Vineyard Offshore is committed to developing, permitting, and deploying well-sited offshore wind projects with minimal environmental impact. We also strive to ensure mutually beneficial coexistence of our projects with host communities, fisheries, ocean users, native habitats, and wildlife.
To do so, we work collaboratively with Tribal Nations, as well as environmental, marine, and fisheries stakeholders, to implement best practice approaches to avoid, minimize, and mitigate potential environmental impacts from our projects. For every project, we seek to raise the bar on environmental protection by making industry-leading commitments to conserve and protect threatened and endangered species.
We also conduct and support environmental studies and other independent research to gain greater understanding of the marine environment and inform the design of our projects. And we share environmental and fisheries data publicly. Vineyard Offshore devotes special attention to the issues of greatest concern to federal, state, and local officials as well as Tribes, environmental organizations, academics, and the scientific community. Off the Northeast coast, that means a focus on endangered and threatened marine mammals. Chief among these is the North Atlantic right whale, and in the building of Vineyard Wind 1, Vineyard Offshore has shown what it means to ensure the highest level of protection for this endangered species. Learn more in our marine mammals case study.
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