The complaint asks DNREC to start over and redo its permit process for the offshore wind project.
The Caesar Rodney Institute and two individuals have asked the Superior Court of the State of Delaware in Sussex County to prohibit the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) from issuing permits for an offshore wind project.
“DNREC is not following its own rules and regulations in filing this permit process,” said David Stevenson, director of the Center for Energy & Environmental Policy at the Caesar Rodney Institute . “They didn’t give proper notice, they’ve missed some of the key points that they’re supposed to do when they start a regulation. So we are asking them at this point to start over again and do it right.”
US Wind has requested the permits to allow the company to bring transmission lines ashore and under the Indian River Bay to a proposed substation to be located next to the Indian River Power Plant.
Those against the project have cited that it will ruin ocean views and negatively affect the state’s tourism industry and beach economy.