The Dallas Express previously reported the extensive damage caused by the Vineyard Wind project in Massachusetts, drawing attention to reports of fiberglass sheets being blown ashore from the wind farms’ wreckage.
DX noted that such wind farms could potentially harm the environment, seriously affecting birds, fish, and other wildlife. The wind farm’s presence could also disrupt navigation and potentially put an end to commercial fishing activities.
Now, ZeroHedge reported that “The great Nantucket experiment gets an F-minus,” said Kevin O’Leary, chairman of O’Leary Ventures, to Bloomberg.
“It’s not a golden example of success in wind turbines, that’s for sure, ” O’Leary added.
Here is more of what ZeroHedge reported on the broken wind turbines polluting the beaches:
The federal government ordered Vineyard Wind’s project south of Nantucket last month to halt construction and electricity generation following the blade malfunction.
The company managing the project determined the turbine blade failure was due to a “manufacturing deviation,” adding that before energy can be produced, all blades across the project will be inspected with ultrasound technology and drones, reported local media CapeCod.
Source: Bloomberg
Vineyard Wind CEO Klaus Møller stated, “We believe we have the right plan in place to recover the rest of the blade, secure any debris offshore and onshore, and safely and responsibly resume the installation program so we can put this project back on track to deliver needed clean power to the New England region.”
Nantucket is merely a casualty of the Biden-Harris administration’s push to ‘greenify’ the US economy with unreliable wind and solar. The admin has pledged to develop 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030.
Now community leaders on the small island, home to some of Biden’s wealthy Democrat donors, plan to renegotiate the island’s “good neighbor” agreement with Vineyard Wind, according to Bloomberg.
Gabriel Frasca, chef and part owner of Straight Wharf Restaurant on the island, said the offshore wind power project sounds like a great idea in a vacuum, but this “well-intentioned idea” has “calamitous, unintended consequences.”
The Biden-Harris administration pitched the American people that green energy was desperately needed to defeat ‘climate change’ and that these green projects would yield beneficial returns. We’re all glad Harris wasn’t the ‘Green Czar’… However, Democrats didn’t explain any consequences of broken blades and entirely left out that this type of power generation is unreliable if the wind doesn’t blow. Also, for solar, if the sun doesn’t shine, where does the power come from?
For Nantucket residents, the consequence of greenifying the power grid was at the expense of fiberglass shards.
Source: Nantucket Current
Source: Nantucket Current
Source: Nantucket Current
Pat McEvoy, managing director at Canaccord Genuity and Nantucket resident, said the green energy push offshore “was jammed down our throats by the federal government.” He added, “We were not represented in this process.”
Even after the blade failure, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey told Bloomberg on Monday, “We need to do everything we can to transition away from fossil fuels and we’ve got a huge asset resource just sitting out there in the ocean.”
Again, the view Democrats have in building out green projects is irrational because they are blinded by their ‘climate alarmist’ beliefs. Closing down coal and NatGas power generators for unreliable renewable energy is disastrous for power grids, especially when AI data centers, electric vehicles, and reshoring trends increase load demand.