ENB #103 - Valerie Pinamonti - Attorney, Law Contracts, Safety, and experience on over 50 wind farm fields. Get the inside baseball on wind and safety.

ENB #103 - Valerie Pinamonti - Attorney, Law Contracts, Safety, and experience on over 50 wind farm fields. Get the inside baseball on wind and safety. This is a great conversation with Valerie about safety and renewable energy. As an attorney with years of experience in wind farm projects, she has seen every side of the good and bad of wind farms. With the real questions that are coming out about the viability of ESG investments in renewable, There are some other serious considerations as well. Safety in energy is equally critical in the oil and gas and renewable sectors. We need low-cost, reliable energy for all citizens of the world without printing money to get there. Valerie gave us some examples and one horrific example of bad safety practices. In one of her wind farm projects, there were 3 deaths in as many months. Cutting safety corners to save money is horrible. But the profitability of wind farms has come into a real concern. I have been researching the failure rates of wind farms to incorporate in future articles, and the early numbers show that they may not be profitable after only 8 years. This is due to the high maintenance costs, including labor, oil, and other fossil fuels, to keep them running. My interview with Donn Dears about the Clean Energy Crisis has a lot of data and coincides with what Valerie has experienced. Valery, thank you for stopping by the Energy News Beat Podcast and sharing your great experiences and ideas. - Stu Victor, Thank you for setting this up. It meant a lot - Stu. Other recent stories from ENB on the ESG concerns for Wind Farms. Dead whales and tough economics bedevil Biden’s massive wind energy push – Will oil save the whales the 2nd time? January 28, 2023 Mariel Alumit Climate Crisis, ENB Pub Note, Energy Transition, Renewables, Top News, US Energy News, Wind People stand next to a dead humpback whale that washed up on the beach in Brigantine, New Jersey, U.S., January 13, 2023. REUTERS/Rachel Wisniewski (Rachel Wisniewski / reuters) Connect with Valerie Pinamonti on her LinkedIn Follow Stuart On LinkedIn and Twitter ENB Top News ENB Energy Dashboard ENB Podcast ENB Substack