ecoRI: Block Island Wind Farm Now Fully Financed, Controversial Pipeline Project Receives Key Approval

[Alex Brown]

Highly recommended:  ecoRI (http://www.ecori.org) views New England's environmental issues from the Ocean State --

• Block Island Wind Farm Now Fully Financed
  
• http://www.ecori.org/renewable-energy/2015/3/3/block-island-wind-farm-now-fully-financed
• Controversial Pipeline Project Receives Key Approval
  
• http://www.ecori.org/renewable-energy/2015/3/4/controversial-pipeline-expansion-project-gets-key-approval

Also, stories not seen much elsewhere --

• http://www.ecori.org/marine-news/
• Can Blue Mussels Tell Health of Coastal Environments?
  
• http://www.ecori.org/narragansett-bay/2015/2/10/can-blue-mussels-tell-health-of-coastal-environment
• Bay State Making Plans for Ocean Development
  
• http://www.ecori.org/narragansett-bay/2014/10/23/bay-state-making-plans-for-ocean-development.html
• "The biggest change since 2009 identified in the 2014 draft plan was the accelerated approach to offshore-wind-energy-area (WEA) development by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the federal agency formerly known as the Mineral Management Services prior to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.  In five short years, BOEM leased the R.I.-Mass. WEA to Deepwater Wind, and is poised to auction the Mass. WEA by the end of the year. Both WEAs will require offshore wind energy transmission lines to shore. The R.I.-Mass. WEA has a single leaseholder, but may require more than one landline. The nearby Mass. WEA may have up to four different leaseholders, but as of yet they aren’t required to coordinate efforts to bring the energy to shore. ..."
• "Low public turnout:  Fewer than a dozen people attended the Oct. 22 public hearing, and several of those were students from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth or part of the advisory groups that helped draft the plan."
  

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