Virginia Beach, a small beach community in southeastern Virginia, is known for many things: a beautiful pier, the Cape Henry Lighthouse, and First Landing State Park.
But it has made headlines recently for another reason: opposition to an offshore renewable energy project.
On June 20, members of the Sandbridge Beach Civic League, a community group of the seaside community, voted unanimously against Avangrid Renewables’s proposed Kitty Hawk Offshore Wind Project.
The proposed project would build an offshore wind farm about 26 miles off the coast of North Carolina and transport the renewable electricity back to the mainland through underwater cables.
So, why the opposition?…