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A group of residents have sued the Town of East Hampton, Long Island, to block developers of an offshore wind project from burying a high-powered transmission cable under Wainscott Beach.
Orsted and Eversource won approval from the town last month to bring the cable to shore. Power from the South Fork Wind Farm would be transferred from the beach, through town-owned right of ways, to an electric substation.
The Citizens for the Preservation of Wainscott called the approval a money grab for the town. The developers are expected to give East Hampton $29 million over the next 25 years in exchange for the easements.
BY MICHAEL WRIGHT Both of East Hampton’s elected government bodies this week gave their stamps of approval to the landing of the South Fork Wind Farm power supply cable at Beach Lane in Wainscott and the $29 million the agreements will bring the to
As East Hampton prepares the final agreements to allow the South Fork Wind Farm cable to come ashore in Wainscott, the future of offshore wind off Long Island’s coast has become much more crowded.
Two massive offshore wind farms with more than 90 turbines each, to be built by the firm Equinor, received approval from New York State in early January, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in his State of the State Address Jan. 13. They include the Empire Wind 2 project 20 miles offshore from Jones Beach, and Beacon Wind 1, which will be 60 miles east-southeast of Montauk. The transmission cable for the Beacon Wind 1 project would travel about 200 miles under the Long Island Sound to a grid tie-in in Astoria, Queens.
The developers of an offshore wind farm in eastern Long Island are allowed to move forward with the burying of high-powered transmission cables in East
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