Hey everybody my guest today is Bonnie Brady who's the executive director for the last 24 years of the Long Island Commercial Fishers fishing Association and we're going to talk about offshore wind which is a long-term

interests of mine as an environmentalist and somebody who wants to reduce

carbon wind power has always been one of the solutions I've been

involved in building wind plants my brother is deeply involved in that

industry on onshore wind but I've also been on the other side

of fighting offshore win. And one of the big proposals that I fought in the night, in the end of the 1990s, the beginning of the 2000s, was the Cape Wind Project.

And I mainly, I was asked to get involved because of my relationship with commercial,

my 40 year relationship with commercial fishermen on the east coast and the Hudson

in Long Island Sound in North Carolina elsewhere represented. in the Cape Cod

Cape Cod fishermen contacted me from Haidterman

contacted me from Hyannas, from Chatham, from Wellfleet, because of the threat to their fishing

grounds that would be posed by these giant offshore wind turbines that were going to be put in and tug at the sound.

And the injury with the danger was to the fishing gear, their capacity to actually get

onto their fishing ground safely. There were four million boating trips a year and

a lot of it in the fog on that part of Cape God. A lot of these boats don't have sophisticated

radar and it was a real, it was a hazard. It was a, it was a real it was a hazard it was a it was a boating hazard and particularly when you've got

high winds if a engine goes out on the boat they can blow down onto the turbines and, you know, and put

human life in danger.

And when you're hauling nets that are, that are thousands of yards out behind your boat.

That gear can also get wound up around the turbines

and you can end up killing people and

destroying fishing equipment.

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