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NEWS MEDIA CREDIBILITY GONE OVER COMMERCIAL WIND TURBINES
News Media Partners : Massachusetts Government Officials New Bedford Port Partners With News Media
News Media Partners : Massachusetts Government Officials
New Bedford Port Partners With News Media
January 28, 2015
Journalist have allowed themselves to become part of an essential act of corruption. The news media themselves have become partners with corporations and political groups.
The New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal needs to be exposed and brought to the light of day.
The poor placement of land based commercial wind turbines taking the health and property rights of citizens has finally entered the court systems and public opinion has swayed against the poor placement of commercial wind turbines. The legal actions against the poor placement of commercial wind turbines in residential neighborhoods is taking place despite the news media portraying abutters to commercial wind turbines as loud obnoxious not in my back yard out of control residents.
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has admitted that placed commercial land based wind turbines “Ad Hoc.”
New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal construction and lease questions are now being protected by the news media again just like the poor placement of land based wind turbines.This time the ocean wind turbine port is taking hundreds of millions of dollars from unsuspecting Massachusetts taxpayers.
The news media needs to take credit for the lack of investigative journalism and the failure to inform the public over the massive renewable energy failures in Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center is the owner of the ongoing New Bedford ocean wind turbine port massive financial failure. The news media continues reports of multiple conflicting reports about the terminal. The public is probably unaware that at one time one large news media organization owned land at the New Bedford ocean wind turbine port prior to the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center taking over the construction project.
The New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal estimated to cost 35 million by Governor Patrick in 2010 has turned into one of the second largest financial fiasco in Massachusetts history. Massachusetts residents are well aware of the “Big Dig” fiasco and the financial fallout from the project.
Massachusetts Gov Charley Baker announced a budget deficit of 764 million dollars from former Governor Patrick while hundreds of millions of dollars of borrowed state taxpayer funds are still being dumped into New Bedford Harbor today. The renewable energy failures of Evergreen Solar, Charlestown wind blade testing site and the New Bedford ocean port account for a major portion of the Massachusetts debt.
The New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal project sits today incomplete at 124 million dollars. The project has had its name changed on an almost weekly basis to hide the ongoing fiasco from taxpayers.
No one really knows the name of the terminal and no one has ever seen the lease between Cape Wind and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center who is the owner of the ill fated ocean port.
The news media reports a 4.5 million dollar lease at $187,500.00 per month to Cape Wind. The terminal remains incomplete today. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center says the port is a multiple use port while Siemens wind company has stated that it needs 24/7 access to the entire port.
Folks, Things don’t add up.In May of 2013 Richard Sullivan former Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs testified to a state bonding committee that he was 100 percent sure Cape Wind would build and construct its wind turbines in New Bedford. At that time Cape Wind never has a permit from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to construct turbines in New Bedford. The taxpayers of Massachusetts through the bonding committee issued a 100 million dollar bond.
The ocean terminal has only a 120 foot legal width clearance at the hurricane gate, No rail link, an AM radio antenna that needs to be moved at taxpayers expense, a federal channel outside the gates not dredged , No cranes and needs more of your tax dollars for an ocean wind turbine port that was already built at Quonset Point, Rhode Island.
The EPA still needs to move one million cubic yards of toxic soil in New Bedford Harbor.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has never issued a federal permit to build and assemble commercial wind turbines at the incomplete New Bedford . The Army Corps of Engineers won’t certify the dredging inside New Bedford Harbor until after March 15, 2015.
Folks here are a few quotes from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center RFP, Request for Proposals for the New Bedford port.
Massachusetts taxpayers should be demanding answers ....
“The selected Terminal Operator and Cape Wind may agree to modify their respective roles and responsibilities.”
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Posting Date: December 22, 2014 TERMINAL OPERATOR – MARINE COMMERCE TERMINAL in NEW BEDFORD
Page 2
“Respondents to this RFP should be aware that MassCEC has previously entered into an agreement with Cape Wind Associates, LLC (“Cape Wind”) through which Cape Wind leases the Terminal from MassCEC (the “Cape Wind Lease”). Pursuant to this agreement, Cape Wind assumes all responsibility for operating and managing the Terminal and has exclusive use of the Terminal for the construction, assembly, and deployment of a wind energy facility in Nantucket Sound (the “Cape Wind Project”) for a two year period beginning in 2015, with options to extend for up to two additional years”
Page 6
“Cape Wind to pay MassCEC monthly rent of $187,500. MassCEC intends to transfer the Cape Wind Lease to the selected Terminal Operator whereby the Terminal Operator would assume MassCEC’s obligations thereunder. The selected Terminal Operator and Cape Wind may agree to modify their respective roles and responsibilities. MassCEC appreciates that any such modifications may have financial implications.”
