Opponents of wind farms off the coast of the Jersey Shore including Long Beach Island had their energy recharged this past week because of an incident in Nantucket, Mass.
Residents of that quaint historic island, a popular tourist destination some 30 miles south of Cape Cod, started reporting that debris from a broken Vineyard Wind turbine blade was washing up on its south shore beaches on the morning of Tuesday, July 16.
All of Nantucket’s southern beaches were closed to swimming just after 11 a.m.
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