Two major offshore wind power projects are taking steps forward in New Jersey as the owners of one project agreed to bring the federal government in on their environmental monitoring plans at an earlier stage than has ever been done
, and federal regulators said plans for another project are not expected to kill or seriously injure marine life.
The agreement will bring the federal agency into the company's planning process at a much earlier stage than is currently done in the offshore wind industry, an arrangement that could become the new industry standard, according to company president Doug Perkins. Community has leased a 125,000 acre site 60 miles off Long Island, New York, and 37 miles off Little Egg Harbor in New Jersey.
On Wednesday, NOAA released a letter of authorization for Denmark-based Orsted's Ocean Wind I project in southern New Jersey. Opponents of offshore wind blame the deaths of 70 whales along the East Coast since December on offshore wind site preparation work. But three federal scientific agenciesthat such work is responsible for the deaths, about half of which have been attributed to vessel strikes.
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