BlueGreen Alliance Submits Comments on BOEM’s Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for Commercial Wind Leasing and Site Assessment Activities off the Oregon Coast
March 22, 2024
In its comments, the BlueGreen Alliance wrote: “As BOEM works to develop an EA, we urge the agency to ensure that offshore wind equitably achieves the maximum beneficial impacts by including robust assessment of whether projects meet the following standards:
- Maximize the creation of quality, high-paying union jobs over projects’ lifetime;
- Expand U.S. manufacturing along robust domestic, regional, and local supply chains;
- Deliver community benefits with attention to improving access to disadvantaged communities;
- Protect fisheries, wildlife, and marine ecosystems by utilizing data sharing, the best available science and data, and adaptive management strategies to avoid, minimize, mitigate, and monitor environmental impacts; and
- Are guided by robust and inclusive stakeholder engagement, including labor organizations, Tribal nations, historically underrepresented or disadvantaged communities, low-wealth communities, communities of color, and impacted ocean users including fishing communities.”
Read the full document at the link below.