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Encountering Blue State Wind Resistance – HotAir

There has been election-year movement in a blue-as-the-sky state, but not in the direction you’d think.

Just about this time a year ago, I told you about a massive off-shore wind development that is planned for the Maryland coast off Ocean City and would eventually feed 2GW of power to Delmarva households. 





Sonar surveying had already begun, and what seemed to be the resultant effects of that pounding on the bottom horrified local residents.

…Off the coasts of Maryland and Delaware, one of the few projects Ørsted still has going forward has starting its sonar surveying. The Skipjack 1 and Skipjack 2 wind farms are going to be plopped down square in the middle of something known as a “horseshoe crab reserve.”

Both Skipjack 1 & 2 are located in the center of the Carl Shuster Jr. Horseshoe Crab Reserve with US Wind off the coast of Ocean City, MD in the…

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