![]() ![]() The project is currently moving through the permitting process by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), NOAA Fisheries, and other regulators. ![]() Revolution Wind proposes to build up to 100 wind turbines on the outer continental shelf about 18 miles southeast of Point Judith. Thompson called offshore wind power “a crapshoot, but the majority of what the turbines do is destructive.” He added, “There is no way will supply enough electricity to get us to shut down other sources” - a claim that is not being made. “We tell people these wind farms will kill whales and harm codfish stocks” - assertions not supported by marine scientists - “and people are willing to give all that up because they are panicking about the state of the planet” because of the climate crisis. Thompson said his group is concerned about climate change, but its members fear offshore wind facilities may threaten biodiversity and cause other serious and unforeseen problems. A few readers have counter-attacked with angry letters, accusing Green Oceans of both factual errors and a communication method that blasts out a tsunami of data points and arguments, mixing fact and innuendo, and overwhelming anyone arguing against its claims. ![]() ![]() Since January, Green Oceans has had at least four opinion pieces and one letter to the editor published in EastBayRI, a group of community newspapers based in Bristol. The group, called Green Oceans and organized last December as a nonprofit, believes offshore wind projects are the “industrialization of the ocean” and “100% destructive,” said one member, Bill Thompson, who owns a house in Tiverton. A handful of property owners in the East Bay has been publicizing a torrent of data arguing against offshore wind projects, causing alarm and anger from oceanographers, environmental regulators, and climate activists who say the group’s arguments are wrong, misleading, and tainted with negative innuendo, false linkages, and guilt by association. ![]()
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