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Massachusetts Legislature Wind Turbine Agenda Lying By Omission
Lying By Omission: Massachusetts has shown that politicians are more willing to lie by omission that they are to tell an outright falsehood.
Today, more than 50 Massachusetts legislators have sponsored legislation that sets a goal for the state to use 100 percent renewable electricity by 2035 and 100 percent by 2050 in which citizens are considered collateral damage in the so-called war on fossil fuels.
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center helped place commercial megawatt wind turbines in twenty-one communities that have become a health and financial fiasco. The Massachusetts Superior Courts have determined the turbines are a nuisance shutting down two town-owned wind turbines in Falmouth.
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection through the legislature is involved in "Project Regulatory Agreements" that demand power production of commercial wind turbines through low or zero interest rates on wind turbine loans. The "Project Regulatory Agreements" is a direct conflict of interest of state noise regulations that are supposed to be enforced by MassDEP. The noise from the turbines is being ignored leaving those around the turbines to lose health and property rights.
Find out what's happening in Falmouthfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
The New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal a supposed ocean wind turbine port is reported by the news media as complete at 113 million dollars. The port started out in 2012 as a 35 million dollar project.
The New Bedford ocean wind turbine port is costing taxpayers $187,500.00 a month for thirty years on bond payments. The port, in addition, has a 23 million dollar lawsuit against it by the dredging company.
Find out what's happening in Falmouthfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
The ocean wind turbine port lacks a rail link and has no large walking cranes and the hurricane gate only has a legal opening of 120 feet in which wind turbine jack-up barges do not fit. A special barge is being built to fit through the gates but the channel from the hurricane gates out to sea for 5 miles still needs dredging.
Massachusetts has about the same amount of land wind turbines as Puerto Rico around 120 megawatts. The turbines are placed along the shoreline and mountains similar to Cape Cod and Western Massachusetts. The turbines in Puerto Rico were completely wiped out by one storm.
The Massachusetts legislature is now advocating massive ocean wind turbine projects forgetting about hurricane Bob in 1991 or other hurricanes that have devastated New England over the last century.
In the Massachusetts Legislature, lawmakers are actually trying to ignore what voters want. All voters want is the American Dream of health, happiness, and homeownership.
Citizens don't want massive commercial wind turbines in their backyards and incomplete never-ending ocean wind turbine port construction.
Massachusetts citizens need to look what's happened around them with the land-based wind turbines and in Puerto Rico and ask if using commercial wind turbines is the correct path for achieving 100 percent renewable energy by 2035.
Look what happened to the wind turbines in Puerto Rico -- Gone in one storm
9-22-17 Puerto Rico Wind - Solar - Cellular Structures Destroyed - Aerial
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