Author name: Paul Forsberg

Numbers Don’t Lie …. People and Emotions Do I’m laying in bed the other night thinking about a few of the recent conversations I’ve had with some of the “Not In My Back Yard” (NIMBY) Offshore Wind Haters. The conversations all seem to be the same – highly emotional accusations backed up by zero facts

Make no mistake, as an opinion piece, with roots from within the industry, I could hardly believe I was so SPOT ON! Back in December of 2019, I wrote a blog titled “Offshore Wind – A Savior To Struggling Fishing Communities” It was written as a “forward looking” opinion piece, ruffled a lot of feathers

 “How to Turn Offshore Wind Nay-Sayers into Yea-Sayers, turn the headwinds into fair winds and following seas and gain support from fishing communities.” It’s True … Offshore Wind in the North East is facing serious headwinds when it comes to public opinion because a small group of anti-windfarm “Nay-Sayers” who currently control the microphone. The

I’m Not Going To Lie – I Thought Windmills Were a Joke. A Huge Step Backwards. To think we could get enough energy out of a windmill was laughable I thought.  Bird Blenders I called them and even bought the domain birdblenders.com thinking one day it might become useful. I hated the idea of windmills

A New Frontier Is Staring The Fishing Industry In The Face …. How Many Will Take Advantage?   I’m a bit befuddled. Everyone I speak to in the fishing business is complaining.Cutbacks, Regulations, Quantity, Size Limits, Closures, a Short Season, etc. Kinda-Like a broken record, everyone says the the same thing ..… “It’s Over …

The Answer To This Question of Course, Is Yes – They Have To Because There Is No Way Around It. I’m not talking about coming together and singing coumbia songs around a campfire, but both parties need to come together and create a dialogue between both user groups. In order for this to happen though,

Just three short years ago there were five giant wind turbines in the waters off Block Island in Rhode Island. They started spinning 30 MW of electricity to that tiny community of about a thousand residents. While it remains the only offshore wind farm in the U.S., that’s about to dramatically change! As of April

WARNING – If you’re an Anti-Wind Farmer on blood pressure medication, you might want to take a couple pills before reading this. Can Offshore Wind Farms Grow Into Ocean Reefs? You Bet They Can Because It’s Already Happening! It’s No Secret… The Gulf of Mexico was mostly a desert until the Offshore Oil Platforms arrived