Wrecking the Sea Bed with Offshore Wind (Part 3)

cape-wind-power-farm-b1This is the third in a series of posts about the damage done to the sea floor by offshore “Wind Parks”. The concept appears to be that the sea bed is variously excavated, levelled and generally dug over and the 7600 Tonnes of spoil from these operations is shipped to the surface. The gravity base structure is then built on top of part of the excavated area. The final coup-de-grace to the area is then executed by rapidly dumping the spoil in the vicinity of the turbine base. Read [email protected]   16:07

Part’s 1 and 2 here

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