The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management held a public hearing Friday night at which many Portsmouth residents expressed concerns over the burial of the cable dredging up pollution from the bottom of the river, while also harming marine life. “This is going to devastate the fisheries,” said Carol Mello, a Portsmouth resident. “We are devastated, we really are. We are a group of people who really cares about our environment and we are all for renewable energy, but not this way.”
Some Portsmouth residents are expressing their concerns over an electrical cable that would connect off-shore wind turbines to the power grid in Brayton Point.
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PORTSMOUTH A geotechnical survey for SouthCoast Wind is scheduled to begin here on Monday, Oct. 30. Geotechnical operations are planned for 13 test boring locations along Boyds Lane …
An offshore wind developer has assured Aquidneck Island residents they would experience minimal disruptions from a proposal to bury an export cable along Boyds Lane into Mount Hope Bay.