New Jersey Locals Employ Innovative Legal Strategies to Block Ocean Wind Farms

Seaside community groups banded together to challenge New Jersey environmental approvals and financial subsidies for Ocean Wind 1—a wind farm sited off the Jersey Shore. Although the project’s developer, Danish energy giant Orsted, abandoned it on Nov. 1, the environmental advocates say the threat isn’t over, and they’re preparing to fight again. “We want to stop these projects from happening,” Robin Shaffer, spokesman for Protect Our Coast NJ, told The Epoch Times. “This is … David versus Goliath. We’re taking in small contributions for the most part, and we’re combating multibillion-dollar energy companies, as well as the federal government and the state government of New Jersey.”...