IN-DEPTH: ‘Sacrificed on the Altar of Green Energy’: Commercial Fishing Industry Faces Extinction If Offshore Wind Turbine Development Continues

IN-DEPTH: ‘Sacrificed on the Altar of Green Energy’: Commercial Fishing Industry Faces Extinction If Offshore Wind Turbine Development Continues
In this May 4, 2012 file photo, a commercial scallop fishing boat enters the Manasquan Inlet in Point Pleasant, N.J. Wayne Parry/AP Photo
Matt McGregor
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Advocates warn that what’s at stake if developers and their foreign investors succeed in constructing offshore wind turbines along the east coast is a crucial food source and a rich cultural heritage preserved among fishermen.

“Generations of fishermen could be sacrificed on the altar of green energy,” Meghan Lapp told The Epoch Times.