August 13, 2024 — The Ocean City Town Council has announced legal counsel has already been consulted over a possible federal lawsuit if offshore wind plans proceed.
What it would take for Ocean City to ‘file suit against the BOEM’
During the most recent normal legislative meeting, Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan noted he was not surprised members of the municipal government did not have all the details of the proposed offshore wind development by US Wind. He cited the planned 114 turbines would be “between 10.7 to 10.9 miles off our coast. At a minimum they will be 938 feet tall, and that’s three and half times taller than any building in Ocean City. If built on land, they would be the tallest structures in Maryland.”
The federal government leased the land on which these turbines are slated to be built according to the company’s federal permit application.
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