While all of us support offshore wind development, we also all want to make sure it is handled correctly, because huge swaths of the Outer Continental Shelf will be transformed by this pivot away from fossil fuels.
Working up to this World Ocean Day I have been pondering the size of the ocean. We can only imagine how our early forebears beheld it from the shores – peering into a vast, seemingly endless horizon. If you’ve ever…
Watching the current Administration’s strategy of looking straight ahead and not spitting out the windows, I found myself worried about sinking into the doldrums. When the folks handling the tiller of the Ship of State are headed in an approvable…
In the early 1990’s Physical Oceanographer Walter Munk was proposing the deployment of a technology called “Acoustic Tomography of Ocean Climate” (ATOC), whereby loud, low frequency sounds would be projected from the Pioneer Seamount across the Pacific Ocean, to Kauai, with the understanding…
Fortunately it seems like the folks in the current Administration have the interests of saving the planet in mind, not the interests of the oil industry.
The jobs component of offshore wind has become so persuasive that even Republicans saturated in oil are having to acknowledge the job opportunities. Big. Domestic. Job Opportunities.
On this Earth Day I feel we can collectively breathe a sigh of relief knowing that we’re setting off in a much better direction…
One of the downsides offshore wind will be the continuous low-level noise propagated into the marine environment.
