Massachusetts political contributions from Nantucket wind farm developer scrutinized
Updated: 2024-07-30 14:04:48
As Nantucket continues to reel from the Vineyard Wind turbine blade failure, critics are raising concerns around how the project’s parent company, Avangrid, has donated thousands of dollars in campaign money to state elected officials. A Herald analysis found that employees who list Avangrid as their employer have made 217 donations totaling $57,677 to dozens of state and local campaigns since March 2018, two months before the Baker administration selected a Vineyard Wind bid for contract negotiation. Notable figures include . . .
A resident in Eastern Kings is worried the P.E.I. government will continue with a wind farm expansion in the area, despite finding a possible wetland along an access route to the development. Don Humphrey is an Eastern Kings councillor, but emphasized that he is not speaking on behalf of the municipality. He initially presented his concerns at a P.E.I. Forestry Commission meeting in late May. Humphrey said the potential wetland was discovered this spring during tree clearing to create an . . .
Not mentioned in the report is any assessment of the environmental impact on marine life. One week after fiberglass and styrofoam debris from Vineyard Wind’s destroyed turbine blade began washing up on Nantucket, the town has released an initial environmental assessment of the incident. The report states the primary risk from the turbine blade debris is physical injuries to those coming in contact with it on public beaches in shoreline areas. It claims the debris is “inert, non-soluble, stable, and . . .
bostonglobe.com A massive section of a damaged 350-foot turbine blade from a wind farm off the coast of Nantucket that detached Thursday morning has sunk to the ocean floor, town officials said Friday. The large piece of fiberglass “will be recovered in due course,” they said. “Approximately half of the fiberglass shell of the blade remains attached, while most of the foam fill dislodged during the initial failure last Saturday,” Nantucket officials said in an update posted on the town’s . . .
More pieces of a broken wind turbine off the coast of Massachusetts are falling into the Atlantic Ocean. The CEO of Vineyard Wind was at Nantucket’s Select Board meeting Wednesday evening, apologizing and answering questions about the initial break when he suddenly had to leave because the situation is getting worse. The broken turbine blade could fall into the sea “soon,” the company said. Broken wind turbine The meeting was the first chance for residents of the island to speak . . .
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 . . .
The Biden administration earlier this month approved the construction of 195 wind turbines with the closest one just nine miles off the southern New Jersey coast line, causing uproar from residents in coastal towns. While the Biden administration and other environmental activist groups boast that the Atlantic Shores South project, nearly nine years in the making, is another milestone in the country’s harvesting of green energy, a former U.S. Department of Energy engineer raises alarm bells that not only is . . .
Debris from a broken Vineyard Wind turbine washed up all over Nantucket’s south shore Tuesday morning, and the offshore energy company has announced a cleanup effort that includes sending a team to the island. 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. Vineyard Wind disclosed Monday that one of its turbine blades suffered damage Saturday during an “offshore . . .
Commercial fishermen on the New South Wales South Coast fear a wind farm in waters off the Illawarra could “decimate” their business. Commercial fishermen in regional NSW fear a proposed offshore wind farm will harm their businesses and are pleading for more information. Mark Horne has been a commercial fisherman in the Illawarra region for almost 25 years. His business, Lobfish, farms and provides eastern rock lobsters to Sydney restaurants as well as local businesses. Mr Horne held back tears . . .
Rachel Reeves, the incoming chancellor, introduced new measures to give the sites an easier ride through the planning system, as part of a range of reforms intended to boost economic growth. The change could have a significant impact in the region, which experts say contains huge areas which are suitable for such sites. At least half a dozen renewables companies have started to identify sites for full-scale windfarms across the country. Green campaigners and the energy sector have welcomed the . . .
[Sea eagle killed by wind turbine] Karl-Heinz Seedorf kann den traurigen Anblick kaum noch ertragen. Nachdem er vor ein paar Wochen einen toten Rotmilan vom Feld weggetragen hatte, trug der Uckermärker in dieser Woche erneut einen stolzen Seeadler bei Seite. Der riesige Vogel starb in der Nähe seines Heimatortes Blankenburg auf einem großen Windfeld. “Gekillt von den Rotorblättern”, ist der Vorsitzende des Jagdverbandes überzeugt: Der Flügel ist zerschmettert.” Auch über diesen Fund hat er die zuständigen Behörden informiert. “Ein Mitarbeiter . . .
Around 300 Siemens Gamesa wind turbine workers in Hull are being balloted for strike action over pay, the Unite union said today (Friday, July 12). The workers, who construct 108m-long wind turbine blades by hand, are angry at a 4.5 per cent pay offer plus an opaque incentive scheme, according to Unite. Since 2018, wages at the factory on the banks of the Humber estuary have dropped by 11.9 per cent in real terms, it said. Unite general secretary Sharon . . .