Mass DOER - Comprehensive Energy Plan -Wind Turbine Fiasco

The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) is holding public meetings on its Comprehensive Energy Plan.

##### Mass DOER Fails To Hold Comprehensive Energy Plan Anywhere Near SE Massachusetts or Cape Cod Because of Massive Wind Turbine Health & Financial Fiasco

Boston Globe July 14, 2018 "Massachusetts residents pay the highest average retail price for power in the continental US"

https://www.bostonglobe.com/op...

The meetings present an important opportunity to urge DOER to exclude any further land-based wind development in Massachusetts.

Street address of meetings: https://www.mass.gov/event/comprehensive-energy-plan-stakeholder-meeting-2018-07-17t133000-0400-2018-07-17t160000-0400

Boston - Tuesday, July 17

Westborough - Wednesday, July 18

Westfield - Thursday, July 19

Massachusetts politicians told local residents the lifespan of a commercial wind turbine is between 20 and 25 years. The simple answer is they lied. There has always been prior evidence the turbines only lasted a few years and caused health problems back in 1975.

The NASA wind turbine project that was atop Howard’s Knob in Boone, North Carolina during the 1970s was proof of wind turbine infrasound on nearby neighbors and in 2010 the CEO of Vestas wind company responded they do not have the technology to stop the noise. The CEO of Vestas wind company in 2010 admitted their turbines do generate low-frequency noise.

In 2005 megawatt commercial wind turbines were installed resulting in a short lifespan of even as early as 5 years after catastrophic gearbox failures and oil fires.

Falmouth, Massachusetts is ground zero for poorly placed wind turbines in the United States resulting in a noise described as torture and shadow flicker from the blades. Select Board Chairwoman Susan Moran admitted the town had spent as much as $800,000.00 over eight years in legal expense. The neighbors of the turbines lost more they lost their health and life savings fighting for what they thought was the American dream their homes.

Massachusetts has faced twenty-one other communities with poorly placed commercial wind turbines all with the same horrendous problems in Falmouth.

Replacing wind turbine gearboxes and 7-ton blades have become a cottage industry with the costs being passed back onto taxpayers.

The land-based wind turbine projects in Massachusetts are a health and financial fiasco.

Now the ocean wind turbine financial fiasco:

Massachusetts politicians pushed and told taxpayers the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal was an ocean wind turbine port would cost 35 million.

Today the New Bedford ocean wind turbine terminal costs exceed 115 million dollars. The bond payments at taxpayer expense are $187,500.00 a month for 30 years. Many of the bonds and notes are questionable as to if the borrowing was even legal. Dredging lawsuits continue with dredging contractors.

It's doubtful the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal could be leased for $187,500.00 a month creating another drain on taxpayers !

The New Bedford port lacks large walking cranes and rail access remains 3000 feet from the port and the outer harbor still needs thousands of yards of PCB tainted material removed. The state after spending 115 million calls this phase two another way to hide expenses.

Our state Representatives, Senators and Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) officials need to be held accountable for the Comprehensive Energy Plan.

Time to ask questions on the wind turbine health and financial fiasco.