Coast Guard challenged on offshore wind traffic study

The Bureau of Offshore Energy Management's supplemental environmental impact statement for the Vineyard Wind project considers a proposal for four nautical-mile-wide vessel transit lanes. BOEM image.

A Coast Guard study that recommends against designated vessel transit lanes through New England offshore wind turbine arrays “contains serious foundational and analytical errors that merit correction,” commercial fishing advocates say in a formal objection to the findings.

The Coast Guard’s Massachusetts and Rhode Island Port Access Route Study endorsed wind power developers’ proposal for a uniform grid layout of 1 nautical mile between turbine towers on their neighboring federal leases off...

https://www.workboat.com/news/offshore/coast-guard-challenged-on-offshore-wind-traffic-study/

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