Maryland’s Department of the Environment, Air and Radiation Administration will host a public information meeting to discuss air quality permit applications from US Wind, Inc.
[Commissioner Joe] Mitrecic said that now increased government spending is a concern on top of concerns for Ocean City’s fishing industry and other ocean-related activities. Commissioner Ted Elder said the wind farms would be a detriment to the state environmentally, financially and aesthetically, as the wind turbines will be visible from the shore of Ocean City and Assateague Island. “In the long run I think this is going to end up costing the people in the county and the state of Maryland a tremendous amount of money,” Mitrecic said.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management recently held a community open house on a proposed offshore wind project at Indian River High School in Dagsboro.