Feds Call for Block Island Wind Farm
Block Island Times: U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, on a visit to Quonset Point in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, this past week, announced that the federal government is seeking letters of interest from offshore wind developers for a major wind farm off the Rhode Island coast.
Surrounded by Rhode Island’s congressional delegation, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and U.S. Rep. David Cicilline as well as Governor Lincoln Chafee, Salazar held aloft a map of the waters off Rhode Island at the press conference Wednesday, August 17.
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