#1 more than eight million visitors are attracted to what Worcester is

And how do those 8 million get to OC? I think we know the answer and it is known that one gallon of gasoline weighing about 7 lbs is transformed into about 20 lbs of CO2, since the Hydrogen atoms are replaced by Oxygen atoms and Oxygen being 8 times heavier than Hydrogen accounts for the apparent magic of the weight gain. So for each gallon consumed, 20 lbs of CO2 is dumped in air. So it seems to me that if OC can help replace some of that pollution from transportation to and from our shores by replacing our electrical energy sources by “clean” sources, it could be used as a marketing tool and as visitors gaze out to the horizon and see a windmill, it should make them happy to know they are contributing to the mitigation of the effect of their own pollution.

#2 primary economic drivers……are falling prey to greedy, external predators

I for one was taught that when I make an assertion blaming my situation on others I should do the readers the courtesy of specifying who those “others” are in order that those hearing my blame passing would know who to be mad at. Instead we are left to shout at the sky, which we all know is the most productive way to address the issue in a constructive and perhaps even an effective manner.

#3 by the institutions of government that smile upon the promises of foreign business interests that rely heavily on taxpayer subsidies to fund their uncertain startups

Again, we are given a reason to be angry and someone to blame, actual a multitude of someones so we can be assured that we are being picked on by “them.”

#4 Testing procedures are wreaking havoc on fragile aquatic life. Dead whales on the beach. Disoriented dolphins washing ashore. The threat to horseshoe crabs, which are critical to cancer and other medical research, is said to be unknown.

Again, proof by assertion is often good enough to stir public outcry, this assertion by Mr. Bertino is easily debunked and I will let the interested reader and Mr. Bertino debunk it for themselves, Simply do a search on the phrase “electromagnetic fields generated by the underwater transmission lines” a pick your own rebuttal source. At the very least become better informed as I would have expected an elected representative to have done prior to advancing such falsehoods on his constituents. At the very least he could point out the beaches where dead whales and disoriented dolphins are so we could view them for ourselves. Whales and Dolphins die, if they are not eaten by other critters they will end up on shore just as any other flotsam. These animals, even us humans, live in an electromagnetic environment, the Earths and those generated by our electric grid, cell phones, the internet, even when you start you car you generate an EMP. We know how to do the research and it appears to be in progress. Expanding our horizon from that seen on the OC beaches to the rest of the world, where wind power has been in use for many years, we haven’t seen the show stopper impact of windmills and undersea transmission lines to sea critters predicted by Mr. Bertino, but the effects on birdlife are pretty well understood and mitigated in many places.

#5 How will endangered sea turtles, sturgeon, and right whales survive the navigational impacts of the electromagnetic fields generated by the underwater transmission lines? I believe they will be victimized.

Finally we have victims other than ourselves, however it is not necessary to base our concern on the “belief” of Mr. Bertino but rather on quantitative evidence. Here are three links to quite nice articles which demonstrates how this concern is being addressed by relevant scientific communities. Read them at your own risk of being better informed on this issue.

www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-60793-x#Tab1

www.seagrantenergy.org/liaison-updates/effects-and-impacts-of-emf-radiation

www.sciencenews.org/article/magnetism-underwater-power-cables-doesnt-deter-sea-life

Use of “victimized” to describe the impacts is designed to inflame the reader but does not convey any information of utility to the reader.

That’s all folks, victimhood lives on and is so comforting…..