The (BOEM) is in the planning and analysis stage of developing three sites for wind energy. The specified sites are outside Coos Bay, Bandon, and Brookings, and their collective output would come to 17 gigawatts.
Amira Streeter is Governor Brown鈥檚 Natural Resources Policy Advisor. At a BOEM task force meeting today, Streeter said the state鈥檚 committed to 100% clean electricity by 2040, to fight climate change.
鈥淲e are looking to nurture a budding industry, while continuing to value and protect our essential natural resources along Oregon鈥檚 outer continental shelf,鈥� said Streeter. 鈥淭his includes making sure and holding up the communities that rely on these resources and can benefit from a new green economy.鈥�
Some commercial fishing and seafood processing groups have raised concerns over the plan, saying the turbines could disrupt marine habitat or their operations.
鈥淲e have concerns primarily about displacement of Oregon fishermen,鈥� Susan Chambers of the Southern Oregon Ocean Resource Coalition told KLCC. 鈥淎nd what that effect will have on processors of course, and local communities.
鈥淲e just don鈥檛 know to what extent these areas will eliminate fishing grounds for sport or commercial fishermen. We don鈥檛 know what effect these giant turbines will have on the ecosystem.鈥�
At its latest task force meeting today, BOEM and state officials assured that a 鈥渕easured approach鈥� would be taken in developing sites outside Coos Bay, Bandon, and Brookings.
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