Tell the New Jersey Bureau of Public Utilities (BPU) that we won't be human guinea pigs in their risky experiment.
Please cut and paste the following message into an email to each of the commissioners. Names and email addresses appear below the letter. Your email greeting should include the commissioner's name even though the email address is to the assistant.
Dear Commissioner:
I am writing to you to implore you to pause in your headlong efforts to run risky high-powered wind energy cables along residential streets and recreational areas in my town and others along the Jersey Shore. I and many of my neighbors are scared to death of the unintended consequences of these high-voltage EMF cables slated to make landfall in Sea Girt and travel through Sea Girt, Manasquan, Wall, and Howell.
More than 200 homes, three schools, and athletic fields along the proposed onshore transmission routes will be directly impacted. Many homes are within 10-15 yards of your proposed high-voltage lines. We can find no record of such high-power lines being run under areas so close to where people, live, work, play, and go to school.
While I commend the Board’s efforts to marshal cost-effective clean renewable energy resources, there is no factual evidence to support the efficacy, safety, or cost-effectiveness of the Atlantic Shores project. In fact, there is much evidence to the contrary.
There are also many questions about the health, safety, and environmental risks of such high-voltage power lines running beneath residential streets. While not definitive, there is research that shows exposure to electromagnetic fields may increase the risk of childhood cancers and cause various types of effects on nervous tissue, and, in severe cases, even irreversible damage.
From everything I've read this initiative is more about fulfilling Governor Murphy’s alternative energy mandate than taking better care of the planet or providing, clean, safe, cost-effective energy to New Jersey residents.
This is a highly risky project that has moved forward with an unprecedented lack of transparency -- something required of you as a BPU leader. I am calling upon you to pause this project until the risks are better understood and clearly communicated to the people who will be impacted by your decisions.