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| CRMC Wants Ocean Zoning For Wind Farms |
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| Saturday, 01 March 2008 | |
 With a few different proposals floating around for building large-scale wind farms in our state's offshore waters, the Coastal Resources Management Council has said it wants to put the whole process on hold for about a year so it can develop an "ocean zoning" map.
Governor Carcieri, who wants to move forward with alternative energy projects, has objected, but CRMC says it will actually speed things up overall, if the zoning is done up front.
“By doing a sensible siting analysis, you can take off the map, for instance, the marine transportation routes, you can take off the map the prime fishing grounds, you can take off the map the prime habitat areas, so that you give some assurances to those groups that you don’t have to fight this on a project-by-project basis all the time,” Grover Fugate, CRMC’s executive director, told the Providence Business News.
Click here for the complete PBN story... sometimes their links expire after a day or two, but some don't, so here's hoping! UPDATE March 5: Click here for today's story on this topic from the Projo. Both the Conservation Law Foundation and Environment Rhode Island are in favor of the CRMC plan, the projo says.
And here's another view on the topic.... maybe it doesn't make sense to site wind farms in Rhode Island at all. The energy grid is a regional thing, why not seek out the most productive sites in New England to invest in, instead? Here's an op-ed from the Boston Globe.
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