United States Senator for Virginia, Tim Kaine, has released the following statement on the U.S. Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announcement that allows Virginia to pursue a research lease to help accelerate the development of offshore wind turbines:
“This is good news for the Commonwealth. Virginia’s geography and coastal infrastructure make it an ideal place for offshore wind. This effort will create jobs and produce energy from an inexhaustible resource.”
BOEM recently announced that it has taken an important step toward issuing a wind energy research lease to the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Department of Mines Minerals and Energy (DMME), after finding that there is no competitive interest in the area where the state agency proposes to conduct activities.
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Press release, March 17, 2013; Image: kaine.senate.gov