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The following article is provided by the Caesar Rodney Institute, a Delaware-based nonprofit 501(c)(3) public policy research organization.

It comes from a Policy Center Director who works to help Delawareans by providing fact-based analysis in four key areas:

education, energy and environmental policy, the economy and government spending, and health policy.

Offshore Wind Update: Legal Challenges Continue, Coastal Communities Stay Engaged

Stop Offshore Wind

Opposition to offshore wind in the Mid-Atlantic is not slowing down. If anything, it is becoming more focused, more legally sophisticated and more publicly engaged. Headlines may suggest “wins” or “losses,” but the reality is that the fight is ongoing. U.S. Wind’s federal Construction and Operations Plan approval remains in effect, and legal challenges continue on multiple fronts.



Public engagement has not waned. On Jan. 12, an offshore wind forum in Ocean City, Maryland, drew a standing-room-only crowd at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center. Hosted by the Stop Offshore Wind Coalition with the town of Ocean City and Worcester County government, the forum brought together local leaders, fishermen, policy experts, environmental professionals and national security specialists to discuss where the project stands and what is at stake for coastal communities in Maryland and Delaware.


In Delaware, Fenwick Island and Sussex County have filed lawsuits challenging SB 159. At the federal level, the Caesar Rodney Institute (CRI) remains a named plaintiff in litigation seeking to vacate the project’s approval. In Delaware, CRI has also filed suit challenging state permitting actions related to the project. 



 
 
 

2 Comments

dscottwilson
21 minutes ago

CRI and the various organizations that shed light on offshore wind should add to the WARNINGS LIST how the offshore wind lobby and Delaware legislatures know full well they will pass a law REQUIRING rate payers to pay a MONTHLY SUBSIDY to prop up the true costs of offshore wind AND pay for the damage and replacement of the wind turbines JUST LIKE Gov Markell (2008 to 2016) did to Delaware energy ratepayers to subsidize a California fuel cell company (Bloom Energy) for 20 years who found a state governor not concerned for citizen rate and tax costs in Jack Markell (D). I do not ever see the potential of rate payer wind turbine subsidies in communications.

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Carolyn
Carolyn
an hour ago

Thanks for the work you do....the sleeping majority is awakening.

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