Attorney General Lynch appeals PUC's Deepwater Wind decision to the RI Supreme Court

Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch issued the following statement regarding today's filing of his appeal with the Rhode Island Supreme Court of the August 11th Public Utilities Commision's 2-to1 decision approving Deepwater Wind Block Island LLC's proposal to build an eight-turbine wind farm off the coast of Block Island:

"In appealing the PUC's decision to approve this outrageously bad sweetheart deal for Rhode Island, we appeal to the court of last resort to correct the result of a distorted process during which only one PUC commissioner, Mary Bray, displayed wisdom and courage in voting to block a deal that will line the pockets of Deepwater Wind at the expense of hardworking Rhode Islanders, our state's business community and sustainable economic development. As I've repeated said, I'm all for green energy. But in this case, green energy translates into greenbacks for the developers of an anti-competitive project with a limited scope that will force us to buy overpriced electricity for the next 20 years in order to subsidize one company, rather than jobs that are so deperately needed. It now falls upon a Court that values the Constitution to sort through this tangled web"

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