Crowley Questions Mount for Harbor District
By
Thadeus Greenson
on
September 5, 2023 at 5:03PM
Back in October, as the federal government prepared to auction off two leases to build deep-sea offshore wind farms 20 miles off Humboldt’s coast, the harbor district announced it had entered into an exclusive right to negotiate with Crowley Wind Services, a subsidiary of the multinational maritime giant and Department of Defense contractor, to develop the old pulp mill site on the Samoa Peninsula into a state of the art heavy lift marine terminal. Crowley, it seemed, was drawn to what could be more than a $1 billion project to service the nascent industry, while Humboldt officials were drawn to the company’s track record of completing big projects and industry expertise.