Carcieri signs deal for ocean wind farm
Published: January 8, 2009
Updated: January 8, 2009
PROVIDENCE—A developer selected to build a massive wind farm in waters south of Rhode Island hopes to finish building some of the wind turbines within three years.
Gov. Don Carcieri signed an agreement last week with New Jersey-based Deepwater Wind to build a massive ocean wind farm capable of providing 15 percent of the state’s electricity needs.
No offshore wind farms have been built in the country, and a proposal off Cape Cod has drawn fierce opposition.
The developer must obtain multiple government permits before construction can begin.
Under the terms of the deal, New Jersey-based Deepwater Wind will construct some of the turbines by 2012. Work on the bulk of the project will begin three years after securing the necessary
federal approval.
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Gee NEHC, let’s not have any forward thinking here, that is what got us in the mess in the first place. Our future energy resources are very important to the state and it’s taxpayers. I fully support it. We need to move into future, instead of how things have been run in this absolutely archaic state. God, how old are you? But, let’s just keep giving out unsustainable pensions and health care to the state workers until there is nothing and no one left. Also, if you really look at the medicaid reform, he is not ripping off the elderly. Read the entire reform. My mom is 78 years old and supports it.
The “gov” was just on TV telling us how much was NOTE comming to city & towns, and how retires will not get COLA’S yet there’s money for WIND ,,??? Somebody is full of wind. Cut the state payroll in 1/2 and you save all you need, and if the state had funded the pensions as they were obliged to for the past 30+ yrs we wouldn;t be this bad off. Now he wants medicade reform, why not rip off the elderly, who’s next. I know charge $1.00 per 3 breath of fresh air per person, but then again we don’t have FRESH AIR…
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