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Rhode Island wind farm forum gets heated; police seek person of interest
A wind farm forum in Newport, Rhode Island, got a little heated last week when a man intervened after attendees raised concerns about offshore wind turbine structures, one of which recently fell apart and left debris in the ocean.
In a video shared on Facebook by the Newport Police Department, a woman is seen standing in front of the crowd wearing a pair of gloves and holding what she claimed to be a fiberglass shard that washed ashore from the damaged turbine.
As she was showing the item, a man walked up and grabbed a bag belonging to the woman. He also grabbed at a flat box containing other items before walking away with the bag and throwing it on the ground and returning to his seat.
People in the crowd could be heard saying, “Wow” and “This is a democracy.”
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Newport, Rhode Island, police shared a video of a man at a wind turbine hearing disrupting people as they spoke. (Newport Police Department)
The same man is then seen getting up out of his chair again holding what appeared to be an index card and leaning toward the same woman, who was still speaking.
When the woman refused to take the card, the man reached for the fiberglass shard she was holding, missed and inserted the index card between the frame of the woman’s glasses and her face.
“Disrespect, sir,” a person in the crowd is heard saying.
In another clip, as a different woman attempted to stand at a podium and speak, the man walked over and snatched the microphone, unplugged it and placed it behind the panel of speakers in the front of the room.
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Newport, Rhode Island, police shared a video of a man at a wind turbine forum disrupting people as they spoke. (Newport Police Department)
The Newport Energy and Environment Commission’s video of the hearing showed a slide that listed the panelists as state Sen. Dawn Euer, Brown University professor Stephen Porder and Save The Bay Executive Director Topher Hamblett.
At the end of the clip shared by police, one of the panelists told one of the women, “You guys set us back a half-hour after your outburst, and you’re leaving early?”
The video was taken down from the police department’s Facebook page Wednesday. Police told Fox News Digital the man in the video has been identified, though no arrests have been made.
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Newport, Rhode Island, police shared a video of a man at a wind turbine forum disrupting people as they spoke. (Newport Police Department)
When asked what, if any, charges the man would face, police said there was no further information to add, noting it’s an ongoing investigation.
The Newport Buzz, a local blog, shared on X that less than 12 hours after it discovered the man from the meeting was “featured prominently” on the campaign website of U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., changes were made to the site.
The current photo on the senator’s campaign site shows Whitehouse shaking hands with a woman, though the internet archive shows a different picture.
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The snapshot taken from the senator’s campaign site Wednesday shows Whitehouse bumping fists with a woman wearing a hard hat and a person standing behind the senator also wearing a hard hat. Three people were not wearing hard hats in the photo, including Whitehouse and the man from the meeting, who is looking at the camera.
A photo since scrubbed from the campaign website of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., shows a man of interest allegedly involved in an incident during a wind turbine forum last week in Newport, R.I. (Sen. Whitehouse campaign website)
Fox News Digital has reached out to Whitehouse’s office seeking information about why the image was swapped and what the man’s connection is to the senator. Whitehouse’s office did not immediately respond to the inquiries.
Last month, large chunks of a damaged wind turbine blade from Vineyard Wind continued to wash up on Nantucket’s south shore beaches.
Vineyard Wind said in a statement the blade was damaged, and it was conducting a cleanup effort on the southern-facing shores of the island as hundreds of pieces of large and small debris washed up.
The Nantucket Harbormaster closed all south shore beaches because of the debris, though walking was permitted under caution.
Vineyard Wind is a joint venture between foreign entities Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, which built wind farms off the coast of Massachusetts. The company is a beneficiary of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the signature domestic policy achievement of the Biden-Harris administration.
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In October, Vineyard Wind boasted of a $1.2 billion “first-of-its-kind tax equity package” for commercial scale offshore wind with three U.S.-based banks, calling it “the largest single asset tax equity financing and the first for a commercial scale offshore wind project.”
Vineyard Wind 1 began on-site construction in late 2021 and completed the nation’s first offshore substation in July 2023. It is an 800 MW project located 15 miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard and is the first commercial scale offshore wind project in the U.S.
FOX Weather contributed to this report.
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Mohammed: I am originally from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. I have covered economic and business news for about a decade now, reporting for the likes of Reuters, Bloomberg, and Quartz. Most recently, I was a US economy reporter at Newsweek.
Q: What will you be doing at The Boston Globe’s Rhode Island bureau?
Mohammed: I will be covering all things economy and business in Rhode Island, as well as news from Bristol County in Massachusetts, and I will be based in Providence.
Q: What’s something people should know about you?
Mohammed: I am passionate about reporting on economic issues, but I also love writing about sports. I was lucky to be at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics where I covered men’s basketball and track and field. I am also a huge soccer fan and love to play and watch the game. In another metaverse, I am probably a professional soccer player.
Q: Tell us about a story you wrote that you are proud of.
Mohammed: I am really proud of this piece I published with The Guardian about the NBA and its ambition to start a brand new league in Africa. I traveled to Dakar, Senegal, to report the story where the Basketball Africa League is headquartered. The story captured the aspirations of young basketball players on the continent and tried to answer the question of why the NBA chose Africa to establish its first professional league outside of North America. I love that story because I was able to bring together all my different loves — culture, sports, business — while giving insight into how young Africans are going after their dreams.
Q: Since you’re new to Rhode Island, what’s the number one thing you’re looking forward to doing in our quirky little state?
Mohammed: I have been reading my new teammate Alexa Gagosz’s coverage of the food scene here, so I am looking forward to exploring that side of the state.
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When the U.S. team in the America’s Cup preliminary regatta takes to the waters off Barcelona on Thursday, it will be a Newport resident and University of Rhode Island graduate coaching the crew.
Tom Burnham grew up sailing in Orange, Connecticut. In his senior year of high school, already competing at the international level, Burnham raced in the 420s championship in Yugoslavia, where his teammates included some URI sailors who sang the university’s praises.
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“I’ve sailed all my life. I was never a standout superstar but I was always involved in sailing and loved sailing,” Burnham said from Barcelona, Spain, as American Magic prepares for the 37th America’s Cup, which starts Thursday with the preliminary regatta. “It was one of the main reasons I went to URI, frankly. And the sailing team was really good at the time.”
In his four years at Kingston, the sailing team won several national championships and reached the World Collegiate Keelboat Championships (also called the Student Yachting World Cup) all four years. In 1990, the Rams became the only U.S. team to win the World Cup. It’s a distinction they still hold 34 years later.
In 1997, Burnham was living in Newport, doing some coaching and taking care of people’s boats, when he got an invitation to go out for a day with America’s Cup challenger Young America, which was training in nearby Quonset Point. That turned into a job that started a 10-year run of competing in the America’s Cup, including two campaigns with the Italian team, Luna Rossa. In 2017, he returned to the America’s Cup as head coach of Sweden’s Artemis Racing.
He was hired about two years ago to coach the New York Yacht Club American Magic, with a goal to win the 37th America’s Cup, returning the Cup to the yacht club that held it for 132 years. The mission starts Thursday, when American Magic gets its first close-up look at the four challengers — Britain, Italy, Switzerland, and France – and defending champion Emirates Team New Zealand in preliminary regatta. The racing starts for real Aug. 29 with the start of the Louis Vuitton Cup round-robin regatta. The regatta’s winner will face New Zealand for the America’s Cup, starting Oct. 12.
In those two years readying for the Cup, American Magic has put together its eight-man crew and substitutes and built a brand new AC75, the 75-foot-long monohull racing yacht that the Cup adopted in 2021. The yacht – Patriot – was the work of the club’s more than 40 engineers, about a third of the club’s total workforce. Patriot was built in Portsmouth at the yacht club’s manufacturing facility and flown to Barcelona on a cargo plane.
“The whole technology, construction, and design side is really a big part of the program with America’s Cup teams,” he says. “So that’s really exciting.”
Asked about his role as head coach, his first thoughts go to creating an inclusive team atmosphere.
“My real goal, my focus as a coach, is to create the environment for learning … where people feel comfortable asking questions and allowing themselves to be open to input, feedback and learning together,” he says.
As the crew practices off the Port of Barcelona, Burnham coaches from a chase boat, following behind Patriot and communicating directly with its crew. When racing begins, he will be in the chase boat, but stationed to the side of the race course and not allowed communication with Patriot.
“That’s part of the reason why fostering this atmosphere and getting guys to work together and problem-solve is so important,” he says. “They have to be self-reliant and deal with things as they come up while they’re racing.”
Asked to handicap the Cup, Burnham starts with his standard line: It will be close and come down to execution on race day.
But he adds: “I certainly like our sailing team … and I think the boats are going to be relatively similar. There are going to be some boats that have better days than others in terms of wind conditions. There might be some teams that are great in heavy air but not so good in light air. These are all things we’re going to find out in the next couple of weeks.
“I think that we’re doing well and we’re in a good place, but I’m certainly not overconfident about it either.”
Rhode Island Medical Imaging and its 90 physicians have agreed to join independent practice coalition Strategic Radiology, the two announced Wednesday.
Around for over 80 years, RIMI has a network of 16 private diagnostic imaging facilities overseen by its staff of subspecialized radiologists. The practice also performs procedures and interprets images for 10 Rhode Island hospitals and one more in Massachusetts.
Practice President John Pezzullo, MD, said Rhode Island Medical Imaging made the decision to help preserve its autonomy.
“RIMI is proud to join the Strategic Radiology community and is committed to continuing as a physician owned and operated independent practice,” Pezzullo, an associate professor of diagnostic imaging at Brown University, said in a statement. “In becoming part of this esteemed organization, we not only expect to strengthen our independent practice model by taking advantage of SR’s operational efficiencies, but also contribute to the future success of the organization by sharing best practices.”
Rhode Island Medical Imaging is currently developing a peer learning program and maintains a “sophisticated” quality infrastructure, Strategic Radiology noted. The American College of Radiology has recognized its outpatient offices as Centers of Excellence, and the ACR and Joint Commission have accredited the academic and community hospital radiology departments RIMI serves.
“RIMI’s commitment to quality patient care, independent practice, and the future of the specialty are private practice hallmarks shared by all Strategic Radiology members,” Scott Bundy, MD, chair and CEO of Strategic Radiology, said in the same statement.
The practice reached its considerable size, in part, through acquisition, adding Radiology Associates and its three locations in 2015.
Strategic Radiology now represents over 40 privately owned, independent practices employing 1,800-plus physicians. Most recently, Wake Radiology in Raleigh, North Carolina, and its 60 rads joined SR earlier this month.
Here is its full list of members:
- Advanced Radiology Services, Grand Rapids, Mich.
- ARA Health Specialists, Asheville, N.C.
- Carolina Radiology Associates, Myrtle Beach, S.C.
- Casper Medical Imaging and Outpatient Radiology, Casper, Wyo.
- Catawba Radiology Associates, Hickory, N.C.
- Chesapeake Medical Imaging, Annapolis, Md.
- Delaney Radiology, Wilmington, N.C.
- Gaston Radiology, Gastonia, N.C.
- The Hill Medical Corporation, Pasadena, Calif.
- Hot Springs Radiology Services, Hot Springs, Ark.
- Huron Valley Radiology, a division of Advanced Imaging Alliance; Ann Arbor, Mich.
- IntelliRad Imaging, Miami.
- Intercity Radiology, Bozeman, Mont.
- Mecklenburg Radiology Associates, Charlotte, N.C.
- Mountain Medical Physician Specialists, Salt Lake City.
- Naugatuck Valley Radiological Associates, a division of Advanced Imaging Alliance, Waterbury, Conn.
- Northwest Radiologists, Bellingham, Wash.
- Northwest Radiology, Indianapolis.
- Pacific Imaging Associates, Portland, Ore.
- Quantum Radiology, Atlanta.
- Radiologic Medical Services, Iowa City, Iowa.
- Radiology Associates, Corpus Christi, Texas.
- Radiology Associates, Jeffersonville, Ind.
- Radiology Associates, Eugene, Ore.
- Radiology Associates of Albuquerque, N.M.
- Radiology Associates of Macon, Ga.
- Radiology Associates of North Texas, Dallas.
- Radiology Associates of Richmond, Va.
- Radiology Associates of Tallahassee, Fla.
- Regional Diagnostic Radiology, Sartell, Minn.
- Rhode Island Medical Imaging, Warwick, R.I.
- Riverside Radiology Medical Group, Riverside, Calif.
- Rome Radiology Group, Rome, Ga.
- Skagit Radiology, Mount Vernon, Wash.
- Southern Radiology Consultants, Baton Rouge, La.
- Summit Radiology, Fort Wayne, Ind.
- Tower Imaging Medical Group, Santa Monica, Calif.
- Triad Radiology Associates, Winston-Salem, N.C.
- United Imaging Consultants, Mission, Kan.
- Wake Radiology, Raleigh, N.C.
- X-Ray Consultants, a division of Advanced Imaging Alliance, South Bend, Ind.
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