Ocean City will contribute up to $100,000 to support Worcester County’s public relations campaign against offshore wind.
The Ocean City Council last Wednesday agreed to contribute up to $100,000 in matching funds to Worcester County for an opposition campaign targeting offshore wind. Officials report the county has contracted with Bedrock Advocacy Communications, which will work with Worcester County, Ocean City and local businesses to share messaging “on the harmful impacts of the US Wind project on our environment and economy.”
“We’re all in, and I hate to miss an opportunity to really capitalize on what might be great time to get our message out,” Mayor Rick Meehan said last week.
In December, the Worcester County Commissioners agreed to hire Bedrock Advocacy Communications, a public relations firm based in Virginia, to lead a public relations fight against US Wind, which is seeking to develop a 114-turbine project roughly 10 miles off Maryland’s coast. The campaign, they said, would go hand-in-hand with other local opposition efforts – including a city-led lawsuit against the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and a county-led plan to acquire two West Ocean City properties through eminent domain.
County officials noted the public relations agency will help with grassroots mobilization, strategic communications and online engagement. Worcester has committed $100,000 toward the campaign and has requested that Ocean City matches their funding amount up to $100,000.
“While the scope of work with Bedrock is meant to be scalable as needed, at this point the county’s contribution to the campaign will not exceed $100,000,” Worcester County Chief Administrative Officer Weston Young wrote in his request to the city. “We are asking the Town of Ocean City to match that amount. Further, there are private donations that are accumulating for this cause as well.”
No worries, our taxable assessments were increased to cover paying out-of-staters to fight the globalists on our behalf!
Unknown people will get wealthy from this wind mill project, they will fight like Hell to get their projected income. We must not give up and fight back with vengeance to save the whales means of travel as well as the harbor our local fishermen need, it is a way of life for them and have a right to continue that life style. Don’t be fooled by the lower electric rates propaganda. There will be surcharges on everyone’s electric bill to pay for this project. That’s right, we will be paying to get higher electric bills and to fill people’s pockets we don’t even know. This is the Eastern Shore, lets all stick together on this.
Here’s part of the bread crumb trail brought to you by your “friends” at the Greater Salisbury Committee. These folks, led by Mike Dunn care nothing about locals and our quality of life. Read this and check out the people involved.
From the HSC website…
From the GSC website…
“OFFSHORE WIND
GSC is playing a strong regional role in advancing the Offshore Wind industry, working closely with the two entities who are bringing Offshore Wind energy to Maryland: Orsted and US Wind. We believe our region can be a key player in the Operations and Maintenance supply chain that will be needed over the next 20 years as Offshore Wind comes to the area. Orsted and US Wind will bring the largest wind turbines in the world off the coast of Ocean City in the next five years.”
Not okay!