Senator Susan Collins on Offshore Wind Energy for Maine

Senator Susan Collins discusses how Maine could become "the national center for deep-water, offshore wind energy" in the video above.
On June 5, 2009, Governor John Baldacci, Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins and Representatives Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree met with Energy Secretary Steven Chu at the US Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. to propose a National Deepwater Offshore Wind Research Center to be operated by the University of Maine. Maine's political leaders requested $20 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for the first year of the project, with expectations for additional Congressional....