DELAWARE BUSINESS NOW • September 15, 2021
Beach communities from North Carolina to Maine and the Great Lakes joined together to form the American Coalition for Ocean Protection. The groups share information, resources, and strategies to be watchdogs against misguided federal and state offshore wind policy and have started a common legal defense fund. Loud turbine activities threaten the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. Turbine blades sweep an area the size of eight football fields with blade tips whirling at up to 180 mph, posing a hazard to birds in the Mid-Atlantic Flyway. Tourists may not return to beaches with visible Chrysler Building-sized turbines. Commercial fishermen will abandon prime fishing grounds covered with turbines. Solar and onshore wind power is much less expensive. ~ David T. Stevenson, Center for Energy & Environment at the Caesar Rodney Institute