A Just Transition? On Brooklyn’s Waterfront, Oil Companies and Community Activists Join Together to Create an Offshore Wind Project—and Jobs
Residents of Sunset Park, a largely immigrant, working-class community, hope the project will bring high-paying jobs to an economically-stressed neighborhood.
May 9, 2021
Aroldo Garcia discusses a major offshore wind development coming to Brooklyn with Summer Sandoval, a campaigner with the environmental justice group UPROSE. The project could bring more than 1,000 jobs to a site in Brooklyn's Sunset Park. Credit: Nicholas Kusnetz
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When Aroldo Garcia learned that the operations base for a major offshore wind project was coming to his Brooklyn neighborhood, he thought about the jobs it could provide for his family members and friends who worked as handymen and contractors, and for others who didn’t have work at all.