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22.6.10

Offshore project will have "negligible impact upon birds and fish"

The Department of Environmental Protection released a draft report Friday on the preliminary findings of a two-year research project examining the potential ecological impact offshore wind energy projects would have in the New jersey area.
“This is a groundbreaking study,” said Dr. Gary Buchanan, manager of the DEP’s Office of Science, who presented the report at DEP headquarters Friday morning. “New Jersey is the first state to take such a detailed scientific look at its offshore ecological resources in the context of wind energy.”
According to the draft report, wind energy turbines, which could be located three to 20 miles off the New Jersey coast, would have negligible impacts upon bird, fish and marine mammal life

Source : NJbiz