“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.”

“The SouthCoast Wind project and its expert cables plan violate the letter and spirit of the Ocean SAMP and the Red Book and should be denied or significantly revised after additional testing and monitoring on the impacts this project will have on the coastal environment, including fisheries, glacial moraine, and other species.”

This letter from the IRS verifies the 501©3 status for Green Oceans.

Green Oceans’ submission to BOEM details the environmental risks associated with the Sunrise Wind project.

Green Oceans has conducted an extensive literature reveiw detailed in this document. We present information, facts, and evidence from peer reviewed journal articles and the government’s own environmental impact statements to assess the impact of offshore wind farms on the environment, biodiversity, the marine ecosystem, the economy, human health, and climate change.

The recent surge in whale deaths along the Atlantic coast, coinciding with offshore wind surveys, raises concerns about a potential link. Yet, NOAA and wind companies are reluctant to investigate or acknowledge the possible impact of these activities. Despite the legal protections for marine mammals, offshore wind companies continue to request permits for actions that could harm thousands of marine species, while key agencies fail to release critical data, leaving the public in the dark about the full scope of the issue.

“Desperate times often require desperate measures, but large-scale, unproven, and invasive measures, often cause unforeseen harm. The ocean’s finite and irreplaceable resources can disappear. Wind can dissipate. Once destroyed, uniquely productive habitats and breeding grounds that sustain life on earth may not return.”