New Jersey offshore wind project poses threat to sleep hygiene, experts say

Expert noise consultants are concerned that an offshore wind project set to be built just 9 miles off the New Jersey coast would generate noise levels that could cause sleep disruptions and other negative health impacts.

Save Long Beach Island, a grassroots community organization focused on stopping the construction of the Atlantic Shores South project, hired two companies to conduct an analysis of the project’s noise effects upon discovering that the Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind nor the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management have ever conducted a noise disruption analysis for an offshore wind project so close to the shoreline.

Rather than conducting an analysis, the BOEM found in its environmental impact statement that “onshore noise from offshore activities will be negligible” and “operational noise from the

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