News Media:Lap Dogs & Huskies For Wind Turbine Industry

News Media:Lap Dogs & Huskies For Wind Turbine Industry

News Media Watchdogs : Lap Dogs & Huskies For Wind Turbine Industry

Over the past several years the news industry has produced muzzled stories over massive mistakes and over spending at the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal aka the ocean wind turbine port aka the South Terminal port.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center told the public it is a multi-use port while telling Siemens wind turbine company it was a 100 percent wind turbine port 24/7.

The news media has become the quintessential lap dog for building the project writing loving, gentle, playful, happy-go-lucky news stories that at this point have got to be a major embarrassment to news reporters and the editors of the news media.

The Massachusetts news media has been duped and they still don't get it. The news media continues publishing "puff" news reports about the New Bedford ocean wind turbine port without checking the information.

The news media has taken on a new dynamic only reporting the positive information from state press releases and local meetings.

On September 8, 2014 in a conference room next to New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell the news media was nowhere to be found. The meeting was all bad news. You have to ask if the media was warned not to attend the meeting. After all you never want to print negative news against the state "Agenda" of 2000 megawatts of renewable energy by 2020.

The meeting was attended by residents from Cape Cod to Rhode Island. The complaint from Fairhaven residents was home owners dogs living near the river were dying of cancer, a rowing club was taking down caution PCBs signs, Fairhaven high school students playing in the water and people fishing in the river. The EPA spokesperson who acknowledged that it had received 360 million dollars recently said they didn't know how to get the message about PCBs to the public. Really ?

The Massachusetts Clean Energy spokesperson gave the bad news that 110,000 cubic yards of material and more blasting is underway after an oversight of making the channel too small. The channel going out five miles from the hurricane barrier was also only able to be used at high tide. New Bedford Harbor will not be certified for use until March of 2015.

The question of the cost of the terminal was left unanswered. We were told if anyone wants to know the cost of the terminal you could go to the Secretary of the Commonwealth and look in the Central Register. In the next breath I was told the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center is the owner of the project and is a semi quasi state agency and there may be a problem getting that kind of information. Why are they hiding the costs?

 The news media owes the public an apology over its coverage of the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal using renewable energy money to build an ocean wind turbine port that has never had a federal permit from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to build wind turbines.

Alarm bells should have gone off when Richard Sullivan, the state's Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary testified to a legislative bonding committee he was 100 percent sure Cape Wind would build its wind turbines in New Bedford.

Cape Wind has never had a permit to build wind turbines in New Bedford.

The federal BOEM, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management permit has always said Quonset Point, Rhode Island and Cape Wind has signed a lease with Quonset Point.

The news media has helped dupe the public and become the Lap Dog of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and the executive branch of Massachusetts government.