Gina G. Scala

FacebookTwitterEmailPrintCopy LinkShare Mayors from all six Long Beach Island municipalities were among the signatories of a letter to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities objecting to Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind’s plan to rebid its existing offshore renewable energy certificates.

The parent company of Atlantic City Electric is slamming claims it increased efforts to forcibly collect monies from delinquent customers ahead of the Nov. 15 moratorium on electricity shutoffs. “The company is currently making a final attempt to contact approximately 150 customers regarding possible disconnection,” said Candice Womer, a spokeswoman for Exelon Corp., which owns the South Jersey utility company. […]

Before Congressman Jeff Van Drew meets with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to discuss the next steps in its intervention into surging utility bills in South Jersey, he urged New Jersey regulatory officials to begin their own investigation into Atlantic City Electric. In an Oct. 16 letter to Christine Guhl-Sadovy, president of the N.J. Board of Public Utilities, Van Drew […]

Ship Bottom is slated to ask Ocean County to pave the parking area at Remembrance Park on Fourth Street sometime next year after a brief discussion about its 2025 Schedule C projects with the county road department. “Generally, we use $50,000. It does go into our budget,” Kathleen Flanagan, borough administrator, said. “We do pay them, but it’s at a […]

Ship Bottom officials are continuing their more than decade-old work to address flood mitigation from storms as well as nuisance flooding in some of the most problematic areas, which has already resulted in a pump station on Central Avenue and an ordinance regulating bulkheads. “In an effort to gather all the data, we had a survey done. We just received […]

A local grassroots organization condemned an arm of the federal government for spurning the National Environmental Policy Act as it completed its final review to assess potential offshore wind development actions across 488,000 acres in the New York Bight, an area north of the Atlantic Shores South project. The latter offshore wind farm is planned off the coast of Long […]

The Regional Wildlife Science Collaborative for Offshore Wind and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are teaming up with the federal government to implement its passive acoustic monitoring program for offshore wind observation. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management launched the Partnership for an Offshore Wind Energy Observation Network (POWERON) Oct. 29. RWSC is slated to receive $4 million over […]

A veteran, by definition, is someone who has served in the military and/or a person with lengthy experience in a particular field. On Veterans Day, both kinds of veterans came together at LBI Table in Ship Bottom for a day celebrating freedom and independence. “This has been a fabulous day,” said Sue Sharkey, who founded the nonprofit organization Compassion Café, […]

FacebookTwitterEmailPrintCopy LinkShare While President-elect Donald Trump is expected to make sweeping changes to the national energy policy, including doing away with offshore wind on Day 1 of his new term, a local grassroots organization isn’t letting that news get in its way of fighting the construction of what is poised to be the country’s largest wind farm some 9 miles off the coast of Long Beach Island.

FacebookTwitterEmailPrintCopy LinkShare While President-elect Donald Trump has promised to do away with offshore wind, it’s unknown whether his incoming administration will follow Sweden’s lead of rejecting certain projects due to concerns over radar interference and its impact on national security.