Advocates warn that what’s at stake if developers and their foreign investors succeed in constructing offshore wind turbines along the east coast is a crucial food source and a rich cultural heritage preserved among fishermen.
“Generations of fishermen could be sacrificed on the altar of green energy,” Meghan Lapp told The Epoch Times.
Lapp is a representative for a commercial fishing company in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, called Seafreeze Ltd.
According to Lapp, commercial fishing is the seventh most regulated industry in the nation, more regulated than the pharmaceutical industry and oil and gas extraction.
“We are not free to go where we want, when we want, and catch what we want,” Lapp said. “As a result, the ocean is a very small place.”…