July 8, 2024 — More controversy is surrounding offshore wind projects along the Jersey shore after the feds approved a plan earlier this week and activists say it can’t happen.
Change is blowing in the wind down the shore and not everyone is happy about it.
This week the Biden administration gave the green light to what would be the first wind energy farm off the coast of the New Jersey.
The company, Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, wants to build up to 200 offshore turbines on more than 400 square miles about eight and a half miles off the coast of Atlantic City. The turbines would be visible from Long Beach Island south to Ocean City. The company says, when completed in the next decade, the project would be able to power more than a million New Jersey homes and businesses by wind alone. But not everyone is onboard.
“Everybody in town is against the windmills. I have not met anyone yet who is for the windmills,” says Nancy McGinnis of Ocean City.
McGinnis is fuming over the decision by the U.S. Department of Interior to approve the proposed wind farm.