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A couple of weeks ago President Biden announced a massive effort to develop offshore wind energy projects, seeing them as the key to a “clean energy revolution.”
It is a big change from the Trump administration, which was lukewarm, at best, about supporting renewable energy development and approving offshore wind-power leases. The Biden administration projects this undertaking will employ more than 44,000 workers in offshore wind by 2030 and nearly 33,000 additional jobs in communities supported by offshore wind activity.
I’m excited that hundreds of those jobs stand to be created here in southeastern Connecticut and that the port of New London could be a major player. It is ideally situated. Between the port and the proposed wind fields there are no bridges to impede the shipping of the towering wind-turbine stanchions to their destinations.
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Published April 07. 2021 3:56PM
Kevin Blacker
Op-eds, insults, pink paint, and felony charges flying as two chairmen, an executive Director and office manager at the Port Authority all lost their jobs. Meanwhile, the Attorney General’s investigation of the Connecticut Port Authority is dragging through its second year.
The press outside of Southeastern Connecticut seems largely unaware of the political roadhouse brawl going on at State Pier over plans to fill 7 ½ acres of the deepest commercially available water in the state. The recent op-ed by Eversource’s Joe Nolan and Orsted’s David Hardy paints a deceptively rosy picture.
Here are a few important facts they left out:
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