East Hampton's Cate Rogers on South Fork Wind and Water Quality Issues
Our region faces numerous environmental challenges, from climate disruption, sea level rise and ocean acidification to poor water quality. We also need good paying jobs and a green recovery to meet some of those challenges. All these issues are on the table in the 2020 election, from the local to the state and federal levels. One example is the planned South Fork Wind project, first proposed in 2015, a wind farm off the coast of Long Island, 35 miles east of Montauk. It would help the state reach its goal of 70% renewable energy by 2030 and the goal of East Hampton Town to have 100% of its energy needs met by renewable sources. The project reached a major milestone when state agencies signed a Joint Proposal to allow the project to move forward, despite opposition from some homeowners at the site in Wainscott where the power cable from the wind farm would come ashore. But the fate of the project could still be decided by the outcome of the election. This month Francesca talke
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