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Chapter 91 hearing set for Cape Wind

Chapter 91 hearing set for Cape Wind
Company seeks to bury two electric cables across tidelands

Another hearing is on tap for Cape Wind, the wind turbine farm proposed for Horseshoe Shoal south of Cape Cod.

Cape Wind Associates has applied for a Chapter 91 permit, which would allow the company to bury two 115-kilovolt cables across tidelands off West Yarmouth. The cables would connect the wind farm to the main power grid that reaches onto the Cape. Chapter 91 is a state law that regulates the use of tidelands.

The state Department of Environmental Protection will conduct the public hearing on the permit application at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5 at Mattacheese Middle School.

People also can submit testimony in writing by 5 p.m. to Alex Strysky, DEP Waterways Regulation Program, One Winter St., 5th Floor, Boston MA 02108 or by e-mail to Alexander.strysky@state.ma.us.

In August, the state approved a water quality certificate for the cables.

The public hearing notice is posted at  www.mass.gov/dep/public/hearings/capewind.htm.

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10/29/08 @ 8:35 pm
Peter Kenney [Member] writes:
Gee....imgaine this: Cape Wind has somehow convinced the Commonwealth to classify its project as "water dependent."

Of course there is a problem with this....wind farms are not dependent on water but on wind AND....no one will sell Cape Wind the turbines they have specified. Two companies only have manufactured the 3.6MW turbine Cape Wind specified to Minerals Management Service (section 2.1.1)---GE and Siemens. GE discontinued their model 3.6s in 2006....2006! And Siemens will not sell theirs in the U.S.

Oh GEE! It looks like Jim Gordon has misinformed us, again. When will the bull stop? Then there is the radar issue...two retired pros from Raytheon telling Cape Wind's English radar "expert" that he is full of...well... clutter.

Does anyone out there recognize this name....Earl E. Devaney? If you do not, ask J. Steven Griles or Julie McDonald.
I think Griles is out of jail now and McDonald is back on the farm in California. They know Devaney (or he knows them) very well. Could Gordon be next?
10/30/08 @ 10:16 am
barbaradurkin [Member] writes:
Chapter 91 Waterway and Public Protection Act is one of the Commonwealth's oldest and most significant laws that poses a problem for Cape Wind as a "non-water" dependent project.

This is a serious "slight of hand" "reclassification" to "water dependent" by DEP in the middle of this project review. The DEP is reclassifying this project to accommodate a private developer at the expense of the public and the environment due protections under Chapter 91.

The DEP is attempting to rewrite Cape Wind project review history:

"Does the Department consider an underwater cable as being water dependent?"

"(DEP) If it qualifies as an infrastructure crossing facility and the Secretary determines that there is not an alternative, then it’s water dependent. But we determined that it’s not water dependent because it is not bank to bank."

CERTIFICATE OF THE SECRETARY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL NOTIFICATION FORM

"DEP must consider an infrastructure crossing to be non-water dependent (and thus categorically prohibited) under the Waterways Regulations..."
10/30/08 @ 4:48 pm
smahkcep [Visitor] writes:
Notice how nobody really cares Peter & Barbara?...

Ever wonder why?
10/30/08 @ 6:18 pm
barbaradurkin [Member] writes:
Stephen Peckham.

Which one of your Cape Wind friends is telling the truth, Jim Gordon or Mark Rodgers?

Cape Cod Times Sept. '08

"Although no manufacturer has been chosen by Cape Wind, a 3.6-megawatt turbine made by Germany-based Siemens or a 3.0-megawatt turbine made by Denmark's Vestas are being considered, Rodgers said."

“GE Wind Energy is part of one of America’s most successful technology companies, and we’re delighted to have selected GE to provide the wind turbines for the Cape Wind project.” said Jim Gordon, president of Energy Management, Inc."

http://www.gepower.com/about/press/en/2003_press/012103.htm


10/30/08 @ 7:53 pm
smahkcep [Visitor] writes:
Barbara, Barbara, Barbara...
Boom, boom, boom, boom... Boom, boom, boom, boom...
You're beating a very poorly made drum and no one with any sort of cognitive intellect is listening to (perhaps your target audience? - Yeah, that's it! - I almost forgot:)...

Other than YOU and the D'alliance NO-ONE... Repeat: NO ONE...
Really cares whether CAPE WIND uses a GE, SIEMENS, VESTUS or another [secret] turbine manufacturers unit... It simply don't matter!

MMS:
Don't care...
The Army Corps:
Don't care...
The State:
Don't care...

All that matters to them is that CAPE WIND ~WILL~ be built...
~Really~ soon.

ThInK... Of it this way:
If you were building a house and were planning on using a say A.O.Smith boiler & crud...
The size you wanted was not currently being made.
Your options might be:
Weil McLain, Bosch, Boderus, Baxi Megaflow etc...
Put an order of 130 in front of any one of them & you have their attention.

We ALL know that is TERRIFYING...

To you ~dear~ folks over @ the DARK SIDE.
...And I feel sad about that!
10/30/08 @ 8:24 pm
Peter Kenney [Member] writes:
Hey Smahkcep....have you ever heard of Earl E. Devaney? You would like him.

As far as your substitute boiler nonsense....there is only one other manyfacturer of 3.6MW turbines in the world, Siemens....and they will not sell them in the U.S. Grow up and smell the transformer oil, pal: an order for 130 wind turbines that requires a special tooling of an entire manufacturing facility when you already have orders for THOUSANDS of standard turbines just does not light happy bulb in companies who do billions of dollars annually in other sizes. You are now revealing your complete ignorance of the technical aspects of this project. According to the retired CEO of Raytheon and Dr. Eli Bruckner (designed much of Raytheon's radar fleet) the EXCAT turbine specs must be known for an adequate radar study. You do want an accurate radar study, don't you?

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. Here come the Gordonistas again. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM.

Turbines? We don't got no turbines...we don't need no stinkin' turbines!
10/30/08 @ 8:59 pm
maverick [Member] writes:
Peck..."the EXCAT turbine specs must be known for an adequate radar study".

Please tell me how the USCG can perform the required radar study when they have no idea what turbine will be used.

Boom, boom, boom.
10/30/08 @ 9:36 pm
barbaradurkin [Member] writes:
Cape Wind has represented their project will use GE 3.6 MW "discontinued" wind turbines.

Mark states Cape Wind is looking at Vestas and Seimens.

Siemens states they're booked out to 2011 with their 3.6; and they only intend to supply onshore wind turbines to the US.

Vestas CEO states on Cape Wind to the Globe:

"And, therefore, I am really wondering why anybody wants to put them up offshore because it’s twice the price. So just as an outsider, I am just scratching my head saying, “Why?”

Rodney's pointing his finger at USACE
claiming that the GE 3.6 was represented "before 2005", (CCTime's).

But, GE 3.6 MW representation is under Rodney's watch in the MMS draft EIS.

Rodney Cluck must know Earl Devaney who called DOI, in his OIG investigation of MMS, "a culture of ethical failure".



10/30/08 @ 10:12 pm
smahkcep [Visitor] writes:
BOOM BOOM!... BOOM BOOM!... BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM... BOOM!...

Sorry DARK SIDERS...

The radar consideration is primarily based on the overall 'blade imprint' in case you were...
Wondering.

As I said:
An order of 130 turbines...

Especially in the world economy as it stands...

Would make ANY turbine manufacturer...

Grease it's gear box but good.

Don't worry...

Be happy!

You will (eventually) when CAPE WIND...

Comes to a Sound near you:

NANTUCKET SOUND.

You are (ignorantly blissful and) blowing yourself...

In the wind.

~~Say there little D'alliance & naysayers etal...

CAPE WIND's gonna blow you away (good)...

Yer gonna get blown away, blown away...

But good~~

Ahwoooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

P.s. Barbara, can't you be original for a change?...

Sooooooooooo - BORING...

The same old quotes again & again...

What ever happened to the (er) old BD?

D'alliance got her tongue?
10/30/08 @ 10:13 pm
smahkcep [Visitor] writes:
Ahhhhhwooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
10/31/08 @ 12:30 am
nonesuch [Member] writes:
Oh, and how the silliness continues.

All such SMALL people, little thoughts, little lives.

Start thinking of yourself as an AMERICAN for once.

10/31/08 @ 1:17 am
smahkcep [Visitor] writes:
How profound ekzept!...

May I...

Oh, and how(ever)offer:

"Americans can eat garbage, provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup, mustard, chili sauce, tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper, or any other condiment which destroys the original flavor of the dish." - Henry Miller

In this case the "garbage":

Is the D'alliance...

The "original dish":

CAPE WIND.

Far from silly...

Further such from SMALL...

Thoughfully, AMERICAN...

For once...

For all.
10/31/08 @ 7:15 am
murrbuck [Member] writes:
Look, I'm just trying to learn things for myself, no boom boom awoos or insults please from either side of this conflict. thanks! :)
In a nutshell to me the way to go is with windpower- it's obviously the way to go. However, I am extremely wary of the corporate shit that is sure to abound and screw us- as always. That is the main source for my hesitation. And the arguments that have been persisting from both sides are such that someone like me (yes: I do matter) cannot look at this without thinking that Somebody somewhere in this mess is trying to screw us....but which ones and on which side?
10/31/08 @ 8:53 am
bft [Member] writes:
How will that Funding by Lehman Bros. be treating you these days.
10/31/08 @ 9:10 am
smahkcep [Visitor] writes:
murrbuck... Start with:

www.cleanpowernow.org...
Go to 'about wind & other renewables' then to 'about CPN' & 'FAQ'

You do matter...
Reducing the amount of fossil fuels we burn matters...
Cleaning up the environment we have detrimentally affected matters...

Our Oceans, Sounds, Bays, rivers, streams, lakes, ponds are being poisoned...
The water we drink, the fish & food we eat contain more & more of the deadly toxins such as MERCURY we are ingesting because of fossil fueled power plants...

OIL, COAL, GAS, etc recieve government subsidy, tax breaks etc even before they produce any electricity...

Wind generated power recieves tax breaks & incentives only AFTER they produce the power.

The government has provided incentives for renewable energy...
Because it is vitally important to help reduce these pollutants & the amount of gases that contribute to GLOBAL WARMNING...

CAPE WIND has answered the call & is only PART of the solution...
It is only a PART of the solution...

We need to do OUR part by supporting the project.
10/31/08 @ 2:27 pm
murrbuck [Member] writes:
Hey! Thanks so much Smah! :)
10/31/08 @ 2:41 pm
smahkcep [Visitor] writes:
Yur welcome my fellow blogslut!...

Just doing my part to spread the TRUTH as opposed to what the billionaire funded cabal would like you to beleive.
10/31/08 @ 2:43 pm
smahkcep [Visitor] writes:
"i before e... except after c":

'...believe.'
10/31/08 @ 3:59 pm
bft [Member] writes:
I believe it's GR before EED. That's what Capewind is about. They would build a coal plant if they could get the permits, it's all about profit to them.
10/31/08 @ 5:37 pm
Peter Kenney [Member] writes:
Smah...you are so full of it. Gordon is in fact going to build a new $400million gas fired plant in Westfield....how is that for an environmental good fairy? As far as who will take an order for 3.6MW turbines...you just do not know what you are talking about. Have you spoken to any manufacturers? I have. You are wrong, just plain wrong. Do your Damn homework, Sparky. One lousy order for $500 million + against a year's production of $14 billion or more...yeah, let's shut everything down, make these 130 units, forget about the other 4,000 that are ordered and kiss Little Jimmy's balance sheet. Makes sense to me.

As for your radar expertise, the two men who attended the radar conference who were the leading figures in radar at Raytheon...you have heard of Raytheon?...both said that an exact equipment specification and array is necessary for an accurate radar study. But, of course, you know more than they do. Right?

How can such a nice guy as you be such a dope?

Did you know that Rodney Cluck's PhD is in sociology? What a joke...and environmental sociologist. Like, wow....
10/31/08 @ 5:45 pm
Peter Kenney [Member] writes:
Here is something I find very interesting: the project manger for the MMS review of the Cape Wind application is Rodney E. Cluck, PhD. His doctorate is from Mississippi State University in Sociology, and his masters was also in sociology from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Prior to being in charge of analyzing Jim Gordon's dreams he was doing work at MMS in environmental sociology. I guess this means he is mainly a facilitator ...someone whose job it is to get us all to hold hands and chant...then reach 'consensus'. To hell with laws, rules, truthful specifications or any of that real world crap that stands of the way of real energy progress and more millions for Gordon. he wants us to feel good about renewable energy.

And, for those who would care to read the papers to which he contributed in the late 1990s for the Rural Sociology Society, he rails against the urban and the wealthy. Do I hear NIMBY?

Yup, a real intellectual heavyweight is our boy Rodney...and such stunning technical expertise. Can Oprah Winnfrey be far behind?

Devaney's graduate degree is in law. Oh!
10/31/08 @ 6:49 pm
Peter Kenney [Member] writes:
Smah....where are you, boy? Let's talk about who at MTC tried to hire the 'coal guy'. Oh My! Back then he was an expert....now he is a "coal guy"? I guess that makes Little Jimmie a "gas guy"?...

Little Jimmie is the fella who lied (misinformed) to that Harvard Business School fellow about the house he owns in South Yarmouth, "....two blocks from the Bass River." (Cape Wind case by prof. Richard H. K. Vietor, HBS 2008).

Now we have the Great Radar Scam...and you....loyal to the end. What is Little Jimmie's next scam? "Take this pill and live forever, just $2 billion plus shipping and handling. Money back guarantee...if you can find me."

By the way, where is Little Jimmie lately? He seems to be sending out his surrogate, Mark Rogers to all the public appearances. Is Little Jimmie afraid of answering questions? Hmmmmm? Hmmmm?

"Mr. Gordon, is it true you lied to MMS about the turbines you would be using?"
10/31/08 @ 8:52 pm
Peter Kenney [Member] writes:
Hey Smah---where are you? You seem to have dropped off my radar screen...actually I think you just got lost in the clutter, side load and shadowing. This damn wind farm is screwing everything up. How can my brand new Raytheon radar miss a tin-headed target as large as you?

Where is Dennis barber when you need him?.

Smah----hey Smah----is that you? You confusing little blip you....OOPS, watch out for that huge steel tube dead ahead.
11/01/08 @ 5:27 pm
smahkcep [Visitor] writes:
IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater...
As you can imagine I am a pretty popular guy...

Dinner party over my pad last evening & tonight over one of the sis & outlaws for more of the same.

Needless to say, last evening was also challanged by the need to scare the bjesus out of the children & adults who dared to show up @ my door...

Mission was adroitly accomplished however with little loss of blood letting.

Yes, I am/have been a very busy...

CAPE WIND SUPPORTER!

Of course, in due course you can expect to hear from me to reply to your rants & inane queries...

Be patient ye of little faith...

I will get back to you.

CAPE WIND...

Coming SOON to a Sound near you:

NANTUCKET SOUND!
11/01/08 @ 10:21 pm
smahkcep [Visitor] writes:
As you might imagine Peta...

I am in no condition to offer the 87%ile popular opine presently...

Pls b p-a-t-i-e-n-t...

Hic!
11/02/08 @ 3:36 pm
smahkcep [Visitor] writes:
Ahhhh Peta!... So refreshing to hear from you after all this time...

Tell you what...
Call the Mayor of Westfield, ask him what he thinks of EMI's gas turbine project... Pssst: He really, really likes!

As far as the availablity of the turbines goes...
My friend... You're barking up the wrong tree...
Just think now, if CAPE WIND can't get what they need, when they need them... Then I guess he will have to wait.

I don't think CAPE WIND is concerned at all... But feel free to be concerned for them ok? ;~)

Radar study?... That's old news Peter and well, let's just say: 'It's under control'... I know it still freaks you out but: Don't worry... Be happy!

Speaking of "heavyweights" maybe when Rodneys job comes up for review -you- might apply?...

Apparently, those who reviewed his qualifications for the job found him capable... In fact he is: Quite

P.s. Ever heard of staff & consultants?

P.p.s. What are your qualifications?... You working of late? Holding down a regular paid job?...

Opps!... Almost forgot: You work for the D'allianc
11/02/08 @ 3:58 pm
smahkcep [Visitor] writes:
Have no idea what you are talking about MTC & the coal guy... Feel free to elaborate.

And don't know one way or the other as far as the house in Yarmouth... Never been there.

Sorry to advise but I don't keep tabs on Jim Gordon... Give his office a ring & ask them if he is back yet from negotiating the deal with his turbine manufacturer.

Speaking of LIE... Can you tell me the source of "... you lied to MMS about the turbines..." That should be a good one!

Not that I am purrrrfect [but now that I mention it!] either but for the record it's: "...clutter, side LOBE (not "load") and shadowing."

"Where is Dennis barber..." -Huh?

Peter, 'tis you that is confusing & confused.

Seems to me the only thing that is "screwing" anything up is your sense of intelligent & honest reporting being messed with by your current employer the billionaire backed D'alliace cabal...

Shameful.

11/02/08 @ 9:41 pm
smahkcep [Visitor] writes:
Hey Peter---where are you? You seem to have dropped off my radar screen...actually I think you just got lost in the clutter, side LOBE and shadowing. This damn wind farm is screwing everything up. How can my brand new Raytheon radar miss a bald-headed target as LARGE as you?

Ha!...

'Pictures of Peter, Peter oh Peter...'

:)


11/03/08 @ 3:54 pm
smahkcep [Visitor] writes:
Dish it out but can't take the wind eh Peter?

Speak up!...

You wind bag!
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