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Investigation Ongoing After Turbine Pieces Found on Nantucket Shores
NANTUCKET – An investigation is still underway after debris from a broken wind turbine was found along Nantucket’s southern coastline. Vineyard Wind confirmed that it was a piece from one of their turbines. The incident caused beach closures on the island, with residents finding fiberglass and other debris along the sands. The company said the […] The post Investigation Ongoing After Turbine Pieces Found on Nantucket Shores appeared first on CapeCod.com.
Vineyard Wind turbine blade damaged; fiberglass debris in water south of Nantucket
A turbine blade at the Vineyard Wind offshore wind farm sustained damage Saturday, sending pieces of fiberglass into the water, the company said. Debris has been moving toward Nantucket from the location of the turbines, 15 miles southwest of the island and south of Martha’s Vineyard. The company said it is deploying two teams of four people to Nantucket to remove debris from this island’s south-facing beaches.
DEP Penalizes Island Fuel Business
NANTUCKET –The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is fining Nantucket-based Harbor Fuel Oil Corporation nearly $12,000. The penalty is for failing to obtain an air quality permit before building a tank farm that has the potential to emit air contaminants above state air quality permitting thresholds. The Harbor Fuel...
Barstool Sports owner rescued by Coast Guard after losing control of boat off Nantucket
The owner and founder of Barstool Sports said he was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard Monday after losing control of a boat off Massachusetts. Dave Portnoy said in a social media video that the rescue happened after he unhooked his boat from buoys. Heavy winds then caused him to drift out to sea, and his engine was dead.
‘Like Tom Hanks in Castaway': Dave Portnoy describes harrowing ordeal aboard boat
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said he considers himself lucky to be alive after he found himself adrift on his boat with no power off Nantucket on Monday. "I'm a relatively new boater," Portnoy said in an interview with NBC10 Boston's Colton Bradford on Tuesday. "I spent my summer's hitting dingers, I wasn't part of a yacht club. I'm a new boat guy -- it was my third time out on a boat."
How Has The Town Responded To The Vineyard Wind Turbine Debris Situation?
Eight hours after island residents awoke to discover thousands of pieces of debris from Vineyard Wind's broken turbine blade strewn across Nantucket's beaches, the town formally addressed the situation with a press release. The statement - shared just after 3 p.m. on Tuesday - largely reiterated what Vineyard Wind had...
After turbine incident, feds halting Vineyard Wind operations
Operations at Vineyard Wind, the first offshore installation to provide clean power to Massachusetts and the region, are suspended after an incident over the weekend spread wind blade debris across Nantucket beaches. Three days after a turbine being tested south of the islands experienced some kind of still-unspecified "incident," federal...
‘Ruined by negligence’: Dave Portnoy blasts Nantucket wind farm after broken blade shuts down beaches
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Blade break prompts suspension of Vineyard Wind production, construction
Power production has been stopped from all of the project’s wind turbine generators until it can be determined whether the blade failure affects any other turbines. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement ordered a suspension of power production and construction at the Vineyard Wind offshore wind site off the coast of Massachusetts following a turbine blade break that sent debris into the water and prompted the brief closure of beaches.
Broken wind turbine blade could fall into ocean off Massachusetts “soon,” company says
BOSTON (WBZ) — 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.
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