OCEAN CITY, N.J. — A tangle of lawsuits might hold-up the start of New Jersey’s initially offshore wind energy job, as designer Orsted is takinglegalactionagainst federalgovernments to stop delaying needed allows, and people groups shot to stop the task entirely.
The newest in a fast-growing thicket of lawsuits came July 3 when Danish wind power designer Orsted tooklegalactionagainst Cape May County, declaring the federalgovernment is dragging its feet in providing a roadway license required to do test work along the path a power cabletelevision would run.
The business is likewise takinglegalactionagainst the city of Ocean City over comparable hold-ups to the job, which the federal federalgovernment hasactually backed as a substantial piece in the White House’s efforts to “jump-start the overseas wind market throughout the nation,” in order to takeon the disastrous results of environment modification.
Last month, 3 people groups opposed to overseas wind — Save Long Beach Island, Defend Brigantine Beach, and Protect Our Coast NJ — submitted an appeal of New Jersey’s decision that the Ocean Wind I task is constant with state seaside management guidelines.
And one of those groups, Save Long Beach Island, is likewise takinglegalactionagainst a federal firm, the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, over its production of overseas wind lease websites off the coast of New Jersey.
Orsted is turning to the courts to shot to end federalgovernment inertia that might threaten its objective to start building in the fall.
Its suit versus Cape May County declares the hold-up in providing a roadway work perm