MassDEP Martha's Vineyard Turbines A Culture of Corruption

Political Hacks Already Set To Decide Fate Martha's Vineyard Turbine Submarine Cables They Do Not Care What You Say :

Reliable sources say the MassDEP is going to overturn the Edgartown Conservation Commission decision over two 220, 000-volt submarine electric cables in Muskeget channel.

Beacon Hill corruption is statewide. State officials making favorable decisions for wind turbine companies in the past ten years have a long history of going to work for the wind turbine industry. Even the past Attorney General Martha Coakley who ran for governor went to work for a law firm that specializes in wind turbine installations. It's a well-known fact the state renewable energy agency the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center is a stepping stone to a well-paying job in the wind industry.

To make matters worse anytime the State of Massachusetts through any of its agencies conducts research on anything to do with the wind turbine industry it's always a conflict of interest. There is never an independent study was done or any public input allowed. The so-called scientific experts or agencies used for the studies are always research groups that are heavily dependant on state grants or future grants associated with renewable energy projects.

The most glaring incidents of corruption and incompetence are the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection failures to enforce its own noise regulations over the past ten years over wind turbine noise that took health and property rights in Falmouth and twenty-one other communities.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and multiple other state agencies before the construction of the Falmouth town-owned wind turbines between 2010 and 2012 had documents that included emails, maps, memos, and a warning letter from the wind turbine manufacturer that the wind turbines were too loud near up to 99 residential homes.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection not only took no action over the wind turbine noise but also brokered a loan on the second Falmouth wind turbine despite thousands of noise complaints against the first turbine. The State of Massachusetts had all the documents on the turbines because the state was the original owner of one of the turbines.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection operates under the direction of the Executive Branch of government aka Charlie Baker the governor of Massachusetts. Governor Baker recently admitted to Congress that the land-based wind turbine projects in Massachusetts were a fiasco but has gone back to federal agencies to beg them to approve the ocean wind turbine project before all the environmental studies have been complete

Governor Charlie Baker has thrown the Fishing industry under the bus.

Here is what we know now.

The federal government continues to study the effects of two 220,000 volt alternating current electric cables going between Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard in Muskeget Channel, wind turbines and up to two massive ESP Electric Service Platforms and the socio-economic impact of wind energy development on the fishing industry.

The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Office of Renewable Energy Programs is researching the impacts of electromagnetic fields (EMF) on a variety of ocean species that are known to affect mammals. Under consideration also is the heat and noise from hundreds of miles of massive electric cables hooked up to 40 story electric service platforms prior to landfall

On July 9, 2019, the ocean wind turbine company announced it was starting its geological surveys on or about July 9, 2019.

On July 9, 2019, Chatham officials say an 18-foot-long (5.48-meter) whale that was stranded in shallow water at a Cape Cod harbor is dead, despite attempts to save the creature. Also, rescuers worked to save 14 dolphins that got stranded along the coast of Wellfleet on that same morning.

Marine Mammals since the construction of ocean wind turbines in Rhode Island are stranding in high numbers from North Carolina to Maine. NOAA has in place a “declared unusual mortality rate” for humpback whales.
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A Block Island newspaper where five ocean wind turbines were built announced in an article September 9, 2017: "Humpback whale carcass washes ashore," The news media dismissed the possibility that the ocean wind turbines contributed to the death of this Humpback whale before a necropsy was performed.

The Rhode Island five ocean wind turbine project owners asked NOAA for a federal permit to take 256 marine mammals as a result of their construction or about 50 marine mammals per wind turbine.

Seismic surveys to build ocean wind farms off Scotland's east coast in 2012 appear to have driven whales to their deaths. Seventeen pilot whales died after a mass beaching.

The US navy has admitted time after time their underwater testing to underwater sonic defense equipment coincides with the death of mammals.

The vessels mapping the ocean floor with sonic equipment is similar to the surveys done from Maryland to Maine for ocean wind turbines.

The bottom line here is money, not the environment.

The wind turbines are spaced close together and electric cables in shallow water because it's cheaper and state officials are selling the ocean environment for a political agenda that failed on land and will fail in the ocean.

Our state officials are working for the wind turbine industry, not you the taxpayer who paid to destroy the environment with your own money.