In her June 29th opinion piece for CommonWealth Voices, Kate Sinding Daly asks if rumors about the death of offshore wind power are, in the words of Mark Twain, “greatly exaggerated.” In spite of all the fossil fuel industry lobbying and Trump administration threats, “Turbines continued going up, large-scale projects got built and began turning wind into electricity, and the wind projects continued their progress toward construction.” In fact, Daly writes, “the industry is quietly completing massive projects that will supply power to millions of homes.” In Martha’s Vineyard, for example, “Vineyard Wind has quietly—very quietly—managed to get back to work on its 806-megawatt project. [It will] power 400,000 homes in Massachusetts, revitalize the port of New Bedford, and generate 2,000 jobs. The project is now generating electricity from 10 to 62 planned turbines…and has survived in the face of relentless attacks from the Trump administration, fossil fuel proponents, and greenwashing fronts. Baseless charges that wind power kills whales; lawsuits targeting transmission cables, substations, and transmission cables; phony “grassroots” organizations bankrolled by waterfront homeowners and/or oil and gas companies; attacks by the Trump bureaucracy—all so far have failed. Silence about success…seems to be a part of the strategy.” Read the full article. Just keep it to yourself.