Real Leadership

a letter to the editor of the East Hampton Star

September 13, 2020

Dear David,

Thank you, East Hampton Town Board and Trustees for taking climate change seriously and finalizing the host community agreement with Deepwater/Orsted. The host community agreement covers many items, such as adding facilities and jobs in East Hampton, hiring an individual to facilitate communications with the commercial fishing community, and paying the town and the trustees almost $29 million over 25 years. The town will grant an easement and the trustees will grant a lease so the transmission cable can be brought ashore under the beach and then buried under the roads in Wainscott.

Climate change is upon us. Temperatures and sea levels are rising, forest fires are wreaking havoc on the West coast, hurricanes are becoming more frequent and more severe. The action taken by the town board and trustees shows real leadership. East Hampton is lucky to have them.

JEREMIAH T. MULLIGAN