November 13, 2024 — A radio station in Quebec is reporting that top executives at a manufacturing plant in Canada — where turbine blades have been manufactured for Vineyard Wind — ordered workers to falsify data, which offers new insight into what may have gone wrong earlier this summer when a blade fractured off the Vineyard’s coast.
Radio Gaspesie, citing anonymous sources at the end of the October, reported that an investigation conducted by lawyers with GE Vernova — subcontractors building Vineyard Wind turbines — found that senior company executives at LM Wind Power in Gaspé were asking employees to “falsify quality control data.”
The unnamed sources said that the executives created a points system that “encouraged employees to skip verification steps,” which prioritized “production quantity over quality,” the Gaspesie report states.
The station, which covers the Gaspé Peninsula — an area along the south shore of the St. Lawrence River — also reports that the “falsification scheme” may have led to a wave of layoffs at the plant.
The Times could not independently verify the Radio Gaspesie report.