Served with an eviction notice following two months of missed rent payments and a Sixth District Court ruling, the closure of 28 Market St. in Warren leaves multiple groups picking up the pieces and wondering what went wrong with such a promising vision.
Rhode Island Fisherman’s Advisory Board (FAB) resigned en masse in response to the Rhode Island CRMC giving deference to offshore wind developers regardless of the requirements of the Ocean SAMP, the cost to the environment, or the impacts to Rhode Island’s fishing industry. The full letter can be viewed below and downloaded from the document links on this page.
A plan backed by the Biden administration to OK a string of wind farms off Rhode Island has prompted every member of a fishing regulatory board in the state to resign.
All nine members of the Rhode Island Fishermen’s Advisory Board resigned Sept. 1, saying the state Coastal Resource Management Council is so committed to developing offshore wind power that it has rejected the board’s concerns about fishery and environmental impacts.