While Ocean City fights to stop Ocean Wind 1 from using its beaches and streets for transmission lines, Cape May County has hired a pair of attorneys to battle wind farms planned off the coast. Simultaneously, three citizens groups have filed suit in Superior Court against the New Jersey Department of Environmental Projection and the company behind the first of multiple wind projects proposed off New Jersey. Ocean Wind 1, a project by by Danish company Ørsted, could get federal approval as early as this summer for a wind farm 15 miles off the coast of Atlantic and Cape May counties that would feature as many as 98 massive wind turbines capable of generating 1,100 megawatts of power.
Ocean City Councilman Tom Rotondi did not concede Tuesday when just 48 votes separated him from his opponent Pete Madden for the third at-large seat in the municipal election.
Rotondi said he would await the final tallies and the official vote totals once all of the mail-in ballots and provisional ballots were received and counted.
By MADDY VITALE
Ocean City Councilman Tom Rotondi expressed his concerns about the recent legalization of recreational marijuana at his Second Ward Zoom meeting Saturday.
The Second Ward encompasses the south side of Fourth Street to the north side of 12th Street.
On Monday, Governor Gov. Phil Murphy signed three bills to legalize recreational marijuana for adults 21 and older and to decriminalize it for people under 21.
The married father of three and former police officer said he was “extremely frustrated over the law.”
“I think from the city and countywide perspective, the law is bad. Adults will do what they are going to do and the people of New Jersey spoke and it passed,” Rotondi said. “It is here to stay but if kids are caught with marijuana parents should be notified.” A direct rebuke of the bill(A5342) Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law on Monday.