[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, ENERGY: Ordnance found at UK offshore wind site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[I wonder if offshore wind farms in or near U.S. training ranges will 
face similar risks. - LS]



Bomb at Sheringham Shoal offshore wind site

Renewable Energy Focus (UK)
April 30, 2010

A 250 lb air-dropped German WWII bomb has been safely detonated on the 
Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm site.

Wind farm developer, Scira Offshore Energy Ltd commissioned an 
unexploded ordnances (UXO) survey as part of its reconstruction 
preparations and the bomb was found at the site of one of its foundation 
locations in the north-west of the offshore wind farm site.

A total of 52 targets were investigated by divers and using a remote 
operated vehicle (ROV). While most of the targets were debris or 
geological concentrations, several anchors and an old canon were found, 
as well as the unexploded bomb.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.renewableenergyfocus.com/view/9135/bomb-at-sheringham-shoal-offshore-wind-site/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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