b'2American Journal ofTransportation ajot.comGreat Lakes wind power: Will a saga of lost chances change? PROJECT CARGO Bringing wind power to the Great Lakes has thusBI-ANNUALfar been a saga of missed opportunities with more timespentonlegalchallengesthanengineering complexities. But is that changing? By Matt Miller, AJOTIn August, the Ohio Supremeamajorsourceofeconomic Courtissuedagreenlightdevelopment. States are now for construction of a modestfallingovereachotherto 20.7MW demonstration windattract related businesses and farm in Lake Erie. The courthostmanufacturingfacilities decision came six years afterand staging grounds.apublic-privatepartnershipBy contrast, Great Lakes won a Department of Energywindpowerisbarelymen-granttobuildtheinstalla- tioned in the conversation. It tion,andtwoyearsafterais considered at best an after-fewlakesideresidentssuedthought. to stop it. Oceanicoffshorewind Thatdelaypalesincom- is a proven and growing renew-parison with whats happeningableenergytechnologythat onLakeOntario.A380MWcan be sited in proximity to projectontheCanadiansidecoastalloadcenters,said has been mired in litigation for(SAGAcontinued on11 years, with a Canadian Court page 17) The BBC Alberta unloading wind energy components at Keefer Terminal of Port of Thunder Bayof AppealshearingscheduledACL Breakbulk_AJOT_Layout 19/14/223:42 PMPage 1for next January.TheGreatLakesoffers enormousopportunitiesforWe H a v e A B e t t e rWa yTo M o v ewind-poweredenergy.So far,however,thatpotentialBREAKBULKremainstotallyunfulfilled. While theres some evidence thatlakeswindpowerisnt completely dead in the water,CARGO!theindustrymustrevive something long dormant.Im hopeful that it will proceed,saidPatrickFul-lenkamp,aprincipalwithNo Special Packing, Dismantling GreentreeConsulting,and an authority on wind farms- Or Reassembly Required.relatedsupplychains,who wasaconsultingengineer on the Lake Erie project and who co-produced a study on opportunities there for Amer-icansuppliers.ButIcant makeapredictiononeway or the other, with all the stuff that has gone on.G reatL akesW indP oWer : t ryinG to beM oret hanana fterthouGhtThisisastoryoflost chances for not just developers, but also North American man-ufacturers, ports, and logistics providers.Itsenormouslyfrustrat-ingbecauseofthe[clean energy] opportunity that one seesandthebenefitslong-terminsupplychainsand good jobs, said John Kour-toff, CEO of Trillium Power WindCorp.,thedeveloper of that Lake Ontario project and unquestionably the most ambitious of all lakes-related winds farm proponents.Oceanicoffshorewind powerdevelopmentisgen-erating more and more posi-tivevibes.Developmentis rampinguprapidlyonthe EasternUSseaboard,with ambitious plans as well for theWe Know How To Handle Your Breakbulk Cargo!West Coast. Theres a growing realizationamongAmerican governmentofficials,energy companies and environmental advocatesalikethatoffshoreA Grimaldi Group Companywindpowercanhelppropel thetransformationtorenew-able energy. With it will come'