Though no offshore wind projects are currently up for review before any local board, the Westport Select Board has named nine residents to the town’s newly formed Offshore Wind Advisory Committee.

The board, which was established in principle in August, was formed at the behest of residents concerned that Westport does not have a voice in, nor means of tracking, the several offshore projects currently under construction south of the islands or making their way through the regulatory pipeline. Select board members appointed nine residents to the committee over its past two meetings; they include:

• Select board chairwoman Shana Teas;

• Planning Board member John Bullard;

• Conservation Commission member Jake McGuigan;

• Shellfish Advisory Board member Rick Smith;

• Maury May of the Economic Development Task Force;

• At-large members Christopher Thrasher, Bill Sheahan, and Constance Gee, of the private group POWW (Preserve our Westport Waters).

• And Joop Nattegaal, representing the Westport River Watershed Alliance.

The committee has no regulatory authority but reports to the select board and is non-partisan in nature. It was formed as Westport continues to eye a project that could bring transmission cables from a proposed offshore site up Route 88, from a possible landing at Horseneck Beach.

Along with New London, Ct., a Westport route is one of two potential landing sites included in a 2,600-megawatt Vineyard Wind proposal currently under review by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

If the Westport route comes to pass, the lines from the site south of Nantucket would come ashore at Horseneck and would be routed under a portion of the Westport River and up the Route 88 corridor to points north.

Company officials have said that the Westport route is not its preferred path for the cables, but some, including Gee, have raised concerns that not having a committee hampers the town as the public is not always privy to company and internal town communications on the matter.

In discussions on the formation of the board over the summer, Teas said that Westport would be well-served by a committee keeping watch over projects planned for these waters.

“I know that there are some people who want Westport to say, ‘We do not want wind under any circumstance,’ and there’s some (who say) ‘Yes, we embrace wind in all its ways, shapes and forms,’” she said. “It’s my opinion that Westport doesn’t need to take a specific position, but that we should be monitoring all of these things and looking out for the interest of Westport.”