Portsmouth Rhode Island Public Offshore Wind Meeting 5/25/23

Portsmouth, Rhode Island will hold an offshore wind project public meeting on May 25, 2023, at 7 PM.
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Location: Portsmouth High School Auditorium, 120 Education Lane 
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The proposal is to install onshore cables up to 1200 megawatts from offshore wind turbines. 
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The cables are HVDC, High Voltage Direct Current.  
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The proposed route: Sakonnet River into Island Park, Boyd's Lane, Anthony Road, and Mount Hope Bay.
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Issues include effects on native fish stocks, marine life, businesses, residential setbacks, and contaminated sediment from the seabed.
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Whale deaths and Dolfin strandings have followed ocean wind construction since the Rhode Island offshore wind project in 2016.
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All along the east coast, many residential communities are in rancorous battles over placing high-voltage cables through their streets with construction taking up to three years. 
.Note# Public resistance to years of installations of onshore wind farm cables equivalent to the output of small nuclear plants (800 megawatts) can be high, especially when construction is planned near residential areas and businesses. Portsmouth has public golf courses, marinas, antique shops, many beach restaurants, and a fishing industry that may never recover. 
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Falmouth Massachusetts Town Meeting and Select Board recently voted to deny a step toward offshore wind.
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The offshore cable route is to Brayton Point, Massachusetts. Alternative routes exist besides Portsmouth, RI.
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Two studies by the Brattle Group for Anbaric ( an independent transmission developer) show that alternatives exist for a proactively "planned" offshore and onshore grid. 
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The current method of "unplanned" offshore wind cable construction does not take into consideration future goals.
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"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

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