Tag: wind energy
Middletown Joins Others in Asking for Halt to Offshore Wind Projects
With neighboring Keansburg and Sandy Hook beaches reporting marine animal deaths recently, the governing body of Middletown Township has now joined several elected officials and activists across the state to ask for an immediate pause on federally authorized wind energy projects off the Jersey Shore.
Offshore Wind Lease Auction Draws Praise and Concern
On Feb. 23, the U.S. Interior Department Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold an online auction for six ocean areas totaling more than 480,000 acres off New York and New Jersey.
A Wind Energy Area Off The Jersey Shore Coast?
By Joseph Sapia
A comment period on the sale of leasing rights for a 127-square-mile wedge of the Atlantic Ocean east of Sandy Hook for windmill-generated...