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Offshore wind to be featured at the WorkBoat Show

Kirk Moore

Biden administration pushes out new offshore wind initiatives

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The Ocean Wind project planned off Atlantic City, N.J., a longtime surf clam port, includes a study of the fishery's future by university scientists with industry design and support. Ørsted graphic.

New Jersey wind study considers fishing, coastal vistas

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The trawler Virginia Marise from Point Judith, R.I., near the Block Island Wind Farm. Deepwater Wind photo.

Fishermen say offshore wind surveys rip up gear: ‘There has to be accountability’

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In May 2019, Shell started production at Appomattox, a deepwater oil and gas development that is Shell’s largest floating platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell photo

Gulf of Mexico lease sale attracts $191 million in high bids

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BOEM director: Agency will work with fishermen

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BOEM is considering calls to change plans for New York Bight wind energy areas, including vessel transit lanes (blue corridors) and a buffer zone for the Hudson Canyon scallop access area (blue area). BOEM graphic.

BOEM must change New York Bight wind plans, fishermen say

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The Fisheries Survival Fund representing scallop fishermen urged BOEM to change its plans to offer offshore wind leases near important scallop habitat. Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal image.

BOEM to offer New York Bight wind leases; scallop fishermen urge delay

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Vineyard Wind developers plan to use the 14-megawatt GE Haliade X turbine for their project 15 miles south of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. GE image.

Biden administration clears way for Vineyard Wind

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The Ocean Wind turbine array off Atlantic City would send power ashore through two export cables, to the now-closed BL England coal generation plant in Cape May County and north to the former Oyster Creek nuclear generating station in Ocean County. Ørsted

Ocean Wind project worries New Jersey beach resorts, fishing industry

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BOEM withdrew plans for offshore wind energy areas Fairways North and Fairways South (at top) off the South Shore of Long Island. BOEM image.

BOEM pulls two areas from New York Bight wind planning

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