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New Bedford -News Media Deceptions & Omissions Continue

Massachusetts -Land & Ocean Wind Turbine Health & Financial Fiasco Taxpayer Alert

New Bedford -News Media Deceptions & Omissions Continue

Massachusetts -Land & Ocean Wind Turbine Financial Fiasco Taxpayer Alert

July 28,2015

The news media talks about ribbon cutting ceremonies, completions, leases and customers when in fact the ocean terminal in New Bedford is another commercial wind turbine project totally out of control.

Falmouth, Massachusetts is ground zero for poorly placed wind turbines in the United States taking the health and property rights of our citizens.

Commercial land based wind turbine disasters started in Falmouth and today the financial fiasco continues in New Bedford.

This has all been bought and paid for by you the taxpayers through an out of control state agency the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. The MassCEC lacks any kind of legislative or judicial oversight.

Massachusetts taxpayers have to be told the truth. The deceptions and omissions over commercial wind turbines has to come to an end.

Tens of millions have been wasted in Falmouth with the poor placement of commercial wind turbines taking the health and property rights of our citizens with no compensation.

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The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center is turning Massachusetts into a police state picking whose property and health they will take next. History repeats itself again.

The City of New Bedford has an ocean wind turbine port called the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal and incomplete financial fiasco.

The ocean port for Cape Wind was already built and permitted by the federal government 5 years ago in Rhode Island . The Quonset Point location is a full service port.

To date 113 million has been spent on the incomplete financial fiasco in New Bedford. The current bond payments are $187,500.00 per month that taxpayers have to pay back for thirty years. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center the owner of the project can’t lease the port for at least the cost of the bond payments.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center is the main culprit in the poor placement of commercial wind turbines in Massachusetts and now the largest commercial wind turbine failure of all the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal.

This week starts the ten million dollar project to move an AM radio station away from the entrance of the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal which includes cleaning PCB contaminated soil.

The rail road link remains one quarter of a mile from the port being blocked by the four acre AM antenna. Tens of millions need to be spent to extend the rail link after the four acres of land is cleared at the entrance to the terminal.

The large walking / crawler type cranes were never purchased for the port. The cost of the cranes alone are in the tens of millions.

The public also needs to know that the New Bedford hurricane gates only have a legal clearance of 120 feet. Ocean wind turbine “Jack-Up” barges world wide are 127 feet and wider. They don’t fit through the gates. How much more will it take for taxpayers to wake up ? Your being ripped off !

The media has a saying : “ Our political sympathies are in general much more aligned with the progressive policies of the Democratic Party, both nationally and statewide.”

Folks, The New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal and the entire placement of land based commercial wind turbines in Massachusetts is a political bunco scheme of enormous proportions.

Out politicians through the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center with the help of the news media have taken the Massachusetts taxpayers on the ride of their lives.

We need to hold these people legally responsible for what they have done. None of this is a mistake. This is a political agenda like political agendas in the past that has gone terribly wrong.

Politicians continue taking our health and property rights with the poor placement of land based wind turbines. Today we are witness to the fleecing of the Massachusetts taxpayer building an ocean wind turbine port in New Bedford that can never accommodate the ocean wind industry.

For the sake of humanity our politicians have to see what they are doing to our citizens.

The commercial wind business is a bunco scheme of enormous consequence. The people who value intellectual honesty should not quietly be fleeced by such mendacity, even from their government officials.

Get up stand up for your rights get out and vote these people out of office. 

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