PATRIOT RENEWABLES,
LLC
ANNOUNCES PLANS TO DEVELOP
WIND FARM IN BUZZARDS BAY
South Coast Offshore Wind Project plans May
filing of Environmental Notification Form
NEW BEDFORD, MA (May 23, 2006) Patriot Renewables, LLC, a renewable
energy subsidiary of Jay Cashman, Inc., has announced preliminary
plans for a 300 megawatt offshore wind turbine project in Southeastern
Massachusetts. According to Jay Cashman, president of Patriot Renewables,
LLC, an Environmental Notification Form (ENF) will be filed before
the end of May 2006 with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental
Affairs at the Massachusetts Environmental Protection Agency.
Mr. Cashman said his company's goal is to design a
project that meets the region's energy needs by working cooperatively
with local communities and organizations. The working name for the
project is the South Coast Offshore Wind Project.
While the exact location for the estimated 90 to 120
wind-turbine wind farm has yet to be determined, the Buzzards Bay
area provides the optimum location for the siting of a wind farm
as it meets the three most important criteria for a viable commercial
wind energy project: average annual wind speed of 20 mph, sheltered
location with a water depth of no more than 50 to 60 feet and proximity
to existing transmission lines.
Wind energy is important to the future power needs
of the region, said Mr. Cashman. We intend to work closely with
SouthCoast communities, the local, state and federal environmental
and regulatory agencies and other stakeholders to determine the
most feasible way to develop this project.
As the plans for South Coast Wind
are developed, some of the more immediate issues that Patriot Renewables
will be addressing include working closely with the Massachusetts
Audubon Society to protect the endangered roseate terns and other
birds in the region, and working with the U.S. Coast Guard to ensure
that wind turbines are sited well away from shipping channels and
that proper and adequate navigational lighting and fog horns are
used to protect commercial fishing and recreational vessels.
Mr. Cashman stressed, This project and others like
it are vital to making the United States less reliant on oil from
the Middle East. We cannot be held hostage by countries that do
not always have friendly relationships with us. With the jumps in
gasoline prices and conclusive evidence mounting about dramatic
global warming, it is vital that America shift its energy focus
away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy sooner rather
than later. Wind power offers energy generation that is clean, reliable,
free and proven to be compatible with humans and animals.
ISO New England, Inc., the Holyoke-based manager of
New England’s power grid, has issued warnings about rolling
blackouts and brownouts since January 2006. Our energy needs are
growing, and wind power offers a clean, renewable source of energy
that produces no waste products and no greenhouse gas emissions,
Mr. Cashman concluded.
Jay Cashman, Inc. (JCI), parent company of Patriot
Renewables, LLC, is a comprehensive construction company based in
Massachusetts with a well-established track record within the marine,
heavy civil, dredging and environmental construction industries.
JCI, which employs 1,000 people nationwide, has vast experience
in both civil and marine construction and is known for successfully
working in rugged and geo-technically demanding environments. The
company has business activities in every state east of the Mississippi
including Texas. It played a key role in many of Massachusetts most
prominent large scale in-water and water's edge construction projects
including Boston's Deer Island Treatment Facility and the Central
Artery Tunnel. Currently, JCI is building the MBTA Greenbush Line
on a design and build basis. This $250 million project will restore
commuter rail service on the so-called Greenbush corridor through
the towns of Braintree, Weymouth, Hingham, Cohasset and Scituate,
MA. JCI is working on the deepening of the New York/New Jersey harbor.
Recently, JCI was selected to install a 660kW wind turbine generator
on the campus of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy (MMA) in Buzzards
Bay, MA. That wind turbine is expected to generate about 25% of
the power needed on the MMA campus and save taxpayers about $200,000
each year in electricity bills.
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