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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Let them try, as long as there are no government subsidies whatsoever.
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These UGLY, UGLY things are VISUAL POLLUTION!! Plus they kill BIRDS, Whales and can de-valuate your property if they can be seen!
Government is intolerant of competition.
Rogue waves, freak storms, cat 5+ hurricanes, ramming by huge oil tankers and other cargo ships.
The “butterfly” affect of massive wind farms must be huge - disturbing the wind currents by the energy taken out of the winds proportionate to the energy absorbed (taken) by the wind farms. Where are the “environmental studies” on this???
Farms “take root”.
“Wind farms” don’t.
Nothing natural or nature-loving or environment-blending-in, or anything like that, in a “wind farm”.
Go find other people to baffle with your preposterous word salads and pagan sorcerer’s ways, New York Times.
And all of it gets to become part of the coral reef after the Beaufort Scale hits 9-12 during a wicked Nor’easter. I’m all for clean free energy, but when these things suffer a catastrophic malfunction they quiet literally come apart, dumping a massive amount of oil when the gearbox fails. The greenies never tell you about that part... Just do a search on
Great minds think alike. I was twenty seconds behind you...
Signals the end of commercial fishing in state waters. Fish and shellfish: what can’t run dies. These platforms are not oil rigs and they are antithetical to sea life due to the electrical fields and vibrations the generate.
Making the North Atlantic a Whale, Fish, and Shellfish Free Zone.
Leftists rock.
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The noise and vibrations caused by them do lots of harm for migrating fish and sea mammals. It’s not just the birds.
And they say they care about our environment?
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Aside from the negatives that FReepers have posted....This is a very large scale and impressive engineering project. Cost is 4 billion. Check out the photos https://archive.is/OjkmY#selection-404.1-496.0
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Just retested and the Archived link works. Try again -— https://archive.is/OjkmY#selection-404.1-496.0
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