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Collision Course: Offshore Wind Turbines Present New (Unnecessary) Mortal Danger for Trawlermen

August 28, 2019   International News, Mid Atlantic, National, New England, Offshore Wind/Industrialization

The fishermen who work off America’s Atlantic coast, are furious over plans to spear thousands of industrial wind turbines into their fishing grounds, destroying not only the seabed (the source of their income and prosperity), but wrecking their fishing grounds, forever. Trawlermen off the New Jersey coast have already told developers what they can do with their projects: Deepwater in Deep Trouble: Fishermen Tell Off-Shore Wind Farm Developers to F@*#K Off,,, >click to read<  08:21

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