Posted on 07/17/2024 11:54:55 AM PDT by matt04
The federal government has ordered the Vineyard Wind farm to shut down until further notice because of a turbine blade failure this weekend.
Several beaches were closed on Tuesday while crews worked to clean up "large floating debris and fiberglass shards" from the broken wind turbine blade off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. A total of six south shore Nantucket beaches were closed to swimming due to debris that washed ashore.
"You can walk on the beaches, however we strongly recommend you wear footwear due to sharp, fiberglass shards and debris on the beaches," the Nantucket Harbormaster said. Vineyard Wind operations shut down
Late Tuesday afternoon, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said all operations are shut down until further notice.
"A team of BSEE experts is onsite to work closely with Vineyard Wind on an analysis of the cause of the incident and next steps," the agency said in a statement.
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Man-made climate change strikes again!
Idiotic and unnecessary projects are the rats forte
This will bankrupt the operation
Peak tourist season
will they grieve when they start seeing little and big fishes with fiberglass in their tummies?
Time to fly in a few plane loads of illegals again to clean up the fiberglass. I’m willing to bet it will keep washing for weeks or longer.
Are they sure it was not from a mini-sub?.................
A limerick a day
Keeps the turbines at bay.
What’s a few foot lacerations when we’re Saving The Planet (c)?
Good question, I’m gonna guess no. If this was oil on the beach, they libs would have been out within hours. Now, not a peep from any environmental group I can find.
Where is the EPA when you actually need them?
We’re saving the planet, don’t you know? /S
Excellent news: Blades washing ashore...
They get what they voted for...
Couldn’t happen to a better place, populated by greedy rich leftist extremists.
This makes me laugh out loud: “A team of BSEE experts”. I’ve seen BSEE “experts” before and most of them make me laugh too. What a preposterous and pitiful situation.
Nantucket is one of the most beautiful places on earth. Nantucket is more Republican than Marthas Vineyard, but so is Washington DC, for that matter.
Apparently, Leftist ignorance of consequences extends to engineering projects. China provides the world with a daily reel of spectacular infrastructure catastrophes.
Each of these wind turbines requires hundreds of gallons of oilt to operate.. ironic isn’t it.
Actually, Nantucket tends to be where the Wall Street types go. Hedge Fund people that are mostly Republicans. I know a guy who works at Goldman Sachs who owns a house there. He is a conservative.
The Liberals mostly go to Martha’s Vineyard. The conservatives go to Nantucket.
Almost all the residents of Nantucket were totally AGAINST these wind farms being being in Nantucket Sound. Not only would they potentially ruin the fishing grounds but the sailing area too.
Even Ted Kennedy was against building these wind mills off of Nantucket.
It’s summer in Nantucket! Tourists will arrive by the thousands and spend money! But lurking in the water are BLADES! Aaaaaarrgggh
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