The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has announced that the development of offshore wind leasing areas in the Gulf of Mexico will have no significant impacts on environmental resources.
The environmental assessment (EA) considered the potential environmental consequences of site characterisation activities (i.e., biological, archeological, geological, and geophysical surveys and core samples) and site assessment activities (i.e., installation of meteorological buoys) associated with the possibility of issuing wind energy leases in the Gulf of Mexico.