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53-year-old man hurt in 20-foot fall in Hanover
December 14, 2012 by Lane Lambert in The Patriot Ledger
December 14, 2012 by Lane Lambert in The Patriot Ledger
The accident occurred at about 9 a.m. Friday. Initial reports said he fell 40 feet, but Blanchard said he actually fell from 60 feet inside the turbine tower onto a platform 40 feet off the turbine floor.
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Town off the hook as failed gear box likely a manufacturer defect, light department reports
September 19, 2012 by Phyllis Booth in The Landmark
September 19, 2012 by Phyllis Booth in The Landmark
If it turns out it is a manufacturer's problem the $95,000 PMLD paid up front for the gear box replacement will be returned and Jake would pay for the gearbox, said Allen. Then the company will look at the loss of revenue issue, he said.
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Structural Failure]
"A politically based determination of the Cape Wind project by the FAA is an unacceptable use of federal authority, contravenes FAA's statutory mandate and raises significant safety concerns for aviation in Nantucket Sound," they wrote.
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McLaughlin said it is hard to believe political influence was not a factor in the FAA's decision, which came a month after U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved the project.
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In a letter today to FAA chief Michael Huerta, congressmen John Mica (R-Fla.) and Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) say they have "significant questions" about the role of politics in the agency's approval of the project.
"A politically based determination of the Cape Wind project by FAA is an unacceptable use of federal authority, contravenes FAA's statutory mandate, and raises significant safety concerns for aviation in Nantucket Sound," their letter states.
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Brown calls for fed probe of Cape Wind
July 3, 2012 by Hillary Chabot And Matt Stout in Boston Herald
July 3, 2012 by Hillary Chabot And Matt Stout in Boston Herald
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown yesterday joined the growing chorus of critics calling for a federal probe into Cape Wind, saying officials have been aware of safety concerns "forever" and raising questions about whether the hotly debated Nantucket Sound project was born from "backroom deals."
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Cape Wind foes call for probe into pols' ‘bully' tactics
June 20, 2012 by Christine McConville and John Zaremba in Boston Herald
June 20, 2012 by Christine McConville and John Zaremba in Boston Herald
"FAA has made decisions based on political factors rather than the recommendations of the local aviation community and even its own employees, failing its statutory safety-first mandate," Audra Parker of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound wrote to the inspector general for the federal Department of Transportation.
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Workers struggle to find 'specialized' part for broken wind turbine
May 22, 2012 by Sandy McGee in Portsmouth Patch
May 22, 2012 by Sandy McGee in Portsmouth Patch
The town's wind turbine, located at Portsmouth High School, has remained motionless since May 10 after an error code alerted town workers to a problem on site. "The short story is Lumus believes the fault is in a pressure sensor and they are having difficulty locating a replacement part."
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Dr Hopkins said 150 sports utility vehicles (SUVs) would burn the same amount of oil as a wind farm would save.More than 60 abutters and neighbors filled the seats of the Mayflower Room at Town Hall Wednesday night to hear the Zoning Board of Appeal’s decision on the project. The vast majority opposed the project, despite repeated assurances from engineers that it meets the requirements of the town’s wind energy bylaw.
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Charlestown wind turbine to temporarily shut down for repairs
April 20, 2012 by Johanna Kaiser in Boston Globe
April 20, 2012 by Johanna Kaiser in Boston Globe
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority's wind turbine at the DeLauri Sewer Pump Station will be shut down in the coming weeks as a concrete ring and new piles are installed around the existing foundation.
Workers performing a routine inspection of the turbine in February found that its foundation settled faster than expected, according to the authority.
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Structural Failure]
After the crack was analyzed, replacing the blade was considered, but last Wednesday Hyundai engineers decided to remove a section of the blade and replace it with new material, Ruiz said.
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Structural Failure]
Reality sinks in for wind project; Turbine shut down for foundation fix
February 25, 2012 by John Zaremba in Boston Herald
February 25, 2012 by John Zaremba in Boston Herald
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority honchos and engineers met yesterday to figure out a fix for the $4.7 million wind turbine, which started turning in October, only to power down last month when crews discovered it had settled about 2 inches, agency officials said. Possible causes, they said, include soil conditions and vibrations from a sudden shutdown triggered by high winds.
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Structural Failure]
A federal appeals court has rejected the Federal Aviation Administration's ruling that the Cape Wind project's turbines present "no hazard" to aviation, overturning a vital clearance for the nation's first offshore wind farm.
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USA]
The appeal states that the FAA acted in an "arbitrary and capricious manner" by ignoring evidence submitted demonstrating that the wind turbines would in fact create a hazard to aviation and cause interfere with radar facilities used by air traffic control, failing to consider the cumulative effects of the turbines in Nantucket Sound, and exceeding its own authority.
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School Committee upset over windmill location
October 21, 2010 by Lindsay Pykosz in The Inquirer and Mirror
October 21, 2010 by Lindsay Pykosz in The Inquirer and Mirror
Two weeks after a number of neighbors said they were not informed about the three-bladed Northwind 100 turbine's location so close to the school, committee members raised their own concerns, saying that somewhere along the way they were excluded from the planning process.
Under an agreement with the MOD, if the planning inspector says yes to the windfarm, Enertrag UK would not be able to start building until they had the ‘approved' technology in place to mitigate these safety concerns. A spokesman for the MOD supplied the conditions, which state: "No development shall commence unless and until the planning authority has approved a Radar Mitigation System proposed by the Company and agreed by the MOD."
The town of Barnstable and the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound filed an administrative appeal yesterday requesting that the Federal Aviation Administration reverse its approval of the Cape Wind project.
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The Federal Aviation Administration has found that the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm will not be a hazard to air navigation, marking another in a string of wins for the project's developer.
Although the FAA previously determined that the 440-foot-tall wind turbines would be a so-called "presumed hazard" to navigation, that finding was considered a placeholder while the agency studied the effects of the wind farm on aviation more closely.
When the 100-foot-tall wind turbine at Bartlett's Ocean View Farm hurled one of its broken blades nearly 200 feet Jan. 18, it was a statistical anomaly. Wind energy experts claim, and statistics seem to show, failure rates are low.
But when a second 100-foot-tall turbine, this time in Marstons Mills, shed its blades in a northeaster this Sunday, it seemed to some the start of a troubling trend.
One of the windmill's 40-foot-long blades broke in half in moderate winds some time after dark Jan. 18, the broken piece plummeting to the ground where it landed nearly 175 feet away from the turbine.
No one was hurt, but Bartlett's Farm now alleges in Nantucket Superior Court that the manufacturer of the windmill, Wind Energy Solutions (WES), of the Netherlands, knew of a design defect.