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Mass - Broken Vineyard Wind Turbine Scatters Debris Along Nantucket's South Shore; Wind Farm Operati
« on: July 17, 2024, 11:15:07 am »
Big Global Climate Change needs to take their offshore windfarm boondoggles, and go screw.

We have spent the last 30+ years cleaning up and restoring the northwest Atlantic fisheries.  The return of whales is success.  The return of Great White Sharks is success.  The return of the Striped Bass and Bluefin Tuna fisheries is success.

All that blood, sweat, tears, and money will go wasted if offshore windfarms disrupt and pollute our fisheries.

How is an offshore windfarm that disrupts and pollutes fisheries more environmentally virtuous than a natural gas power generation plant?

It makes sense to put wind turbines along the shoreline, but not in waters vital to the environment, economy, history, recreation, and culture of coastal New England.

https://nantucketcurrent.com/news/vineyard-wind-reports-turbine-blade-damage-in-offshore-incident
Broken Vineyard Wind Turbine Scatters Debris Along Nantucket's South Shore; Wind Farm Operations Shut Down By Feds

Jason Graziadei • Jul 16, 2024

Debris from a broken Vineyard Wind turbine blade washed up all over Nantucket's south shore Tuesday morning, prompting the offshore energy company to mount a cleanup effort and the federal government to shut down the wind farm "until further notice."

Residents began reporting pieces of green and white foam, along with larger pieces of what appears to fiberglass, along southern Nantucket beaches at daybreak, stretching from Madaket out to Nobadeer.

The federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement announced Tuesday afternoon that Vineyard Wind's "operations are shut down until further notice." ...
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Re: Mass - Broken Vineyard Wind Turbine Scatters Debris Along Nantucket's South Shore; Wind Farm Operati
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2024, 07:03:43 pm »
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Re: Mass - Broken Vineyard Wind Turbine Scatters Debris Along Nantucket's South Shore; Wind Farm Operati
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2024, 09:44:01 pm »
Thar she blows!
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Re: Mass - Broken Vineyard Wind Turbine Scatters Debris Along Nantucket's South Shore; Wind Farm Operati
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2024, 07:43:18 am »
We can be certain global warming caused the turbine to become so brittle it exploded! :whistle:
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Re: Mass - Broken Vineyard Wind Turbine Scatters Debris Along Nantucket's South Shore; Wind Farm Operati
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2024, 07:31:40 pm »
 Shards of “nonbiodegradable fiberglass” eventually washed up onto the shoreline.
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... Okay, let’s do a quick rundown of the implications of this event, to illustrate how disastrous this failure really is.

We’ve got shards of composite material made of glass and petroleum-based resin polluting the water—what’s this going to do to marine life? And the progressive leftists who think they’re the eco-conscious ones worry about plastic straws or some plastic bags? Imagine all the creatures that will be swallowing a synthetic glass! And, since the shards are washing up on shore, now people can’t even enjoy walking barefoot on the sand lest they get sliced up by razor sharp detritus, and they certainly can’t enjoy a swim or frolic in the water.  ...
Read more at the American Thinker, "Off-shore wind turbine blade snaps off into water and forces closure of Nantucket beaches"
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Re: Mass - Broken Vineyard Wind Turbine Scatters Debris Along Nantucket's South Shore; Wind Farm Operati
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2024, 07:18:41 am »
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filed:  July 21, 2024 • Massachusetts
The broken wind turbine near Nantucket was not the first
Credit:  "The broken wind turbine near Nantucket was ‘highly unusual and rare.’ But it wasn’t the first" · By Ella Nilsen, CNN · Published Sat July 20, 2024 · cnn.com ~~

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The massive offshore wind turbine blade that broke and spread fiberglass and foam debris across Nantucket beaches this week was one of several recent failures of blades made by GE Vernova – a top US wind turbine manufacturer.

Several GE Vernova blades have broken on onshore and offshore turbines in Germany, Sweden, Lithuania and the United Kingdom in recent years. The broken blades were a variety of different sizes and types, and the company’s investigations revealed there were different root causes for the damage, including transportation, handling, and manufacturing deviations, according to a company source with knowledge of the investigations.

Broken wind turbines are “highly unusual and rare,” a GE Vernova representative told Nantucket residents and officials on Wednesday. A company spokesperson said in a statement it was “working with urgency to complete our root cause analysis of this event.”

https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/07/21/the-broken-wind-turbine-near-nantucket-was-not-the-first/
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Re: Mass - Broken Vineyard Wind Turbine Scatters Debris Along Nantucket's South Shore; Wind Farm Operati
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2024, 06:10:40 pm »
Just wait for the next Nor'easter, or even one of those northerly hurricanes.

Will the waters be navigable enough to ship in the fuels that New York won't allow pipelines to bring, or will that have to come out of Canada? (HINT: Don't worry about the exchange rate, they'll take your dollars at par.)
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Re: Mass - Broken Vineyard Wind Turbine Scatters Debris Along Nantucket's South Shore; Wind Farm Operati
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2024, 08:31:18 am »
‘Bunch Of Suits Trying To Cover Their Tracks’: Beach Town Locals Slam Offshore Wind Developer For Polluting Shores
Broke Vineyard Wind Turbine
 
OWEN KLINSKY
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July 18, 2024
 

Residents of Nantucket, Massachusetts, spoke out on Wednesday at a town hall against a wind power company for a “turbine blade failure incident” that resulted in debris washing up along the beach.

Officials of the small island town located 30 miles off the coast of Cape Cod were forced to shut down beaches on the south shore on Tuesday due to “large floating debris and sharp fiberglass shards,” according to a statement posted to Facebook by the Nantucket Harbormaster’s office. During the town hall, locals accused Vineyard Wind — an offshore wind development company that operates near the island — of taking too long to notify the community and clean up the site, according to videos of the event posted on X by the Nantucket Current.

“This happened Saturday night… There was no notice to mariners until Monday; that’s unacceptable. The town wasn’t informed until Monday,” Nantucket charter boat captain Bobby DeCosta said during the town hall. “There’s nobody in this room that’s been to that sight. I guarantee it. We’ve got a bunch of suits here trying to cover their tracks,” DeCosta continued, gesturing towards the Vineyard Wind representatives present at the meeting.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/18/nantucket-locals-slam-offshore-wind-developer/#google_vignette
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