The federal government on Friday completed a final environmental impact review of an offshore wind project slated to be built south of Martha’s Vineyard.
SouthCoast Wind, a 147-turbine project planned to be built around 26 nautical miles south of the Island, finished the major review, according to a statement from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).
The project includes five offshore substation platforms in a 127,388-acre lease area, and eight offshore cables will make landfall in either Falmouth or Brayton Point in Somerset.
The federal agency states the project is expected to generate 2.4 gigawatts of energy, which officials say would power more than 800,000 homes.
“Tribal nations, federal and state agencies, local communities, ocean users, and key stakeholders have been instrumental in informing BOEM’s detailed environmental review of the proposed SouthCoast Wind Project,” BOEM Director Elizabeth Klein said in the release. “Completing this environmental review represents another major milestone in the [Biden] administration’s commitment to achieving clean energy objectives that will benefit local communities.”
The news follows a federal auction of offshore wind lease areas in waters off Outer Cape Cod in late October, some of which were bought by Avangrid, which owns the Vineyard Wind project. Still, WCAI reported only half of the lease areas put up for sale were sold, and at “rock-bottom prices,” likely from the possibility of Donald Trump’s now realized return to the White House. Trump had vowed in May to halt offshore wind projects through an executive order during his presidential campaign.
The SouthCoast Wind project still needs final federal approval before construction can begin.
Trump can’t get in quick enough to save our island waters. 147 more turbines! Are you kidding?
Vineyard Wind was approved by the Trump Administration.
147 more turbines.
147 fewer oil drill rigs and production platforms.
Hundreds of flashing red lights spoiling the view.
South Coast Wind will be another failure as Vineyard Wind. As noted above “..major milestone in the [Biden] administration’s..” will never take flight. Wind power has many problems, intermittency, excessive cost to build and repair, faulty turbines, health risks, wildlife destruction. “In Germany, wind turbines are being torn down to make way for a coal mine —…”
Trump will eliminate Government subsidies for wind and solar on day one. Gas, oil and nuclear are the solution to encourage economic growth and lower prices/inflation.
The example you cite is a Lignite mine next to a power plant. The turbines were removed, the Lignite mined with a massive bucket wheel mining machine, and the turbines re-installed
Vineyard wind was approved by the Trump Administration.
Should we be mining more coal?
What harm does solar cause?
Is it all about money.
The climate be Damned?
Three mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima…
Nuclear plants, nuclear targets. force multiplier.
Wind and solar will not be targeted, dispersed., low value targets.
What made gas so high?
We are Lucky 🍀 to have more windmills in the neighborhood!
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Ms Kline’s comment is, at best, misleading. BOEM is required to have stakeholders at meetings that does not equate to having buy in or sign off from any of the groups she mentions. In fact none have “signed off” and opposition is growing among several of the groups she claims have been “instrumental in informing” these OSW projects.
This project is dead in the water. Drill baby drill.
Amen!
Where?
On the Island?
Drill baby drill.
That was John McCain’s swan song.
Trump hated him.
Trump hates lots of people.
He will be putting millions in jail.
He making a list and checking it twice
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