Letter to the Editor
May 8, 2013
Narragansett Town Council
25 Fifth Ave.
Narragansett, RI 02882
Dear President Callaghan and Members:
It was a rare Democratic process I participated in on May 6, 2013 on the issue of DeepWater Wind. The meeting was exceptionally well conducted. The dialogue was informed and spirited, with rounds of applause graciously accepted by the President and Council Members.
While I have difficulty comprehending that tripling energy cost, to make the energy supply less reliable, is something a person must argue against, I am grateful for the opportunity to provide comments in person, and this evidence that supports them.
The business history of UPC First Wind affiliates and subsidiaries is remarkable because their wind projects consistently fail to produce energy, yet developers continue to collect public subsidies, from Italy to Hawaii; or their wind projects have been seized by anti-Mafia Police during Operation “Gone With the Wind” as (7) Italian Vento Power Corporation IVPC projects in Italy, with office located at “Via Circumvallazione 108, Avellino.”
It is for the reasons below stated, and more, that I ask the Council to end, beyond suspend, negotiations with DeepWater Wind. Please do not hesitate to call, or to contact me by email, for clarification or additional information regarding the evidence that follows; or about UPC testimony attached.
Most Respectfully,
Barbara Durkin
Northboro, MA
Cell:
Attachment–UPC testimony on their Italian Vento Power Corporation affiliate/subsidiary
My evidence narrative below is in plain font. Quotes are italicized.
Who is DeepWater Wind?—from RI PUC Docket 4111>
Deepwater will draw on First Wind’s technical, development and commercial financing expertise. First Wind’s Chief Executive Officer, Paul Gaynor, and President, Michael Alvarez, are Deepwater board members and have been actively involved in the preparation of this proposal.
http://www.ripuc.org/
First Wind Hawaii project(s) history, Big Cable, Big Wind:
Navigant Report that addressed Hawaii Subsea Cable for the State of Hawaii responds to the proposed the Big Wind Big Cable project in Hawaii. The Report informs First Wind has responded to the Request for Proposals RFP process for this, the state’s biggest green contract in history. Navigant Report also informs First Wind has no undersea experience. Project costs would be socialized regardless of failure to operate, or project delays. First Wind has failed to gain site control.
While proposing comprehensive packages of wind farm and cable systems in their initial proposals to HECO, neither wind farm developer had any experience in the development of undersea cables. The studies upon which the cable portion for these “comprehensive” proposals was based were, at best early stage, desk top evaluations and surveys. Upon further study, certain cable routes were apparently problematic.
Navigant Report: http://energy.hawaii.gov/wp-
Informative article:
‘Hawaiis Biggest Clean Energy Contract Generating Big Interest’:
First Wind Project failures–Kahuku in Hawaii–land-based with (12) Clipper Wind turbines, offline:
Hawaii Free Press
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Hawaii Free Press
Subject: US House Report Funding for Kahuku Windfarm is “Junk” Industrial Solar Failing
March 25, 2012
Hawaii Free Press
December 6, 2011
‘Confidential Memo: Wind Turbine Model Installed at Kahuku has Structural Problems’
http://www.hawaiifreepress.
Hawaii Free Press
November 13, 2011
‘Mafia-Connected FirstWind Got $117M in Federal Loans for Kahuku Windfarm’
Hawaii Free Press
‘Hawaii Wind Developer tied to Largest-ever asset seizure by anti-Mafia police’
March 28, 2011
by Andrew Walden
Paul Gaynor, CEO of First Wind stood comfortably with Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie, Rep Mazie Hirono, and HECO CEO Dick Rosenblum at the grand opening of the Kahuku Wind energy project on Oahu’s North Shore Thursday.
As he should.
The Financial Times September 14, 2010 explains:
First Wind–formerly known as UPC Wind–got its start in wind energy by launching Italy’s IVPC–a company now subject to a record breaking asset seizure by Italian police.
Italian anti-mafia police have made their largest seizure of assets as part of an investigation into windfarm contracts in Sicily. Officers confiscated property and accounts valued at €1.5bn belonging to a businessman suspected of having links with the mafia.
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UPC First Wind Italy>
UPC First Wind subsidiary and affiliate Italian Vento Power Corporation IVPC Director Oreste Vigorito has been indicted for and criminal conspiracy and wind fraud in Italy.
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/
Brian Caffyn and Peter Gish co-founded UPC that is First Wind that formed DeepWater Wind. UPC (Brian Caffyn) is Italian Vento Power Corporation IVPC affiliate and subsidiary (Oreste Vigorito), I provide this evidence from Southern CA Edison SCE-
http://www.sce.com/nr/sc3/tm2/
Southern California Edison:
http://www.sce.com/nr/sc3/tm2/
Resolution E-3539 specified that the following information be provided upon the creation of a new affiliate:
New Affiliate Name: Italian Vento Power Corporation 4 S.r.l.
Date this affiliate was created: March 15, 2000
Headquarters: via Circumcallazione
83100 Avellino, Italy Primary Officers (Directors): Marco Ferrando, Clive Warden (EME representatives)
James Houston, (partners representative)
Brain Caffyn, (partners representative)
Oreste Vigorito (partners representative)
Contact for CPUC: James A. Kelly, (626) 302-2284
Intended Function: To build, own and operate wind power plants in
Italy for the purpose of selling electricity at a profit.
THE TESTIMONY OF UPC: (UPC testimony attached document)
“The IVPC subsidiaries achieved an exceptional operating record, with its wind turbines available 98.5% of the time on a fleet-wide basis…”
UPC Subsidiary IVPC is the focus of “Gone with the wind” investigation into failing wind projects. Seven IVPC projects were seized by Anti-Mafia Police.
By Guy Dinmore in Financial Times, November 12, 2009
“President of Italian Wind Energy Association arrested for fraud By Guy Dinmore in Financial Times, November 12, 2009 “Gone with the wind”, mounted by the finance ministry’s anti-fraud police, started in 2007 and began by blocking public subsidies worth €9.4m ($14m, £8.4m) granted by the ministry for economic development. Last year police confiscated seven wind farms with 185 turbines in Sicily linked to IVPC. Anti-Mafia prosecutors in Sicily have launched a parallel investigation. The Financial Times was told in April that a large number of wind farms had been built with public subsidies but had never functioned. Police said yesterday they had sent requests for documentation to five foreign companies – two in the Netherlands and three in Spain – that were linked to IVPC. Other companies in Ireland and the UK, said to be Italian affiliates of IVPC, have been asked by Italian authorities to provide information. Police also said they were carrying out checks on 12 companies in Italy, including nine with company names that are variations of IP Maestrale and which share the same street name and number as IVPC in Avellino, near Naples.
Financial Times article (clip above) reprint in its entirety, here: http://redneckusa.wordpress.
References–criminal conspiracy indictments for wind fraud Oreste Vigorito of IVPC affiliate of UPC First Wind-
Italian to English translation by Google
The Italian Parliament Senate of the Republic -125- Chamber of Deputies: (Energy from page 10 forward)
Italian Parliament Senate of the Republic Chamber of Deputies clip that I have not italicized, as appears-
Operation “Gone with the Wind,” conducted by the Prosecutor of the Repub-
Republic at the Court of Avellino and which was already required
the indictment of five people for participation in association
criminal conspiracy (Article 416), fraud and attempted consumed (Article 640-bis
cp) against the State, aimed at raising finance pub-
lic for the construction of wind farms
121
, Marks the return to the scene
crime of the unlawful purpose of exploitation of wind energy Nicastri
Vito, along with other dell’avellinese. They, in order to obtain-
Senate of the Republic
Chamber of Deputies
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121
See request for a hearing of the Republic of Italy Proc n.1091 /
+803 07/09 RG News of the crime 2.11.09. Doc no. 431/1.
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black unduly the facilities provided by Decree-Law 22 October
1992, no. 415, converted, with amendments, by Law of 19 December
1992 n. 488, concluded fictitious transfers of surface rights or af-
land rents for the installation of wind turbines, secondly, with the
complicity of unfair bank officials they prepared false investigations
about the solvency of the bank `society and those of your partners and
false technical reports on the full usefulness of the land for farms. In
more December the society in Sicilian Wind Srl, Cooperative Duecci a rl and Wind South Srl, headed by Nicastri, succumbed to society Avellino
IVPC 2 Srl Sicily and Sicily IVPC 4 Srl, headed by Vigorito
Orestes, the business units for wind power, but soon after they were pro-
learned in bank notes of “termination” or “cancellation” of contracts af-
dense and disposal of surface apocryphal signature of the owner of ter-
kidneys, through which the transferee society camped a claim
force majeure in the delay allegedly innocent state
progress of work on time, resulting in the extension `
24 to 48 months of the date for completion of the plant.
To these should be added that `the judicial chronicles the last months of-
The year 2010 brought to public attention some ul-
obtain further events related to contracts for wind energy, the DIA, in fact,
in September seized assets for € 1.5 billion to
an entrepreneur born in Alcamo, the lord of the wind, as defined
by the Financial Times, fearing that even the dummy boss
Mafia Matteo Messina Denaro.
Along these lines also fit the events that have as
starring a Sardinian entrepreneur, who was arrested in July 2010 on
order of the Roman magistracy in the investigation procurement.
In particular, the survey Sicilian investigators have recog-
constructed map sheet of the last thirty years and found that there
a disproportion between the possessions dall’indagato and earnings.
The exercise of the `business is to create and
subsequent sale of wind farms, with revenues of millionaires, considering that
each megawatt product is sold about two million euro. Also
the same entrepreneur was arrested in November 2009 for embezzlement
public perception of contributions, at the end of a complex investigation
he had brought to light a complex system of fraud against the
Finalized the undue perception of public funds for the construction
tion of wind farms
122
.
A particular, that may be curious, consists in the fact that the im-
Sicilian nominee borrower is not even a wind turbine,
as its function the developer of wind farms, limiting
that is, to buy land and obtain licenses from the administrative
tion rooms, and then sell “turnkey” the wind farm.
Senate of the Republic
Chamber of Deputies
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122
See article on “Gazzetta del Sud” of 15 September 2010, p. 1.
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The business system, put SO standing for three phases in order
to ensure higher profit margins and allow a high nu-
ber of society to participate in the company. In the first stage was
site identification, hoarding of public funds, the authorization
tions and paperwork were satisfied with this step the
politicians through donations needed to be successful
end the practice legal circumstances emerged in the already mentioned investigation ‘Aeolus’.
Then, with the second phase, enriched local businesses, which were
contracted earthmoving, construction of the plant and all activities
related. In the end, once completed, the park was sold to
great society of the North, from Germany, Denmark, from-
England, Northern Italy, but also leading to a deal
extremely beneficial
123
.
The massive seizure confirmed, once again, the interest of
Mafia in the wind, so much is that the Director of the Dia pro tempore, An-
Antonio Pool, could say that “there are several activities on the Jun-
diziario ensuring that they are in many areas such as alternative energy
tive there are clear entries of organized crime ”
124
, To demon-
stration that the attractiveness of the incentives, the difficult procedures for the award
tion and high profitability is of the production of the final energy, attracts
interests of the clans in the investment on wind
125
.
Finally, it must accennarsi an investigation procurement of Roman-
the wind farm in Sardinia which intersects with the Romagna capital trans-
Sitati in illegally on some banks in the Republic of
San Marino and that led to the commissioner of the credit of Ro-
magna and enrollment on the list of suspects to 19 between officials
banks and entrepreneurs. Among these are some lenders that in the In-
government at the turn of 2009 and 2010 would have paid Sardinian entrepreneur
about four million euro, in order to make investments in
renewable energy in Sardinia
126
, The group of investors Romagna
was made available to the contractor for the considerable sum
act as a facilitator (note the unmistakable analogy with the profession
developer) against political Sardinian
127
.
It should be noted, finally, that in consideration
the increasing number of illegal interference of organized crime in
the production of wind energy, the National Directorate Anti-
mafia
128
during a meeting on 20 May 2010, at which
attended by several prosecutors district has initiated a monitoring
criminal cases pending in various districts related to the field of e-
Senate of the Republic
Chamber of Deputies
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123
See article on “L’Unione Sarda” of 19 September 2010, p. 7.
124
See article on “Earth” of 15 September 2010 p. 1.
125
See interview with GR1 of 14 September 2010.
126
See article on “Earth” of 16 September 2010 p. 3.
127
See article on “L’Unione Sarda” of August 4, 2010, p. 7.
128
See article on “L’Unione Sarda” of 19 September 2010, p. 7.
I have selected this article ‘INQUIRY/WIIND…” that provides an overview that is consistent with my evidence collected since 2008 on UPC Limited Liability Corporations, LLC. My evidence parallels and matches evidence collected by 94 U.S. Citizens from New York and Vermont to California. These citizens have filed a complaint under the Sherman Antitrust Act against UPC that is First Wind with the Department of Justice.
http://www.cohoctonfree.com/
The next article is informative regarding Oreste Vigorito subsidiary of First Wind, Italian Vento Power Corporation IVPC, (as well as supported by UPC testimony attached, and Southern CA Edison evidence of the creation of this UPC affiliate and subsidiary.
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From: Green Warriors of Norway <[email protected]>
Subject: PRESS RELEASE; SALMON pandemic in NORWAY!
Message Body:
The environmental rights activist group, the Green Warriors of Norway (Norges Miljøvernforbund), started 11 April a nationwide campaign aimed at convenience stores that sell sick / infected fish. All grocery stores are targets for action when nearly all farmed salmon sold are ill and / or infected with ISA and / or PD.
There is a pandemic of PD and ISA in Norwegian salmon farms. Both diseases destroy the salmon meat. There is also a risk to buy salmon with mykobakteriose that humans can be infected by. In addition, customers will be informed by distributing brochures. This Norwegian salmon is also exported for sale in the rest of the world.
PRESS RELEASE; SALMON pandemic in NORWAY!
Green Warriors of Norway [email protected] via p3nlhg632.shr.prod.phx3.secureserver.net
Activists will fill shopping carts with salmon products in the stores, and leave these in the store with a sticker reading “Contains sick / infected farmed salmon.” In addition, stickers with the same text will be applied on the remaining salmon products in the freezer disk. After this, information leaflets will be distributed outside the shops.
Campaign leader Kurt Oddekalv justifies such action:
“All salmon sold are ill and / or infected without customers being informed, which I think is totally reprehensible. We have a tradition in Norway that we do not sell food that is infected with the disease. Norwegian farmers must adhere to a strict set of rules calling for slaughter and destruction of herds with dangerous diseases. Meanwhile, all farmed salmon sold in the Norwegian grocery is sick / infected without customers being informed about it. The Green Warriors of Norway have taken on the job of informing customers today. We expect the sale of sick / infected salmon hereafter shall cease. ”
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