Posted on 06/27/2023 8:39:29 AM PDT by dennisw
On a chilly June day, with the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard just over the distant horizon, a low-riding, green-hulled vessel finished hammering a steel column nearly 100 feet into the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
This was the beginning of construction of the first giant wind farm off the United States coast, a project with the scale to make a large contribution to the Northeast power grid. For some of those looking on from a nearby boat, the driving in of the first piling marked a milestone they had labored to reach for two decades. The $4 billion project, known as Vineyard Wind, is expected to start generating electricity by year’s end.
“This has been really hard,” said Rachel Pachter, the chief development officer of Vineyard Offshore, the American arm of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, a Danish renewable energy developer that is a co-owner of the wind farm. To bring a big energy project to this point near population centers requires clearing countless regulatory hurdles and heading off potential opposition and litigation. “You don’t see large infrastructure projects built in New England anymore,” she said, “and certainly not in places where they are highly visible.”
Ms. Pachter has seen the difficulties firsthand. Starting in 2002 as an intern just out of college, she worked for more than a decade on a project off Massachusetts called Cape Wind; it ultimately failed, in part because of intense opposition over the years by people like Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who died in 2009, and the billionaire William Koch. Vineyard Wind, too, has pockets of vociferous opposition. Some people in the fishing industry say turbines will make their job nearly impossible.
Ms. Pachter, though, has helped orchestrate a campaign of community outreach, job creation and funding
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Ruining view shed and sea life. IIRC, one of the contractors has already bailed.
I assume “large contribution to the Northeast power grid” is probably pretty small.
Too bad they’ll be barely visible.
I want them sprinkled all throughout Martha’s Vineyard, Malibu, Bel Air, and every other enclave filled with rich liberals.
I’m sick of their hypocritical NIMBY attitudes. YOU want wind? YOU get to live with seeing it daily.
The ocean’s salt air is deadly corrosive to anything mechanical. We shall see. This project will need lots more maintenance due to the salt air.
” but they will be barely visible from Martha’s Vineyard.”
Oh, good. For a minute there, I was worried about the rich people’s scenery being spoiled.
Making the North Atlantic a Whale Free Zone.
Leftists rock.
in 25 years, I guarantee people in Massachusetts will be arguing loudly about WHO should be held responsible for the astronomical cost of removing those ugly, rusting, broken hulks of spent wind-mills sitting on their coastline, having never come close to performance that was promised.
How did they manage to get this one past by the Kennedy family?
Well isn’t that special.
Thank God there are no Storms that hit that area, it could wipe the entire project out.
Whale killers.
> The ocean’s salt air is deadly corrosive to anything mechanical. <
Right. This project shows once again how liberals never think ahead. It’s always do what feels good at the moment.
and not one MSM ‘reporter’ will bring up the fact that whales and such are dying from the sound they give off- infact, they are tripping all over themselves to explain away the deaths by claiming that ‘boat propellers’ are causing the deaths despite photos showing no such fatal injuries on the massive creatures-
“The “unusual mortality” data is astounding. Basically the humpback death rate roughly tripled starting in 2016 and continued high thereafter. You can see it here:
It is illegal for people to ‘harass’ animals, but the governments get a free pass apparently as windmills are likely doing just that and worse
https://www.cfact.org/2023/01/23/evidence-says-offshore-wind-development-is-killing-lots-of-whales/
“The $4 billion project,”
aka the Big Dig part deux.
Don’t bet on it.
Unless the Feds are paying for them, with the increases in interest rates Offshore wind is no longer viable.
Also, look at Seimens recent admissions that their wind turbines do not last as long as they are supposed to.
Folks should check out the ownership of Vineyard Wind...
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