News Media Bungled Vineyard Wind Ocean Turbine Reporting

Media lacks journalistic integrity spinning narratives to serve their own interest by using cherry-picked photos, taking content out of context, and or posting misleading headlines.

In the past ten years, journalism has seen a sudden shift and the overwhelming urge to promote one ideology over another. The majority of news outlets have decided to back commercial wind turbines on land and sea as their contribution to the environment. When you read stories about the Vineyard ocean wind project you have to look for what was left out of the story not what is in the story.

The method news is covered, written, reported and then edited has changed to make it possible for fake news aka only telling one side of a story for a political agenda.

Ocean wind turbine photos:

Pictures in the print media over the past month show a small fishing boat near an ocean wind turbine saying that less than a mile apart leaves the fishing industry plenty of room to continue their industry. What the media is leaving out is two ESPs, Electric Service Platforms, the height of a 40 story building with a small motel on top full of transformers, caustic oil and electric switching gear. In addition, almost 100 (one hundred) miles of electric cables go from the wind turbines to the Electric Service Platforms before they come ashore.

The electric cables and ESPs are more expensive than the wind turbines themselves. To save money the cables are placed in the shallowest quickest route to land.

There are no pictures of the ESPs and the hundred miles of electric cables on the ocean bottom putting the fishing industry out of business making them wards of the state.

Saving your electric bill money:

The media reports the Massachusetts state’s Department of Energy Resources to the Department of Public Utilities suggests the Vineyard wind project, on average, that these contracts “are expected to reduce customer’s monthly bills, all else being equal, approximately 0.1% to 1.5%.” The same media reported in December of 2012 Deepwater Wind said electricity rates on Block Island, Rhode Island would drop by 40 percent if the wind farm is constructed near the island.

In 2019 Block Island residents ask the big question will our electric bills go down at all. The electric rates never went down after the completion of the Block Island wind farm. Residents were sold a bill of goods by the media. There has never been an ocean wind turbine project in the world that saved any electric rate user money.

Harm to the marine environment:

The media reports that two electric cables capable of carrying 400 megawatts of power are safe. They report the cables in megawatts because the average reader has no idea what a megawatt is. You will not see any news story that the cables carry up to 220,000 volts of alternating current and may be used for ocean wind turbine projects further out to sea at a later date or more cables will follow in the same path. The federal government is still reviewing the amount of heat, electromagnet frequency and types of noise from the cables harming marine life.

Note# During the installation of the Rhode Island, Deep Water Wind ocean wind farm electric cables became exposed. Deep Water Wind was sold and the cables are still exposed today. Not reported by the media.

Past wind turbine reporting by the media:

The news media and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection prior to the installation of the second Town of Falmouth owned land-based wind turbine had documents that included maps, memos, emails, written warnings that up to 99 residents around the wind turbines would suffer from the two distinct types of noise from the wind turbines as they were too close to residential homes. The media has never written a story about the documents because of they back the political agenda.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection comes under the executive branch of Massachusetts. Former Governor Deval Patrick a wind turbine advocate was in charge of MassDEP. The Falmouth wind turbines were shut down by the courts in June of 2017.

Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick (D) accepted the “Green Governor of the Year Award” for his innovative environmental leadership in 2012.

They say Governor Patrick used the fake email aka ( sally.reynolds@state.ma.us ) to email wind turbine contractors to avoid FOIA, Freedom of Information Act Request. Where is the news media printing these emails so the public gets a view of what's really going on?

Lastly every day the news media spins the wheel of hate for President Donald Trump. They blame Trump for the Sun coming up every day.

Fact-checking President Donald Trump's assessment of wind power causing cancer is correct. The infrasound and low-frequency noise causes lack of sleep over long periods of time breaking down the immune system of those living near wind turbines causing all kinds of ailments leading to cancer.

Massachusetts politicians and news media witnessed the failure of Governor Deval Patrick to get 2000 megawatts of land-based wind turbines by the year 2020. The media backed program ended with about 120 megawatts or less than 5 percent of the agenda that took the health and property rights of Falmouth citizens and twenty-one other communities.

The same news media and now Governor Charlie Baker are selling you another wind turbine project only larger than the first one. Governor Charlie Baker is the chief executive of Massachusetts and is in charge of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

We are about to watch history repeat itself again on the ocean. How about just a little journalistic integrity and some truth from our state agencies that supposed to protect our health and property ?