Massachusetts Saudi Arabia of Wind Turbine Power ?

The Massachusetts Legislature is pushing to enter into long-term contracts for large-scale offshore wind power projects . The proposals require your electric company to solicit contract proposals spanning 10 to 20 years gambling your electric rates and your money. Massachusetts residential and commercial electric rate payers will be liable for tens of years of offshore wind turbine project expenses.

Last week Massachusetts Senate President Stanley C. Rosenberg and Senator Marc Pacheco, the chair of the Senate’s Global Warming and Climate Change while in Denmark were informed Denmark canceled all coastal wind farms until the year 2025.

The news media and our politicians are aware of the Denmark cancellations but continue to follow the national renewable energy agenda at the expense of the Massachusetts electric rate payers.

Your home or business electric bill in the future could very well become equal to a second mortgage. The legislature doesn't care it's not their money.

The Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 requires Massachusetts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020.

The land based wind turbine projects have been an ongoing health and financial fiasco.

Who could forget former Massachusetts State Rep Mark Howland now living in Hawaii ? A consent agreement was reached with a deadline of Oct. 9, 2009, for Howland of WindTech-Co. to pay $488,000 in restitution. Howland was accused of violating the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act by misleading consumers, making false and misleading representations in promoting the sale of wind turbines, failing to install turbines paid for by consumers and providing unsafe wind turbine installations.

The wind turbine business in Massachusetts has just gone down hill every day since the inception of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. The agency is responsible for the poor siting of commercial wind turbines in Massachusetts. The agency needs judicial oversight.

Massachusetts embarked on land based commercial wind turbine projects since 2005 that have become a health and financial fiasco. Twenty one communities have poorly placed commercial megawatt wind turbines. Falmouth, Massachusetts is ground zero for poorly placed wind turbines in the United States.

Massachusetts legislators in the past told communities Massachusetts is the Saudi Arabia of wind only to have their health and residential property rights taken with no compensation.Our representatives are following a national agenda on renewable energy that puts offshore wind today above the threat of terrorism.

Lawmakers from Cape Cod and the South Coast have provided false testimony over the potential to create jobs with wind generation off the Massachusetts shore. The 113 million dollar incomplete New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal a supposed ocean wind turbine port is another financial fiasco. Massachusetts State Sen. Mark C. Montigny, D-New Bedford, in December of 2015 described the ocean wind turbine port facility to the Standard-Times editorial board as “a terminal that, if it wasn’t in my own district, I would call it nothing but a boondoggle.”

The supposed ocean wind turbine port in New Bedford is managed by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. It has bond payments being made by taxpayers of 187,500.00 a month for 30 years. The port has no large cranes, no rail link and the hurricane gates only have a legal opening of 120 feet. The largest ship to ever enter New Bedford Harbor was 80 feet wide. The channel outside the gates for 5 miles can only be used at high tide. Specialized wind turbine " jack -up " barges worldwide are 140 feet and wider. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has been unable for two years to locate a port operator.

What the Massachusetts legislature and the taxpayers have to understand is Massachusetts has no ocean wind turbine port and no jobs. The jobs are all going and have gone to Rhode Island. The Massachusetts electric ratepayers are going to be subsidizing jobs at Quonset Point, Rhode Island.

Deepwater Wind is already using Quonset Point as its staging port for its ocean wind turbines. Even Cape Wind a Massachusetts wind project was permitted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to use Quonset Point as its construction site. New Bedford was to be maintenance port with three small boats.

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. The old navy base has cranes, an airport and rail link all on site. Why would any ocean wind turbine contractor ever think of using New Bedford for its base of operations.

Offshore industrial wind turbine legislation as proposed by the Massachusetts legislature is a bunco scheme of enormous consequence. Taxpayers and electric ratepayers who value intellectual honesty should not quietly be fleeced by such mendacity, even from their elected government officials.

Massachusetts does not have an ocean wind turbine port. The Massachusetts legislature is telling us again the ocean off the shore of Massachusetts is the Saudi Arabia of wind.

Massachusetts is not Saudi Arabia