Tag: U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Biggest problem facing offshore wind energy isn’t broken blades. It’s public...
Jim Boyd’s heart sank the first time he saw the now-infamous image of a fractured wind turbine blade dangling above the Atlantic Ocean.
Not because...
BOEM completes environmental analysis of offshore New England Wind Farm project
PROVIDENCE – The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced Monday that it has completed its environmental analysis of the proposed New England Wind...
Local nonprofit Green Oceans suing to overturn wind farm development approvals
LITTLE COMPTON – A local nonprofit organization has filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., against multiple U.S. agencies over...
Portsmouth Town Council approves host agreement with SouthCoast Wind
Faced with receiving $23 million or nothing, the Portsmouth Town Council begrudgingly approved an agreement that allows a Massachusetts offshore wind farm developer access...
Newport, B.I. preservation groups sue to stop offshore wind farms, saying...
NEWPORT – Decrying what it calls the fast-tracking of hundreds of skyscraper-high structures that would dwarf the Statue of Liberty, the Preservation Society of...
As U.S. East Coast ramps up offshore wind power projects, much...
POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. (AP) – As the U.S. races to build offshore wind power projects, transforming coastlines from Maine to South Carolina, much...
Fewer turbines but more conflict for Revolution Wind farm
The fishing industry and offshore wind developers are again at odds over how a mammoth array of 80-story-high wind turbines will affect ocean species,...
Revolution Wind developer to pay $3.5M to R.I. fishermen for undersea...
PROVIDENCE – Initial tensions between Rhode Island fishermen and an offshore wind developer over the project’s cable burial plan have dissipated, eased by a...
Supporters tout environmental, economic benefits of Revolution Wind at meeting
EAST GREENWICH – The offshore wind industry has not always been embraced with open arms.
But criticism was noticeably absent from a Wednesday meeting about...
Five Questions With: Tricia Jedele
Tricia Jedele | Atlantic Coast offshore wind policy manager, The Nature Conservancy
1. This is a new position for The Nature Conservancy. What does...
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