In a little over a week, one of the development projects is being strong-armed and fast-tracked at the hands of New Hampshire’s ‘Developer Class,” and the politicians who aid and abet has its final meeting before the lease sale.
The Gulf of Main Wind project.
It is a ruling class bucket list project advocates want to be done in the event Trump wins and tries to kill funding. Funding. For what? Offshore wind farms. Like the ones attributed to the recent massive East Coast die-off of porpoises, whales, and dolphins. Something that, if they saw a jackpot justice opportunity to sue a global conglomerate, they couldn’t shut up about. Look at all these dead whales. You are destroying the planet.
Even on a maybe.
They would demand that they stop their operations (whatever it was) so that the courts and the scientists could be leveraged into a payout. Big headlines, bigger checks, burnished resumes, but in the end, nothing changed.
Offshore wind in the Gulf of Main is being steamrolled without regard to cost, absence of actual green benefit, or the parade of dead safe-life that has followed it. They don’t know what damage all this interference in the Ocean is causing. The fishermen don’t like it, and a handful of environmentalists (who aren’t worth paying off) are against it.
Geno Marconi was reputedly opposed, but you see what they did to him and his wife for daring to lean in on the power brokers’ plans. Between that and the Rye Harbor reboot (also opposed), they’ve both been indicted—he for being in the way, and she for looking for a way to stop them from doing that to him. One is a long-time defender of NH Ports and fisherman, the other a State Supreme Court Justice.
The people most affected on the ground are reluctant to make too much noise themselves.
That’s how it’s done. But what do you have to lose? They are going to ruin the Gulf of Maine. It will affect whales, porpoises, dolphins, lobsters, and other sea life, and they don’t care. They see development dollars, transmission royalties, praise from the paparazzi media, or something else better for them than it is for you.
Adding more wind to the New England Grid will drive up electric rates, operating costs, and the price of everything—more than they will ever admit. That affects the cost of living, available jobs, and wages, and the whole local economy takes it up the backside. Small businesses on the edge struggle and die.
And it’s not green.
The last public meeting I’m aware of is Oct. 28th. A workday, near the end of the workday, because these assholes know what they are doing. The odds are also good that they will deliberate and lack a quorum so any actual business can be conducted. It’s a dog and pony show—lip gloss on the pig. But people need to show up and be heard. Make it a newsworthy event.
The fragile, overheated Gulf of Maine (their narrative), filled with equipment, steel, noise, and pollution, followed by wind farms, broken turbines, and water filled with foam, fiberglass, microplastics, Bisphenol, and dead whales and dolphins.
All so some suits can say they did something and drive up the cost of everything.
Here’s the meeting notice. We hope you can make it.
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