Media -DEP Ignoring Ocean Turbine Dangers For Political Agenda

The Edgartown Conservation Commission on Martha's Vineyard voted in July to deny the ocean wind turbine application to lay transmission cables that would pass about a mile east of Edgartown. The cables carry 220,000 AC volts of electricity each emitting heat, an electromagnetic field and noise.

Commercial fishermen questioned the adverse effects of the cables at the public hearing last month. In addition, the fishing industry is concerned over the spacing of the turbines and the power towers called Electric Service Platforms larger than an office building in downtown Boston.

The ocean wind company has asked the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection a failed state agency for a Superseding Order of Conditions to overrule the Edgartown Conservation Commission.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is facing Regulatory Capture itself as it has in the past brokered loans on the failed land-based wind turbine projects in spite of health and property rights. MassDEP arranged what Falmouth residents thought was a federal ARRA grant to build their Falmouth Wind II second wind turbine. The money was a PRA, Project Regulatory Agreement, with the state agency.

As a result of the loan MassDEP in the past ten years has never invoked its state regulations against a land-based wind turbine.

MassDEP recently held a conference call between the ocean wind turbine company and the Edgartown Conservation Board announcing the day after the public could listen in on the call by dialing a special number. The media went along with pulling the Wool over the public making the announcement the day after the call -no one heard the call.

MassDEP has no qualified people to determine the heat, noise and electromagnetic field from the electric cables but promises a result right away. The answer was known prior to the question. Questioning again the political agenda of MassDEP and the media. In addition, it may be worth mentioning the corruption on Beacon Hill. The last three Speakers of the House Massachusetts were all involved with corruption. House Speaker Sal DiMasi considered the Father of the Green Communities Act severed eight years in federal prison.

The federal government's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) delayed its environmental approval over the electric submarine cable and spacing of the wind turbines.

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The federal government continues to study the electric cables, wind turbines and up to two massive ESP Electric Service Platforms:

Socio-Economic Impact of Outer Continental Shelf Wind Energy Development on Fisheries in the U.S.

Atlantic Volume II—Appendices
U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Office of Renewable Energy Programs

Page 168
IV.i.ii Impact of Electromagnetic Fields
"Research on the effect of electromagnetic fields (EMF) on a variety of species is ongoing, following concerns regarding the behavioral and ecological impacts of submarine cables associated with offshore WEAs. Some fishes such as elasmobranchs, which include spiny dogfish and most species within the NE Skate Complex, are known to sense EMF, and other fishes including sturgeon may also be affected. "
IV.i.iii Impact of Noise
"Noise during the construction phase (e.g., pile driving) and during the operational phase (i.e., turbine vibration under operating conditions) may alter the behavior and commercially exploitable biomass of fishes in the vicinity of the developed WEAs. Research on fish hearing has been performed for more than 50 years, but large knowledge gaps in the understanding of the relationship between hearing mechanism and sound production, and its relevance to fish behavior persist"
https://www.boem.gov/ESPIS/5/5581.pdf