Windfall, Part 4: Port of Departure

Outside/In

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Billions of dollars in investment will rain down on the cities that are best positioned to launch America’s offshore wind industry. But not every city can become the “wind capital of America.” Where is it gonna drizzle, and where is it gonna pour? Windfall is the story of a promising renewable technology and the potential of wind power in a changing climate. It’s a story about who has the power to reshape our energy future. Featuring: Ziven Drake, Dana Rebeiro, Jesper Bank, and Lars Pederson. Part 4 of 5. SUPPORT Windfall is made possible with member-support. Click here to become a sustaining member of Outside/In. Subscribe to our newsletter. LINKS A note about our reporting process Time-lapse of a (European) jack-up barge in action CREDITS Co-hosts: Sam Evans-Brown and Annie Ropeik Written and reported by Sam Evans-Brown and Jack Rodolico Senior Producer: Jack Rodolico Executive Producer: Erika Janik Mixing: Taylor Quimby Fact-checking: Sara Sneath Editors: Erika Janik, Annie Ropeik, Justine Paradis, Taylor Quimby, Felix Poon, and Hannah McCarthy Special thanks to Music: Ben Cosgrove, Blue Dot Sessions, and Breakmaster Cylinder Windfall Graphic Design: Sara Plourde Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Outside in is committed to journalistic rigor and transparency.
0:06.4	To learn about the reporting process for this series, please visit windfallpodcast.org.
0:12.8	Heads up, there is one curse word in this episode.
0:15.8	Okay, on with the show.
0:18.5	So, could you just speak into that microphone for a second?
0:30.1	Here I go. Here I go. Here I go. Again, girls, what's my weakness?
0:34.1	Man, okay, then chillin, chillin, monoma business.
0:37.1	I should have looked around and I couldn't believe this.
0:40.1	I swear, I stare.
0:42.1	That was funny.
0:44.1	What is that?
0:45.1	Shoop, salt and pepper.
0:49.1	This person, with the absolutely fearless mic check, is Ziven Drake.
0:53.1	My name is Ziven Drake.
0:55.1	I am a member of local union 56 pile drivers and commercial divers of Boston.
1:00.1	We talked last fall, just before the beginning of the holiday COVID spike.
1:04.1	We met up in a state park, but it was pouring rain, so we hit under a pavilion.
1:09.1	Ziven and around three dozen other pile drivers were the very first American workers
1:14.1	to be trained and certified to work on offshore wind projects.
1:18.1	The union put the training together with the Massachusetts Maritime Academy
1:21.1	and the wind industry to get ready for what's coming.
1:24.1	They put us in survival suits and put us out in Buzzards Bay.
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