Less effect on the fish if it's built off the shore of a "working-class" area?
The 3,000 Member Massachusetts Fishermen's Partnership Weigh in on Wind Farm Radar SAFETY in a two page letter (with membership list attached) strongly supporting the amendment to H.R.889 which would prohibit the siting of any offshore wind energy facility within 1.5 nautical miles of established shipping lanes and ferry routes.
Addressed to the U. S. House of Representatives and Senate Conferees by Edward J. Barrett, President of the Massachusetts Fisherman's Partnership, Inc. an organization representing 18 commercial fisherman's associations with 3,000 members from all gear and geographic sectors of the Massachusetts fishing industry, the letter states that a wind energy facility consisting of 130 wind powered generators in a grid occupying 24 square miles of the Nantucket Sound whose waters are normally fished daily in rain, snow an even fog would be in the middle of one of the richest fishing grounds in the region, Horseshoe Shoal.
Um... personally I would love to put them right smack dab in the middle of the Kennedy compound but if it is an issue to fishermen then I would be more concerned about it.
Does anyone have links to fishermen that support it?