More debris is falling into the ocean from a damaged offshore wind turbine blade, and project developer Vineyard Wind said Wednesday night that a remaining…
More debris is falling into the ocean from a damaged offshore wind turbine blade, and project developer Vineyard Wind said Wednesday night that a remaining piece of the blade could soon plummet.
A mysterious incident damaged one blade on a turbine undergoing testing over the weekend, scattering debris that later washed up in the form of large and small fiberglass and foam pieces on Nantucket's southern beaches more than 15 miles away. "One of the blades on one of the positions was broken and folded over, bended over, and was not pointing in direction that it should," he said."The way the system acts, it's an automatic system, so the system actually shuts it down. And that's what happened here."
"I want to apologize for our look at phones, I didn't mean to offend anyone, but it was because we were informed just now that there's been a development to the integrity of the blade," Moeller told the board and attendees at the livestreamed public meeting."We know very little because we've been sitting here, but I just want to inform you that there's a development on the integrity of the rest of the blade, and I need to respond to that.
Residents and other interested parties who attended the meeting expressed outrage about the incident, its impact on the island and potential consequences for marine life.
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