Silence from Shoreline Press on Undersea Electric Problems
The Connecticut Examiner
by William T. S. Butler
May 14, 2021
ALL THE EXCITING PRESS about the installation of windfarms focuses on the seemingly blithe turbine blades swirling innocently in the free breeze offering efficient, economical and carbon imprint free electricity to the east coast of the United States.
That is the mantra offered by Baker, Raimondo, Lamonte and Cuomo. And to make sure no one sings off key the public is reminded of the tens of thousands of jobs and commercial contracts that attend to this wonderful new age. Cementing that certainty is the new president Biden naming Raimondo to Commerce so that NOAA doesn’t get up on its high horse and start to discuss the real harm marine wind installations can and will cause marine ecology, to say nothing of wrecking a significant portion of the commercial fishing industry.
Raimondo was a two-term governor of the ocean state, Rhode Island, where her antipathy to commercial fishing is well known and established. This state is the leader in the 100 million dollars plus squid industry which is certain to be impacted—possibly materially transformed and not in a good way—by the installation of Vineyard Wind and six others 13 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard of 500 or more turbines.
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