John Droz writes:
The developer for the large proposed offshore Cape Wind project officially threw in the towel. This story has yet to be picked up by major media outlets, but this excellent news is the direct result of some fifteen (15±) years of hard work, dedication and financial donations by a lot of good people.
Energy Management Inc. has ceased efforts to build what was once expected to become the first offshore wind farm in the U.S., according to an emailed statement from Chief Executive Officer Jim Gordon. The project’s Boston-based developer has already notified the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management that it has terminated the offshore wind development lease it received in 2010.Cape Wind suffered a slow death. Efforts to develop the 468-megawatt offshore farm, proposed to supply power to Cape Cod and the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, began in 2001 but came up against relentless opposition from a mix of strange bedfellows including the Kennedy family and billionaire industrialist William Koch. While Energy Management won several court battles, the project couldn’t survive the 2015 cancellation of contracts to sell its power to local utilities.
Kudos to our friends at Save Our Sound who led this fight. Hopefully by the time the Newsletter comes out there will be a detailed, accurate account about this interesting saga — which I’ll then pass on. We believe that much of what was learned here can be applied to other wind projects, onshore and offshore.
Don’t let your guard down!
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/cape_wind_opposed_by_bill_koch.html says in small part:
Maybe the best way to put an end to this nonsense is for the Feds to withdraw any and all subsidies for energy projects regardless of their nature.
Obama (Snipped) MOD
http://amp.dailycaller.com/2017/12/03/obama-complains-about-trumps-move-to-remove-us-from-paris-deal/
I get a good laugh when I hear Obama whining about how Trump is undoing Obama’s “legacy”.
Obama is currently out making a big world tour. I guess he thinks he is still relevant. You’re not, Barack. You are yesterday’s news. Unless the Trump administration indicts you for some of your illegal activities. Then you’ll be frontpage new again. Hope to see you and others in your former administration in the news and in lots of legal trouble.
I’m with Rhoda R!
So these wealthy hypocrites have succeeded in stopping a wind farm in their own backyard, but still want the rest of us to have them in our backyards. Isn’t that right? I fail to see why that is a victory.
Was the backwash from the turbines going to interfere with the millionares yachts?
Huzzah! Score one for environmental and visual justice!
Progress!!!!! But still no progress on saving clear cut forests from the wood pellet mantra of the UK.
The sooner we leave the Paris Agreement the better. Drax will probably be unable to carry on burning wood pellets as it gobbles up all America’s forests. We need to think again.
We need to get live video cams in the woods showing the clear cutting, the chainsaws, the diesel trucks hauling the wood and pellets, the ports loading and unloading the pellets, ships in transit, and the smoke at Drax. None of these pellets go to any local power plants near the clear cut zones.
Lucky Americans. Britain’s coast is littered with these ghastly things which kill millions of birds, bats, etc. while solar kills all their food by frying them.
Did you attract any protesters from the Kool-Aid addicts?
As a fan of folk music (but of the conservative political persuasion), I have to grit my teeth when the between song patter gets political (and this was years ago, can’t image how bad it has grown in the last year).
Was once listening to a British a capella group called “Artisan” and one singer went on about how we needed more wind power…but keep them off his “beautiful moors…”.
Oh, and the concert was in Canso, Nova Scotia, home of a fish processing plant. In typical politically correct blindness, the same guy went on about how terrible it was to harvest fish and process them.
For some reason, they weren’t invited back.
Trump terminated CAGW so this is going to be part of the great decline and dismantling of this embarrassing piece of history. George Santayana’s observation that society, politics, culture, art and history are organically connected, each reflecting the other, seems borne out with CAGW on the ropes, the corrupted Democratic Party in free-fall, not saving themselves by having a realistic retrospective on ‘what (obviously) happened’, Brexit, the innumerable harrassers and авцsегs now being outed on the left after a political strategy of digging such up stuff on a few right wingers (Left entitlement to rule is only part of the cult of entitlement and I suspect a landslide of this creepy behavior to come to light).
Unless their is a few clear eyed Dems left to ‘right’ the ship they are out of power for a generation or two. No one is ‘with her’ now and indeed the Clintons have been thrown under the bus by their former admirerers. The ‘foundation’ is dead, too – keep an eye on how they run the assets down!
Oh, and the dreaded Pause may soon be back! This will be a final curtain for the crippled globe gov renewables industry. Click on the graphic for an updated graph of ENSO:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/monitoring/nino3_4.png
I don’t align myself with any political party. I don’t share your optimism. I don’t think Trump will get a second term, the Dems will gain power again, and all the stuff Trump is dismantling will just be put back in place again.
Maybe they can keep the artist rendition for the feel good types and the rest can save their money to pay taxes in the northeast now that their big fat tax deduction is gone.
FYI, I saw an AP story (I believe) on this in a major and very left-wing liberal Marxist-Leninist newspaper a day before this thread appeared. Hard to believe, but true.
I read where Elon Musk is proposing to use his new “heavy-lift” launch vehicle to put his personal red Tesla in orbit around Mars. A red Tesla for Red Mars, Musk says.
Here’s a link to the “Red Tesla for Red Mars” article:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/12/with-bowie-playing-on-the-radio-elon-musk-plans-to-launch-his-tesla-to-mars/
N. Tesla was also a showman for investors like JP Morgan until the end times came on the bank balance.
“Molten salt reactors are a viable technology.”
Maybe! There are lots of viable technologies.
That is not the point. It is the chorus of people with no experience making absurd claims.
For example, safety. It is a not a contest. Every reactor has to meet safety criteria.
My real reactors have a perfect safety record as you would expect since it meet safety criteria. Your calculation based on your model is not validated by experience.
I don’t think we should gloat at the closure of a large industrial project even if it is offshore wind.
For a lot of workers and families this will bring economic uncertainty just before Christmas.
There is an important (if not dominant) place in the energy mix for renewables whatever one’s view on carbon dioxide.
As with nuclear, one of it’s spin-offs is a range of problem-solving technology advances.
Such as in heavy duty gearing mechanisms, materials and intelligent grid management.
One should try to be rational and not merely tribalistic in addressing such questions.
(While recognising the scurrilous tactics of many in the CAGW pro-renewables camp.)