Jim Bates: Real environmental disaster from wind

AP FILE PHOTO/CHARLES KRUPAGiant wind turbine blades for the Vineyard Winds project are stacked on racks in the harbor, July 11, 2023, in New Bedford, Mass. Vineyard Wind said Tuesday, July 16, 2024, that it is working to recover debris on Nantucket’s southern-facing beaches after one of the wind turbine blades suffered damage. AP FILE PHOTO/CHARLES KRUPA

Eric Haynes—

Debris from the broken wind turbine blade off the coast of Nantucket was expected to wash ashore. Courtesy of Nantucket Harbormaster/via Boston Herald

Published: 08-13-2024 4:10 PM

“The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind” Bob Dylan, 1962.

Climate activists, ol’ hippies don’t like the answer the wind provided to the turbines in Nantucket Sound.

A more than 300-foot-long turbine blade broke off, sending shards of fiberglass to the bottom of the ocean with giant sections washing ashore and spewing oil into the ocean. A typical wind turbine needs approximately 50 gallons of oil for lubrication.

How many fish and crustaceans were killed when this happened? Beaches were closed, luckily no human was injured or worse.

The environmental disaster caused the entire wind farm to be shut down. Coincidental or deliberately? I did not see any articles about this, in the Recorder. Yet, when a quart of hydraulic fluid leaked at the Gill-Turners Falls dam it was front page news. Local politicians chimed in with their two cents to chide FirstLight Power officials. Where are their two cents now? About a real environmental disaster.

Crickets is what you hear because it does not fit their narrative, the indoctrination they have been pushing on us for years.

Where are the letters to the editor? There are regular letter writers who feel the more words they use trying to make a point, the better. The exact opposite happens. They too, are silent about this disaster.

Ten years ago there were “No Pipeline” signs all over Franklin County. Where are the “No Wind Turbines” signs, today?

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