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Interior Department to Auction Over 79,000 Acres Offshore New York for Wind Energy Development

A line of wind turbines on the surface of the ocean.

Fourteen companies qualified to bid in 6th competitive lease sale

WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2016.  As part of President Obama’s comprehensive Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy resources and cut carbon pollution, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Ross Hopper today announced that 79,350 acres offshore New York will be offered in a December 15 commercial wind lease sale.

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