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News Media Ignores Wind Turbine Boondoggle Court Coincidences
Massachusetts Courts June 17, 2017, Shut Down Falmouth Nuisance Wind Turbines -June 17, 2019, Jury Rules 20M Against Ocean Turbine Port
The Wall Street Journal published a scathing editorial on the experience of Falmouth, Massachusetts, which spent $10 million on wind turbines, and it’s been a disaster. The courts shut down the two nuisance wind turbines on June 17, 2017.
Coincidentally two years later on the same date, a Boston jury found against the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal a supposed full-service ocean wind turbine port.
Former Governor Deval Patrick announced in October of 2010 that a new multi-purpose marine commerce terminal will be built in the port of New Bedford to support the delivery, assembly, and installation of offshore wind turbines, as well as shipping and other commercial activities.
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The project during 2010 was in the process of engineering and design, the cost of construction is estimated at $35 million and is expected to be financed by state, federal, and city resources, as well as operating revenues. But like the Boston Big Dig, the cost continues to cost taxpayers more and more.
The New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal had cost reach three times what taxpayers were told to $113 million by 2015.
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The unfortunate saga of the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal took another bad turn against taxpayers on Monday, June 17, 2019, when a jury in Suffolk Superior Court ruled that contractors that built the port are owed at least $20 million for unpaid work.
A lot of critics have looked at the $113 million New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal and called it a boondoggle. Now with the court its 133 million and still is incomplete.
The New Bedford ocean wind turbine port still has no rail link, no large walking cranes and it is unclear if the channel from the hurricane gates 5 miles out to sea still need dredging.
The state calls this phase two ?
The hurricane gates only have a legal clearance of 120 feet. Wind turbine jack-up barges used to install wind turbines are generally 140 feet or wider.
New Bedford Ocean Wind Turbine Port & Falmouth wind turbines : " Boondoggle" "Any number of activities of or pertaining to the gross misuse of government funds"
