Mass Politicians Witness Massive Offshore Wind Turbine Cuts Denmark

Mass. Sen. President Rosenberg Witnesses Drastic Wind Turbine Cuts Denmark

Wall Street Journal is reporting drastic cuts to offshore wind turbine projects in Denmark. Mass delegation may yet be unaware offshore cuts

Massachusetts Senate President Stanley Rosenberg and Sen. Marc Pacheco, the chair of the Senate’s Global Warming and Climate Change will be returning from Europe on or before June 18, 2016.The two are part of a Massachusetts delegation traveling to Copenhagen in Denmark.

The international fact-finding mission is looking at ways for Massachusetts to produce 2,400 megawatts of hydroelectric and offshore wind power.

The group left for Denmark and Sweden on June 12, 2016.

The group may well be unaware that while they were on the fact finding mission Denmark canceled its offshore wind turbine projects because of the high costs of wind turbine renewable energy.

According to a Wall Street Journal article and other news this past week the leaders in Denmark cut the wind turbine programs while Massachusetts legislature representatives were on the one week trip.

WALL STREET JOURNAL :
Danes are the latest to question the price of green-energy virtue.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/denmarks-wind-subsidy-lesson-1466105618

https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2016/06/16/denmarks-wind-subsidy-lesson/
filed: June 16, 2016 • Denmark, Editorials, U.S.

Denmark’s wind-subsidy lesson
Credit: Danes are the latest to question the price of green-energy virtue | The Wall Street Journal | June 16, 2016 | ww.wsj.com ~~

"The proposal to delay construction of some coastal wind farms will save an estimated seven billion Danish krone ($1.06 billion) over 12 years. If approved by Parliament, this would mark a welcome step toward economic and fiscal sanity."

Health Note #

Falmouth Massachusetts is the site of worst placed commercial wind turbines in the United States.

The State of Massachusetts has put commercial wind ahead of the health and financial interests of its own citizens.

Financial note #

To Massachusetts taxpayers : Massachusetts does not have an ocean wind turbine port. The New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal remains incomplete. No rail link, No cranes, No port operator, hurricane gates with only a 120 foot legal opening and a channel that needs 1 million cubic yards of material dredged outside the gates for 5 miles. The port can only be used at high tide.Wind turbine specialized "jack-up " barges do not fit in New Bedford Harbor

The bond payments are $187,500.00 per month for thirty years at taxpayer expense.

Massachusetts State Senator Mark C. Montigny, D-New Bedford, described the New Bedford ocean wind port facility to The Standard-Times' editorial board — while advocating for the offshore wind industry — as “a terminal that, if it wasn’t in my own district, I would call it nothing but a boondoggle.”

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20151218/NEWS/151219480