Green Oceans submits comments to BOEM detailing the environmental concerns and potential legal violations associated with the Vineyard Wind Northeast project.

Green Oceans submits comments to BOEM describing environmental concerns about the Beacon Wind project.

Green Oceans submits comments to BOEM detailing the environmental concerns about developing the Gulf of Maine with offshore wind energy developments.

“Nonetheless, the presence and layout of large numbers of WTGs [wind turbines] could make it more difficult for SAR [search and rescue] aircraft to perform operations (of people or marine mammals), leading to less effective search patters or early abandonment of searches. This could result in otherwise avoidable loss of life due to maritime incidents.” page 3.17-8.

The offshore wind energy project, SouthCoast Wind, will build up to five offshore substations to cool down and convert the high-voltage AC cables to high-voltage DC cables. They use an open loop system that will draw up 8-10 million gallons of cold ocean water from deep in the ocean and discharge it back containing chlorinated bleach and warmed to almost 90 degrees.

The Revolution Wind Farm Environmental Impact Statement admits that the offshore wind energy projects in the Rhode Island and Massachusetts’ Wind Energy Lease Area will contain up to 34 million gallons of coolants, fuels, oils, and lubricants. This is three times more than the amount of oil spilled in the Exxon Valdez environmental disaster.

BOEM admits the negative impacts of climate change will continue, unchanged, despite the addition of offshore wind to the US grid.

BOEM admits they do not expect offshore wind projects will have a material effect on climate change, not just a single project, but even all of the planned projects, collectively.

On page 3.9-83 of the Revolution Wind Environmental Impact Statement, the government admits that the Revolution Wind project will have major long-term adverse impacts on fishing.