To the Editor:
Just to add to Bob Stern’s well-researched piece (“Wind Project Off LBI Shore: There Is a Better Alternative,” 12/22), it is notable that the current largest, four-part, offshore wind project, Hornsea 1-4, is located 55 miles off the Yorkshire coast. That is well past the horizon, ergo well out of sight of the shore. There is no rationale for putting industrial towers within sight of land other than reducing the cost of installation, i.e. increasing profits.
This isn’t a NIMBY reaction. This is a reasoned conclusion that the folks who live and vacation on the New Jersey Shore…
January 19, 2022
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