Why is the Save Long Beach Island Organization So Concerned with the Project Here?

 

The Atlantic Shores wind turbine project, just 9 miles off a beautiful barrier Island beach will:

• Place several hundred huge industrial structures into the ocean with no plan or capability to remove and process them onshore-so we looking at visual blight, navigation hazards, the loss of hundreds of thousands of acres of marine resource, and turbine structural failures and shore contamination similar to the recent Nantucket event for generations.

• Destroy the shore experience through highly visible turbines, disturbing blade rotation, airborne noise, reduced breeze, and higher air temperature and humidity.

• Have a severe economic impact on tourism, jobs, rentals, property value, and tax revenues.

• Dramatically increase electric bills to every user in the State stressing households and businesses. 

• Kill marine mammals from the high levels of underwater noise from vessel surveys, pile driving of foundations, and long-term large turbine operation.

• Have a “negligible” effect on climate change coming from heat transfer already underway, this project only delays future sea level rise for a matter of days, doesn’t stop it.

 

This closest to shore in the world modern wind project in the migration path of a critically endangered whale is a classic example of the uninformed, reckless decisions and irreversible mistakes being made.

We need first a rational, realistic and clear energy and climate change policy from our elected officials, a demonstration project of construction, operation and removal from the industry, and then based on both, see how and where specific projects support that . 

 

Save LBI is fighting to stop this ill-conceived project and for that common sense approach in Court and elsewhere. Please help us take action and press your elected representative to do likewise.