New Video Makes Case for America's First Offshore Wind Farm

The Maryland General Assembly is debating legislation this session that would give a boost to the propsed construction of wind turbines in the Atlantic Ocean east of Ocean City. Governor Martin O’Malley’s administration is advocating –- for the second year in a row -- for what could be America’s first offshore wind farm.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and several other environmental, public health, and labor organizations are strongly supportive of the proposal because of its potential for creating jobs and clean energy.  Watch the video to understand why.

Tom Pelton

Chesapeake Bay Foundation

 

Comments

[mspy review]

If Cape Wind were running today, we would be offsetting emissions from other regional sources of electricity. However, over the past hour, generating the same amount of energy from oil, coal or natural gas would have created the following estimated emissions.