Letter to the Editor: East Hampton Star 6/29/2020

Misinformation

June 29, 2020

To the Editor,

I am a member of the steering committee of Win With Wind (winwithwind.org). Our mission is to produce fact-based information regarding the benefits of renewable offshore wind energy. It also means that sometimes we call out misinformation when we see it. And we continue to see a campaign of misinformation at the Citizens for the Preservation of Wainscott.

For example, on the C.P.W. website home page they claim that a “230,000-volt electric cable on Beach Lane” will somehow magically become a “460,000-volt” line and run “throughout Wainscott.”

First of all, the cable will be under Beach Lane, as the water mains are under our roads. And, second, the transmission line is 138 kV. Not 230, not 460. C.P.W. knows this. And, third, the cable is decidedly not throughout Wainscott. It will be a singular route, one underground path to the substation at Cove Hollow. And like the water mains that actually do run throughout Wainscott, you will never see the transmission cable.

Also on the C.P.W. website is the phrase “foreign-owned Deepwater Wind.” Are we now to be afraid of “foreign-owned”? This is a shameless fomenting of xenophobia by C.P.W., and it has no place here.

MICHAEL HANSEN

Win With Wind