Oregon is facing its largest energy development project in generations: more than 200,000 acres of offshore wind turbines proposed for the central and southern Oregon coast. According to a 2022 paper in the journal Ocean Sustainability, expanding offshore wind “may lead to significant environmental impacts.”
That’s not a surprise when you consider what’s involved: hundreds of steel turbines, each approaching the height of the Empire State Building, floating on platforms the size of baseball stadiums anchored to the sea floor with miles of steel cables.
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