The New London site is a whirlwind of activity these days, with dozens of construction workers operating cranes, excavators and dump trucks with the single
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New London The owner of a road salt business displaced by the planned reconstruction of State Pier for the offshore wind industry continues his attempt to block or delay a state environmental permit needed to complete work at the pier.
DRVN Enterprises owner and President Steven Farrelly has filed what is known as a notice of exception, his recourse for a previously denied objection to the Connecticut Port Authority’s plans for the pier. He argues he should be allowed to stay at the pier, where he has operated his business since 2014. Told to leave but given time to sell the remainder of his salt pile as part of an agreement with the port authority, DRVN left the site at the end of February.
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Connecticut Deputy Senate Minority Leader Paul Formica has called for the resignations of every board member of the Connecticut Port Authority at their April monthly meeting.
Formica’s demand came as a result of hearing about rising costs for the redevelopment of New London’s State Pier from an original figure of $93 million to a current figure of just over $235 million for future offshore wind projects.
“Should they resign if they’re not interested in doing it, maybe so,” he said. “But perhaps I’d be willing to sit down with any one of them and offer any assistance I can offer to try to move this project forward in a way that’s beneficial to the project, the people’s money, the state of Connecticut, but ultimately this is the administration s project and they need to step up and step in. ”