Rhode Island’s fishermen are feeling betrayed over the continuing expansion of Deepwater Wind’s proposed 200-wind turbine offshore renewable energy project off the coast of Rhode Island. The recent announcement that Deepwater hopes to be able to sell the electricity the wind turbines generate to the Long Island Power Authority adds even more to the fishing industry’s concerns that prime fishing areas off the coast will be either made inaccessible or harmfully disrupted. There are questions about the electromagnetic fields created by transmission lines, as well as the fact that the sea floor areas that the lines would have to run through were major routes on lobsters’ annual inshore-offshore migration path.Learn more from Go Local Prov.
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