NOVEMBER 28, 2024
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BERLIN • NORTH WORCESTER COUNTY• OCEAN PINES
OPA joins resort in wind farm challenge Ocean Pines Association partnering as co-plaintiff with Worcester, OC, others By Tara Fischer Staff Writer (Nov. 28, 2024) The Ocean Pines Association has joined the legal fight against wind turbines off Ocean City. At the community’s monthly board meeting last Saturday, the OPA Board of Directors agreed the community will join the fight against US Wind’s plan to construct 114 wind turbines 10.7 miles off the coast of Ocean City and Fenwick Island, Del. OPA will officially enter as a coplaintiff into litigation against the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), part of the U.S. Department of the Interior, alongside the Town of Ocean City, the Worcester County Commissioners, the Town Council of Fenwick Island, the Ocean City Chamber of Commerce, the White Marlin Open, the Ocean City Marlin Club, the Harrison Group, Castle in the Sand, Coastal Association of Realtors and others. The Town of Ocean City retained the Washington D.C.-based Marzulla Law, LLC, to file the suit against BOEM in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in October after the U.S. Department of the Interior announced approval of the wind initiative on Sept. 5. Ocean City is arguing the federal government failed to secure regulatory requirements in its favorable recommendation of the project. The wind turbines proposed for the Delmarva Peninsula, which would extend roughly 900 feet above the ocean’s surface, are part of a federal and state effort to reduce harmful See OPA Page 3
O’ CHRISTMAS TREE In advance of Friday’s tree lighting ceremony during Ice Ice Berlin, the Town of Berlin welcomed its new holiday centerpiece to its home in front of the Atlantic Hotel. The tree has been a holiday fixture downtown for decades and heralds the numerous Yuletide festivities that will occur in the town’s commercial center over the coming weeks. PHOTO COURTESY TOWN OF BERLIN
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