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MASSACHUSETTS HAS NO OCEAN WIND TURBINE PORT
What is the New Bedford Wind Energy Center? How much money are Massachusetts taxpayers paying for this ? Payments $187,500.00 a month 30 yrs
MASSACHUSETTS HAS NO OCEAN WIND TURBINE PORT
New Bedford Wind Energy Center - NO OCEAN PORT
Massachusetts Has NO Ocean Wind Turbine Port -Concerned Citizens Need Answers
Who and What is the New Bedford Wind Energy Center ? How much money are the Massachusetts taxpayers paying for this ?
The Massachusetts general public is aware 113 million dollars was bonded by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to build the incomplete New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal. A so called ocean wind turbine port.
The terminal has been renamed several times over the past few years in an attempt to hide the massive boondoggle.
The bond payments are $187,500.00 a month for thirty years at taxpayer exspense
The port remains incomplete unleased and no port operator
There are no large walking cranes at the site and a rail remains over a half mile away
The hurricane gate only has a legal opening of 120 feet in which large wind turbine "jack-up" barges do not fit.
The channel outside the huricane gates for five miles out to the ocean needs dredging of one million cubic yards of PCB contaiminated soil.
The New Bedford ocean wind port was built for small 3.6 megawatt Cape Wind ocean wind turbines. These turbines today are small gear driven antique wind turbines. Ocean wind turbines today are three times the size of Cape Wind.
Quonset Point, Rhode Island has two 1500 foot channels to the ocean and dock space able to handle four World War battleships at a time. Deepwater Wind, Providence, Rhode Island is using Quonset Point as its base of operation.
Recently the Cape Cod Times ran an opinion piece signed by Paul Vigeant is the managing director of the New Bedford Wind Energy Center. Who is Paul Vigeant ? What is the New Bedford Wind Energy Center ?
What are they selling the New Bedford ocean port is a finacial fiasco !
What is the New Bedford Wind Energy Center ? Who are the consultants and what are we paying for ?
The New Bedford Ocean Port is another commercial megawatt financial fiasco
MASSACHUSETTS HAS NO OCEAN WIND TURBINE PORT
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New Bedford Wind Energy Center
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We are endowed with strong, reliable wind just 25 miles off our coast. It will be part of our renewable energy legacy. Learn more athttp://www.nbedc.org/wind-energy-center/
Bob Unger, the former editor of The Standard-Times of New Bedford and a consultant for the New Bedford Wind Energy Center
http://www.heraldnews.com/article/20150925/NEWS/150927174
Cape Cod Times : Paul Vigeant is the managing director of the New Bedford Wind Energy Center.
http://www.capecodtimes.com/opinion/20160504/offshore-wind-increasingly-competitive-on-cost
