Windmill State News Today

Fed up with state coastal regulators’ perceived “deference” to offshore wind developers, all nine members of an advisory panel of Rhode Island fishing industry representatives have quit. In a letter sent Thursday, Aug. 31, to Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) Executive Director Jeff Willis, the entire Rhode Island Fishermen’s Advisory Board (FAB) declared its members were resigning effective immediately. The decision comes a...

In a strongly worded letter calling the process “political theater,” the nine members of the Rhode Island Fishermen’s Advisory Board (FAB) resigned en masse on Friday, refusing to work any

A plan backed by the Biden administration to OK a string of wind farms off Rhode Island has prompted every member of a fishing regulatory board in the state to resign.

The panel's former members said they did not want their names connected to the CRMC approvals amounting to 'wholesale ocean destruction.'