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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).

https://www.offshorewind.biz/2023/05/31/technology-turning-any-port-into-floating-offshore-wind-hub-attracts-new-investor/

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.

https://apnews.com/article/youth-climate-lawsuit-trial-oregon-7ad2fa18f5276f12c64c0ce775aba2f6

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.

https://capitolweekly.net/thanks-to-tribal-partnerships-california-can-lead-the-world-on-offshore-wind/

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.

https://www.ecowatch.com/marine-animals-offshore-wind-farm-habitats.html

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.

https://electrek.co/2023/05/12/offshore-wind-bubble-curtain/

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.

https://calcoastnews.com/2023/05/san-luis-or-long-beach-port-as-support-for-offshore-windmills/

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.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-09/long-beach-releases-plan-for-largest-offshore-wind-turbine-facility-at-any-u-s-port

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8a_yIoE84w

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

https://www.nationalfisherman.com/northeast/vineyard-wind-engaging-fishermen-in-offshore-construction-work

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.

https://gcaptain.com/crowley-to-open-offshore-wind-office-in-northern-california/

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.

https://atnitribes.org/climatechange/energy/?bbeml=tp-pck9Q6QNPEiuBt3JmyTokQ.jsfcKGCDHT0y0fm7XOtil1A.rPbI7UU6oJE2TVFwqXtAbOw.lI5WKYZC_gE-34jwmxw-H8A

...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.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90856401/these-groups-fighting-offshore-wind-say-its-about-whales-but-theyre-funded-by-big-oil