Updated 6:15pm
A Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board hearing slated for March 24 at 7 pm has been postponed, according to a Mayflower Wind statement. The hearing was meant to address a Mayflower Wind proposal to lay an offshore wind export cable along a route that would pass through Nantucket, Edgartown, Oak Bluffs, and Tisbury waters before making landfall in Falmouth. Mayflower Wind is a 50-50 offshore wind partnership between Ocean Winds, a European joint venture, and the petroleum giant Shell. Mayflower Wind has a federal lease area in the Atlantic in roughly the same vicinity as Vineyard Wind’s lease areas.
The 27½-mile cable is anticipated to transmit between “200 and 345 kilovolts” of electricity, according to a hearing notice.
Landfall is expected to be on Worcester Court in Falmouth. An alternative landfall site has been proposed at Central Park in Falmouth. An electrical substation is anticipated at Lawrence Lynch Corp. in Falmouth.
“Mayflower Wind’s Falmouth project EFSB hearing, originally scheduled for this Thursday evening, March 24, has been temporarily postponed while Mayflower Wind seeks additional information requested by Falmouth town officials,” Mayflower Wind wrote. “Once rescheduled, notification will be sent to abutters, and notice of the hearing will be published.”
Come what may with the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board, the cable project still requires conservation commission review, according to Edgartown conservation agent Jane Varkonda.
More information on the project can be found on the notice itself, which is posted on the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board website at bit.ly/MayWindcable.
Updated with additional information about the postponement of the hearing.
In Falmouth after the cables go under the beach the EMF -Electric Magnetic Fields jump up to over 500 MG milligauss.
“Directly above buried cables, in middle of beach 10 mG”
“Directly above buried cables, at edge of beach 10 mG”
“Directly above buried cable transition vault, in parking lot or street median 350 mG”
“Directly above buried cable duct bank, in roadway 500 mG”
Frank
Thanks for pointing out the issue of EMF’s. Could you take a little time to inform us as to what those numbers mean?
Just one more reason to be aware of your electrical usage. — Conserving electricity is currently the most economical and safest way to deal with a wide variety of grid related issues.
The link below is pretty informative in a general sense .
“Power lines. Currently, there are no federal restrictions on EMFs from power lines in either residential or occupational settings.”
https://www.healthline.com/health/emf#EMFs-in-daily-life