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Green Oceans Submission, CRMC, Evaluation, NOAA, Environmental Laws Lisa Quattrocki Knight Green Oceans Submission, CRMC, Evaluation, NOAA, Environmental Laws Lisa Quattrocki Knight

The Green Oceans Board Submits Comments to NOAA evaluating the RI CRMC’s Performance

“The CRMC has utterly failed as Rhode Island’s bulwark against the harms associated with ocean development. From a procedural and substantive perspective, the CRMC has violated the SAMP in conducting its federal consistency reviews of private offshore wind development. If these errors remain uncorrected, the harm to Rhode Island and the greater public will be devastating and possibly permanent.”

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NOAA’s Biological Opinion for the Revolution Wind Project

“The low reproductive rate of right whales is likely the result of several factors including nutrition (Fortune et al. 2013, Moore et al. 2021). Evidence also indicates that North Atlantic right whales are growing to shorter adult lengths than in earlier decades (Stewart et al. 2021) and are in poor body condition compared to southern right whales (Christiansen et al. 2020).”

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Green Oceans Submits Comments to NOAA opposing the Incidental Take Requests for the Revolution Wind Project

Green Oceans submits comments to NOAA opposing the number of Incidental Take Requests to harm and harass marine mammals by the developers of the Revolution Wind project.

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