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The Town Council is Oak Island’s governing body, consisting of 5 Council Members and the Mayor. The Town Council sets Town policy, enacts ordinances, and adopts the annual budget. Regular Meetings for the Council are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:00 PM, in the Council Chambers, located on the second floor… Read More
Oak Island Town Council accepted – but took no action on – a 25-page report on shoreline management from the ad hoc Beach Renourishment Committee. The committee, in the majority, echoed most of the town’s existing plans for a long-term engineered beach that would initially cost roughly $40-million. Two of the seven committee members offered… Read More
OCEAN CITY — The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) announced the dates for two virtual public hearings for proposed second phases of two offshore wind energy projects. In 2017, the PSC approved two offshore wind energy farm projects off the coast of Ocean City including Ørsted’s Skipjack I project and US Wind’s Marwin project. Technically,… Read More
Construction of the Vineyard Wind project, America’s first full-scale offshore wind farm, is set to begin now that its backers have secured $2.3 billion in financing from nine international and U.S. banks. Vineyard Wind said with the new funding, the company will start its major commercial-scale offshore wind farm, despite the recent permitting lawsuit filed at… Read More
With nearly $80,000 worth of state grant funding, the Sandwich Department of Natural Resources will begin climate resiliency projects in Sandwich Village as early as the end of September, director David J. DeConto said. The town’s main project includes looking at the inner Mill Creek area and stabilizing problem flooding areas from the fire station… Read More
Indian River and five other coastal Sussex County waterways are on DNREC schedule Several dredging projects are scheduled in eastern Sussex County over the next one to three years. They include Indian River in the Millsboro area and Indian River marina, late 2022 into 2023; Holt’s Landing State Park ramp, late 2022; Assawoman and loop… Read More
An area that includes Bluff Point, Haley Farm State Park and the University of Connecticut’s campus at Avery Point in Groton and spots along the lower Connecticut River, as well as surrounding waters, soon could become Connecticut’s first National Estuarine Research Reserve. The reserve would be a new addition to a nationwide network of estuarine research reserves that provide opportunities for… Read More
The 670,000 solar panel project is now complete, increasing Ørsted’s operational solar PV capacity to 647 MW and diversifying the company’s footprint through a new partnership with the Tennessee Valley Authority. Ørsted continues to expand its solar footprint across the US and has completed the 227 MWAC Muscle Shoals solar PV project in Colbert County, Alabama. Located… Read More
Juneau, Alaska (KINY) – The Juneau assembly voted in favor of repealing a legally unenforceable ordinance regarding coastal protection regulations, which heavily relied on a repealed state law called the Alaska Costal Management Act. The Assembly heard numerous testimonies from the public asking them to retain the dysfunctional code, until the protections it included could… Read More
Chronic shoaling in Hatteras Inlet’s South Ferry Channel persists despite numerous dredging projects over the last five years, but now the Dare County Waterways Commission is facing a tough decision on how to proceed in the face of stubbornly intractable issues. Before the dredge Merritt’s scheduled return on Oct. 1, the panel has to decide… Read More
Five days after Hurricane Ida made landfall, leaving behind catastrophic flooding and significant damage in its path, U.S. Geological Survey scientists started quickly working a multi-week effort to capture high-water mark elevations in some of the most impacted areas. Teams from USGS water science centers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland are working together to preserve, document, and survey elevations of more than 200 combined high-water marks left from flooding caused by Ida’s heavy rains. “We are working with federal and state partners, along with… Read More
Hurricane Ida is expected to become one of the costliest tropical storm impacts ever to affect the mainland United States, according to insurance and reinsurance broker Aon. The industry has been absorbing the reality of hurricane Ida over the last week or so, as industry loss estimates steadily rose and the impacts of the north… Read More
Responsible Offshore Development Alliance (RODA), a membership-based coalition of fishing industry associations and fishing companies, revealed that it has filed a Petition for Review in the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals regarding the Secretary of the Interior’s approval the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind energy project. The Vineyard Wind 1 project will be located approximately… Read More
Both because it wants to and because a federal court wants it done, the EPA will be working on a new Navigable Waters Protection Rule. Such work has gone on now for almost 50 years. The Clean Water Act of 1972 says adding pollutants or dredge or fill material into a “water of the United… Read More
As the extreme weather event and deadly flash-flooding in New York City underscored, we need to act with a sense of urgency to deal with our current climate reality and a significant expansion of offshore wind in New York and beyond should be a key ingredient in the recipe for success at mitigation and resilience… Read More