As the Gulf of Maine Offshore Wind project speeds along its out-of-control-freight-train collision with reality, Orsted – a leader in failed East Coat wind projects, announced it is still losing obscene amounts of money. “Orsted estimated the value of its assets declined $472 million in the first half of 2024, largely due to delays at the onshore substation for its 704 megawatt (MW) “Revolution Wind” project off the coast of Rhode Island and Connecticut, the report showed. The company also reported a variety of other problems, including losses related to its cancellation of its Ocean Wind projects in New Jersey and its abandoned effort to produce eco-friendly methanol in Sweden.”
I can’t say if Orsted would be the contractor of preference for Wind Machines in the Gulf of Maine, but before we can get there from here, rumor has it New Hampshire’s offshore wind commission – the rigged body fast-tracking the approval process under the watchful eyes of David “Whale Killer” Watters, was illegally constituted. An actual law (NH RSA 374-F:10) creates and defines the makeup of the commission. I’ve been asking around, and I can’t find any fishermen who were actually on this thing. “347-F:10 (m) Two members representing the New Hampshire commercial fishing community, appointed by the governor.” It could be the governor’s understanding of “fishing community” differed from that of NH’s working fishermen, but it is not the only problem.
The law also requires a number of recommendations and reports from the commissions to the public, which, if you’ve read our content from Julie P., is conspicuously absent. You’ll have read about the “meetings,” public opposition, and the declaration that the project is now in the hands of NOAA and BOEM, and Granite State’rs can’t do anything about that. But if the law was broken – at least not followed – there might be grounds to reel this thing back in, assuming Governor Wind and his blowhard AG had any interest in pursuing that. I don’t think they do. I think we can complain about it all we want, and they’ll treat it the same way they do election integrity. There’s nothing to see here; move along.. But there’s more to it than ignoring the law and the systemic collapse of wind power agreements up and down the Eastern Seaboard. Wind is neither clean nor better for the environment.
Steel and concrete in general are the greatest contributors to ghg emissions. The World
Economic Forum acknowledges that the steel industry contributes 7-9 percent of global
man-made ghg emissions.[10] Obviously, massive increases in wind turbines will greatly
increase steel’s overall contribution to emissions.After constructing the turbines, the finished products need to be hauled to various wind
farms. Raw materials extraction and turbine manufacturing comprise up to 86 percent of
total lifecycle emissions for wind power; the remaining 14 percent comes from
transportation, installation, operation and maintenance, and decommissioning and
disposal.[11]Most turbines are trucked to their final destination. Offshore wind farms have the added
complication and carbon footprint of oceanic vessels transporting and erecting the
turbines.
Add animal strikes, and – in the case of OSW) – the impact on sea life, some of which were protected or endangered until they interfered with the expansion of offshore wind. We could follow that with another dissertation on the true life-expectancy of the installation, the toxic risk to people and wildlife if a turbine is damaged, and the lack of any recycling plan at end-of-life. But that would make it look like we are being dragged toward a plan with no plan in a world where catering to the laws of God or man are inconvenient obstacles to be side-stepped, toppled, or ignored.
But that is exactly what this appears to be – a desire to be achieved at any cost without regard to any consequence and no authority in place interested in what the law or the people have to say.
