Donald Trump has a long, irrational hatred of wind farms, dating back to his squabbles in Scotland between them and a golf course. The GOP, for reasons that will ever escape me, has adopted most of his whims as policy, making up factoids as necessary to support them.
That seems to be the only reason the GOP-controlled New Hampshire house would squash any future participation in offshore wind in the Gulf of Maine. There’s certainly no good reason to do it.
Here’s an InDepth NH story.
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While some people may have a long, irrational hatred of wind farms, people who live near them have a long, very rational hatred of them.
There are a couple of amusing (to me – I don’t live near a wind turbine) stories from Vineyard Wind this week.
https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2025/03/01/vineyard-wind-aircraft-detection-system-nantucket-marthas-vineyard/80561684007/
These woes about an ADLS system echo similar woes at Antrim Wind.
Two excerpts:
The lights on the installed turbines have been a point of contention for islanders for more than a year. While the effort to get the lighting system working marks progress, local leaders are frustrated that the problem was not resolved sooner. The system was part of the 2020 Good Neighbor Agreement, which promised to reduce the visibility of the turbines at night by employing an ALDS.
Selectwoman Dawn Holdgate took Vineyard Wind to task at the Feb. 19 board meeting, saying, “we as a board and the community at large even more vehemently really feel misled by the representations that were given back in 2020.”
https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/environment/2025/03/03/lightning-vineyard-wind-turbine-ma-offshore-wind-us-coast-guard/81153999007/
I assume February lightning is pretty rare off shore. It’s not very clear that there was new damage to this turbine, it’s the one that lost a blade last summer:
According to the U.S. Coast Guard, lightning struck the turbine known as AW-38 on Feb. 27. An advisory issued by the First District Command Center on Feb. 28, which has been posted on social media, indicated that the turbine “caught fire, and detached,” but that a fishing boat that was nearby reported “no sign of debris.” Nevertheless, a Safety Marine Information Broadcast “for hazard to navigation” was issued as a precaution.
We are doomed.