020 Martha’s Vineyard visit, you may want to prepare to see what the infrasound from the turbines and electromagnetic fields from the high voltage cables brings up on the beaches. The fishing boats will be gone from the picturesque harbors as wind turbines take their place. Any tourist is not going to go on vacation to look out at 300 wind turbines off in the distance along with six 40 story electric service platforms.

The beautiful beaches will soon be gone along with sport fishing and the islands a cultural history.

It's time to wake up. The ocean wind turbine contractors don't live here and are financed by consortium's in Europe. They are going to take the environmental resources all around the Island and you're going to subsidize the contractors with renewable energy credits. They are taking everything and you get nothing.

Wake Up !