Rhode Island Says NO To Falmouth's SouthCoast Wind

Rhode Island Says NO To Falmouth's SouthCoast Wind
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Up until May of 2022, SouthCoast Wind formerly known as Mayflower Wind proposed onshore cable landings under Falmouth Heights Beach, Massachusetts. 
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On June 8, 2022, Falmouth residents voiced overwhelming opposition (around 87 percent) to plans by SouthCoast Wind to run electric cables from its offshore wind farm through Falmouth at a public hearing held by the select board at a local school auditorium. 
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A Falmouth Select Board member, who chaired the board until the spring reorganization, asked SouthCoast if it had considered consolidating landing sites. 
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In April 2023 Falmouth Town Meeting backed the Select Board's decision to deny SouthCoast Wind access to sample more locations for cable landings.
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The cable landing site in Falmouth has been moved to Brayton Point, Massachusetts as there is not enough grid capacity to get the power off Cape Cod.
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SouthCoast’s contracted projects, one for 800 megawatts and another for 400 megawatts, will now have to go through Island Park Beach in Portsmouth Rhode Island to get to Brayton Point. 
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Portsmouth, Rhode Island held a meeting on May 25, 2023, at the high school on the proposal by SouthCoast Wind to run cables through Portsmouth Island Park Beach.
Local Portsmouth citizens around 99 percent during the almost four-hour meeting opposed the offshore wind cables. 
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Speakers discussed buried cables up to 1200 megawatts at 345,000 volts through residential streets, loss of fishing habitat, residential and commercial property loss, and almost 800 pages of Freedom of Information Act documents between the Town of Portsmouth and SouthCoast Wind  
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The main issue is the environmental damage to the Sakonnet River a “pristine habitat” and that the dredging to lay transmission cables will create sediment disturbances that will harm the environment.
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"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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