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Technology Turning Any Port into Floating Offshore Wind Hub Attracts New Investor
US-based supply chain solutions company serving the offshore wind sector, Crowley, has made an investment in Tugdock, developers of the world’s first road-transportable floating dry dock known as the Tugdock Submersible Platform (TSP).
Oregon youths’ climate lawsuit against US government can proceed to trial, judge rules
A federal judge ruled on Thursday that a lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists can proceed to trial years after they first filed the lawsuit in an attempt to hold the nation’s leadership accountable for its role in climate change.
Thanks to Tribal partnerships, California can lead the world on offshore wind
California is planning for offshore wind power at a scale unprecedented anywhere else on earth. Simultaneously, to ensure our proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary succeeds, I had to become an expert in wind energy.
Bottom-Dwelling Marine Animals Thriving on Offshore Wind Farm Foundations
In a discovery by researchers from Leiden University in the Netherlands, offshore wind turbines have become a haven for benthos — the community of marine organisms that live in, on or around the seafloor.
This US offshore wind farm is piloting a bubble curtain – what it is and why it’s cool
Vineyard Wind in Massachusetts is going to pilot a secondary bubble curtain – here’s what that is and why it’s great for the undersea environment.
San Luis or Long Beach port as support for offshore windmills?
While some local and state agencies are in favor of transforming Port San Luis in rural Avila Beach into an industrial port to support offshore wind energy farms, the federal government and the Port of Long Beach have other plans.
Long Beach releases plan for largest offshore wind turbine facility at any U.S. port
Within about a dozen years, floating wind turbines — as tall as the Eiffel Tower — will stand alongside the cranes and cargo containers at the Port of Long Beach as part of the largest offshore wind turbine facility in any U.S. port.
International Port of Coos Bay Study Conclusions and Discussion April 2023
The League of Women Voters, Coos County provides the video recording of a presentation on April 22, 2023 summarizing the results of their two year study results. This study was accompanied by a study white paper that will be provided to members for approval at their May 2023 annual meeting.
Vineyard Wind engaging fishermen in offshore construction work
Offshore wind power developers Vineyard Wind have spent about $5 million since 2019 to hire more than 30 southern New England fishing vessels to support various stages of the 800-megawatt turbine project, company officials said this week
Crowley to Open Offshore Wind Office in Northern California
Jacksonville, Florida-based Crowley is set to open a Wind Services office in Eureka, California as part of its efforts to develop an offshore wind terminal at the Port of Humboldt Bay in Northern California.
2023 Northwest Tribal Clean Energy Summit
The Summit will engage Tribal leaders, citizens, staff, youth and collaborators in conversation about navigating the cultural, economic, and social challenges of implementing clean energy projects.
These groups fighting offshore wind say it’s about whales—but they’re funded by Big Oil
...while they purport to be focused on saving the whales or preserving coastlines, they’re actually backed by oil-industry interests that are trying to tank renewable energy.
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Wind turbine farms in Britain have grown in the last 10 years - is the UK the Saudi Arabia of wind power?
President Biden pushes offshore wind
as green energy alternative
Wind energy costs, including both offshore and onshore wind, could decline 37–49 per cent by 2050
Under Biden, will offshore wind finally drive major energy gains in the U.S.?
Part 2 of PBS report above
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-regulators-are-approaching-the-push-for-offshore-wind
Time for Oregon to make best use of Federal Support
FACT SHEET: Biden Administration Jumpstarts Offshore Wind Energy Projects to Create Jobs
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/29/fact-sheet-biden-administration-jumpstarts-offshore-wind-energy-projects-to-create-jobs/
Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians Resolution
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo Announces Efforts to Advance Offshore Wind Power Generation
NOAA signs data-share agreement with offshore wind energy company
https://www.noaa.gov/media-release/noaa-signs-data-share-agreement-with-offshore-wind-energy-company
Chevron Invests in Offshore Wind Energy for First Time