PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • July 29, 2023
State and federal authorities must rethink our renewable energy policy in light of a growing body of scientific research that indicates offshore wind farms pose a threat to marine life and ocean ecosystems. As a fourth-generation lobsterman, I’m proud that New England lobster stocks are robust and sustainable owing to our ethic of conservation and that of our forebears. But my optimism about our future is dimming because foreign green energy companies are on the verge of industrializing our ocean with thousands of wind turbines, sealing fisheries and harming lobster stocks. ~ Dustin Delano, Friendship, fourth-generation lobsterman and chief operating officer of the New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association