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These news and opinion items are gathered by National Wind Watch in its noncommercial educational effort to help keep readers informed about developments related to industrial wind energy. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions of National Wind Watch. They are the products of and owned by the organizations or individuals noted and are shared here according to “fair use” and “fair dealing” provisions of copyright law.


February 24, 2024 • Rhode IslandPrint storyE-mail story

Portsmouth residents voice concerns over off-shore wind turbine

Some Portsmouth residents are expressing their concerns over an electrical cable that would connect off-shore wind turbines to the power grid at Brayton Point. The cable would run through the Sakonnet River along the east side of Aquidneck Island. The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management held a public hearing Friday night at which many Portsmouth residents expressed concerns over the burial of the cable dredging up pollution from the bottom of the river, while also harming marine life. “This . . . Complete story »


January 27, 2024 • Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Opinions, Rhode Island, U.S.Print storyE-mail story

Offshore wind and the stress on commercial fishermen

Congressional Republicans are sounding the Mayday alarm this weekend to the grave challenges commercial fishermen face resulting from the Biden administration’s offshore wind agenda. Offshore wind development is placing enormous stress on the American commercial fishing fleet, which may not survive these challenges. A trio of coastal lawmakers, Reps. Andy. Harris (R-Md.), Chris Smith (R.-N.J.), and Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) will explore offshore wind farm interactions at an upcoming hearing, which their colleagues and the public should heed. President Joe . . . Complete story »


January 18, 2024 • Rhode IslandPrint storyE-mail story

Portsmouth Town Council begrudgingly 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 to town property under which to bury power cables. The 18-page host community agreement, approved by a 5-1 vote of the council Tuesday, gives SouthCoast Wind Energy LLC access to town property. The easements will be used so the Massachusetts wind developer can bury 2 miles of high-voltage, underground transmission lines below town roads, meant to . . . Complete story »


January 12, 2024 • Letters, Rhode IslandPrint storyE-mail story

Wind turbines pose environmental risks

Recent letters slamming the Preservation Society’s lawsuit against the Bureau of Ocean En­ergy Management are an unfor­tunate result of all the misinfor­mation about wind power that has been trafficked by the “green” lobby for years now. But I agree the lawsuit’s about money, all right: It’s the billions being made from tax­payer and ratepayer subsidies by the developers, without regard for the consequences. Regardless of the approval and promotion of this project by other entities, permitting by agencies like BOEM . . . Complete story »


December 5, 2023 • Rhode IslandPrint storyE-mail story

Ex-Navy secretary demands halt to RI wind farm that will ‘obliterate quality of life’ and won’t ‘ever’ reduce carbon emissions

A former US Navy secretary and long-serving diplomat has called on the Biden administration and Congress to halt plans for immense offshore wind farms near Rhode Island and Massachusetts. J. William Middendorf warned in an Oct. 24 letter to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the projects were being “ramrodded through a deficient regulatory process despite the controversy over their acknowledged impacts and questionable benefits,” according to a copy exclusively obtained by The Post. The 99-year-old Middendorf . . . Complete story »


December 1, 2023 • Press releases, Rhode IslandPrint storyE-mail story

Preservation Society of Newport County’s answers to frequently asked questions regarding appeals of BOEM’s permitting of offshore wind industrialization

The Preservation Society of Newport County has received numerous media inquiries since it announced on November 22, 2023, that it was appealing federal agency approval of two wind farms off the Rhode Island coast in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The appeals detail the failure of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to comply with the heightened levels of review required under the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Historic Preservation Act. Developers have . . . Complete story »


November 29, 2023 • Rhode IslandPrint storyE-mail story

Newport mansions owner sues federal government over wind farm it says will mar views

Two Rhode Island preservation groups have filed lawsuits against the federal government claiming it conducted “sham regulatory reviews” when granting the permits of two offshore wind farm projects they say would block the ocean views of the historic Newport mansions. Key Facts The Preservation Society of Newport County and the Southeast Lighthouse Foundation filed lawsuits in federal court in Washington, D.C., claiming the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approved the projects without considering the impact to the area’s “irreplaceable character . . . Complete story »


November 26, 2023 • Rhode IslandPrint storyE-mail story

Block Island and Newport preservationists fight to protect Rhode Island from massive wind farms

A month ago, after Cape May County, New Jersey, filed a federal lawsuit to stop two immense Ørsted wind farms, the company responded by announcing they were canceling their plans, leaving unfinished construction, citing their inability to predict financial pressures on the project, not widespread community opposition. Two senior staff have left the company, and management is being shifted as one project after another face an insecure future. Yesterday, Rhode Island took a double-barreled action with federal appeals being filed . . . Complete story »


November 25, 2023 • Rhode IslandPrint storyE-mail story

Newport, Block Island preservation groups sue to stop offshore wind farms

Decrying what it calls the fast-tracking of hundreds of skyscraper-high structures that would dwarf the Statue of Liberty, the Preservation Society of Newport County filed two appeals in federal court on Nov. 22 to vacate the permits issued and halt the development of two offshore wind farms planned off the Rhode Island coastline. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, two separate appeals against the approvals were also filed by the Southeast Lighthouse Foundation, based on . . . Complete story »


November 23, 2023 • Rhode IslandPrint storyE-mail story

Preservation Society files lawsuit to fight massive wind farms and preserve historic and pristine views from industrial-scale development

The Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island’s largest and nationally respected steward of historic preservation, has appealed federal agency decisions approving massive wind farms off the coast of Rhode Island. The appeals were filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on November 22, 2023 and detail how the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) failed to comply with the heightened levels of review required under the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Historic Preservation . . . Complete story »


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