The
nation has also pushed to remove wastebeds up to 80 feet deep on the west
shore of the lake where Onondaga County plans to
build an 17,500 - seat amphitheater.
Wind development areas were leased off the Delaware and Maryland
shores last year, and the BOEM issued the
nation's first offshore wind research lease in March to Virginia's Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, which plans to
build a 12 megawatt wind farm off the
shore of Virginia Beach.