Among Nantucket's demands are improved communications, inclusion in emergency response planning, and contingency funding. Officials also want Vineyard Wind to pay $250,000 for past communication failures, and $25,000 per turbine per day if the required aircraft lighting reduction system remains inactive.

A Nantucket official claims Vineyard Wind’s leadership has "essentially gone into hiding” since a blade fell into the ocean last year.

At a press conference Tuesday, town officials said Vineyard Wind has repeatedly failed to communicate critical information and has polluted the sky with its turbines’ lights.

According to officials on Nantucket, the developer of the nation's first utility-scale offshore wind project is "hiding" and not responding to their safety queries since Donald Trump's election.

Less than two weeks after settling with an offshore wind manufacturer over last year’s turbine blade failure for $10.5 million, Nantucket leaders laid out a list of demands of Vineyard Wind on Tuesday that include establishing new communication protocols,

Officials in Massachusetts' Nantucket island on Tuesday accused the developer of the nation's first utility-scale offshore wind project of not responding to their safety queries since Donald Trump's election after a massive wind turbine broke apart last year and its fragments washed up on beaches.

Getting information about the state's only offshore wind project under construction has been difficult in the last six months. CAI and the Martha's Vineyard Times teamed up last week to visit Vineyard Wind by boat,