October 11, 2024 — The Caesar Rodney Institute’s Center for Energy & Environment, along with two regional watermen concerned about offshore wind farms’ potential impacts on the local fisheries, have filed a lawsuit against DNREC, citing two technical points they say are related to protecting the inland bays and potentially overriding county zoning ordinances.
The Brady Legal Group and founding partner Jane Brady have bought the legal action against the state agency for allegedly not following its own regulations in permitting offshore wind.
Brady — who was Delaware’s attorney general from 1995 to 2005, elected as a Republican — filed the complaint, which lists the Caesar Rodney Institute, Paul “Wes” Townsend and George Merrick as the complainants. The suit is challenging DNREC’s authority to grant permits to U.S. Wind for construction at 3R’s beach and for the use of wetlands and subaqueous lands by running cable beneath the Delaware Inland Bays to a power substation.