“Most people come here for the ocean. It’s not going to be what it was. It’s going to hurt business,” George Benedict, owner of the White Whale Motel in the town of Barnegat Light, said at a recent rally organised by Save Long Beach …

Before constructing offshore wind farms, developers employ geophysical surveys to map the seafloor and geological layers beneath it using sound waves. Concerned communities are becoming more suspicious that geophysical surveys play a role …

Who cares about whales? Whales might be dying because of sonar surveying, but Greenpeace simply ignores the science that doesn’t suit it. So far last year, 71 whales have washed up dead on the shores of New England and neighbouring …

...data suggests strongly that the quality of the domestic private water wells in that part of Chatham-Kent has been interfered with – made worse by the construction of that industrial wind complex,” he says. “We know there’s more black …

The myth that New York can replace fossil fuel power plants with cheap renewable energy has begun to crumble under renewable developers’ demands for higher prices to offset inflation and supply chain challenges. ...Ørsted and Eversource …

Ms. Linowes says a recent sound study conducted by Rand Acoustics of the high decibel noise levels at wind survey sites finds that sonar mapping produces much louder sounds than offshore wind developers are reporting to government …

H.L. Mencken once said, “There is always an easy solution to every problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.” He could have been speaking about New Jersey’s current quest to achieve the very worthwhile objective of 100% clean energy by 2035. …

In May, Robert Rand, a leading echo sound expert, detected high-decibel sonar approximately 43 nautical miles east of Barnegat Light that did not match the equipment cited in the incidental take permit, prompting a comprehensive look at …

The abject poverty of the region means that local governments give wind farms the green light with few conditions, they assert. ...As well as paying local farmers interviewed by The Wall Street Journal as much as $500 a month to erect …

Offshore wind farms should be one of the best solutions to the climate crisis but are turning out to be a lousy business. Getting the struggling industry back on its feet will require a new approach from companies and politicians alike.

“Absent intervention, these near-term projects are increasingly at risk of failing,” the governors said in the letter dated Wednesday. “Without federal action, offshore wind deployment in the US is at serious risk of stalling because …

Fed up with state coastal regulators’ perceived “deference” to offshore wind developers, all nine members of an advisory panel of Rhode Island fishing industry representatives have quit. In a letter sent Thursday, Aug. 31, to Rhode Island …

Opponents hope that if they can persuade enough land owners not to sign leases, there will not be enough locations for a viable project. “They don’t think people are educated. They expect everyone just to sign a contract because farming …

After paying $510mn for a string of projects off the north-east coast in 2018, Martin Neubert, then head of Ørsted’s offshore wind business, hailed the exciting “journey” the company was on having first entered the US market in 2015. Now Ø…

Norway's Equinor (EQNR.OL) and its partner BP (BP.L) are seeking a 54% increase for the price of power produced at three planned offshore U.S. wind farms, according to a filing made by a New York state regulatory authority. ...In a …

Construction on the Hermanville wind farm totalled $60 million in 2014, and the P.E.I. Energy Corporation estimates the costs to repair the non-functional wind turbines will be $10 million by the end of maintenance in September 2024. While…

The world's largest offshore wind farm developer is preparing to walk away from US projects unless the Biden administration guarantees more support, Bloomberg reported. "We are still upholding a real option to walk away," Orsted CEO Mads …

A paper published in the International Journal of Industrial Organisation concluded that companies were “exaggerating” claims about the amount of energy they expected to produce at times when the transmission network risked being …