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The following was sent to The Block Island Times by the Southeast Lighthouse Foundation and Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC:
The Southeast Lighthouse Foundation (SELF), which owns and manages Block Island’s most iconic historic structure and New England’s highest lighthouse, appealed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)’s permitting decisions for two of the massive offshore wind farms planned by Danish owned energy behemoth Ørsted. The projects are South Fork Wind and Revolution Wind. The press release accompanying the lawsuit is provided below. The petition filed with the court can be downloaded from the document links on this page.
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“As an island community, we can do great things,” said First Warden Keith Stover at the onset of the ceremony to celebrate “the lighting” of the new fiber optic broadband
"We want to replicate this, even bigger, all up and down the Atlantic seaboard," said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm during a Friday tour.