June 16, 2021 — New Jersey is moving forward with plans to build an enormous wind farm 20 miles off the coast, but not everybody is thrilled.
Proponents, including Gov. Phil Murphy, insist the Ocean Wind project, which calls for constructing about a hundred giant wind turbines out in the ocean over the next five years, and hundreds more in the future, will boost the state economy, create thousands of new jobs and provide enough green energy to run hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses.
Tricia Conte, the founder of Save Our Shoreline, is dead set against the wind farm.
“I was initially concerned about the view,” she said. “And then the more research I did I realized there were greater issues than the view.”
She said, “In other areas where there has been green energy installed, California, Germany and Denmark, there was significant increases in the cost of electricity.”