The community in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, has been a huge supporter of this. They have been pushing for two decades to revitalize maritime industry. They want the community to have industrial jobs, so they’re excited about having these industries come. Uprose, a longstanding community group in Sunset Park, has been at the forefront.
One of the concerns is Sunset Park is what’s known as an environmental-justice community, disproportionately affected by environmental problems over the decades — smokestacks from factories and then the B.Q.E. and all the stuff that gets dumped in a working-class area. Sunset Park wants to see that when the ships come to service the turbines that the ships themselves will be green and not bringing diesel fumes to the area.