Recently, Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg) visited Boston and New Bedford, Massachusetts, joined by Assemblymembers Dawn Addis (D-Morro Bay) and Rick Chavez Zbur (D-Hollywood), to attend an offshore wind conference, see
As New England states rub their hands in gleeful anticipation of an economic benefit from offshore wind power, New Hampshire risks being left on the sidelines.The problem isn’t our short coastline, however; it’s our government’s actions. Or.
The utility-scale projects the 800-MW, estimated $3-billion Vineyard Wind project off Massachusetts and the 132-MW, estimated $637-million South Fork project off New York could begin to generate power this year, their developers say.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. New Bedford was once the city that lit the world, exporting vast quantities of whale oil for lamps in the early 1800s. Workers packed the docks, unloading casks of oil that had been extracted at sea from whale carcasses and brought in by a fleet of hundreds of whaling ships.