For Immediate Release:
February 12, Washington D.C. – The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, along with 10 other “Stop Offshore Wind” organizations and over 50 individuals from beach communities, joined forces to send a letter today to Secretary of Interior Douglas Burgum urging him to cease immediately all construction projects that are still slated to proceed ahead, despite President Trump’s executive order halting offshore wind.
“The Trump EO pretty much grounded some 22 projects to a standstill,” noted CFACT President Craig Rucker, “but there are around nine or so sites that are still putting the pedal to the metal trying to get their construction work done before they’re looked at with scrutiny. We need to make sure, for the sake of our environment, that doesn’t happen.”
President Trump released a moratorium on offshore wind upon taking office on January 20, that “temporarily prevents consideration of any area in the OCS for any new or renewed wind energy leasing for the purposes of generation of electricity or any other such use, derived from the use of wind.” It also calls on the Department of Interior to “conduct a comprehensive review of the ecological, economic, and environmental necessity of terminating or amending any existing wind energy leases.”
“While this is a great development, and I’m sure the President believed it would stymie ongoing construction, some companies such as Dominion Energy in Virginia are not giving it any respect and keep plowing ahead as though it was never issued. That’s why we need DOI to go further and yank the existing takings permits, called Letters of Authorization (LOAs), to keep them from continuing to ‘clang and bang’ in our oceans,” notes Rucker.
The joint letter, which is attached, was signed by a number of citizens, environmental and national organizations involved in opposition to offshore wind, including the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), Defend our Beaches NJ, Heartland Institute, Caesar Rodney Institute, Green Oceans, REACT Alliance, and others.
Read the full letter to Secretary Burgum here
Save the Whales! And a bunch of birds. Offshore wind is useless and destructive.
As previously stated on yesterday’s similar post, the group on the ground in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, passed on the letter and is concerned about the stranded costs on ratepayers, plus other costs cancellation would trigger. Yesterday I got an email from a law professor noting that he believes Dominion and some of the other companies would have a claim against the government as this would be a “taking.” I still think that focusing on the many projects still in the application pool, as the Executive Order did, has a strong legal foundation and if successful will represent great progress.
“prevents consideration of any area in the OCS for any new or renewed wind energy leasing for the purposes of generation of electricity or any other such use, derived from the use of wind.”
Does that mean you can’t use a sail boat there?
Stop offshore wind!”
And ban onshore guff.
“The ever-diligent EU has brewed up yet another baffling regulation—this time declaring caffeine “harmful to humans if swallowed” after the European Commission banned its use in pesticides over supposed health risks to people’s hydration, body temperature and anxiety.”
https://order-order.com/2025/02/21/eu-bans-caffeine-in-pesticides-warning-coffee-is-dangerous/
Oh well
But the letter fails to mention the overall economic stupidity of wind turbines (onshore or offshore)? Isn’t that relevant or does that argument rise at other times better suited for the economic considerations?
Petroleum platforms are popular places to fish both from boats and the platforms. Active ones logically not so much. This ought to be interesting in a strange sort of way, especially with floaters. How would you tie your boat up?
Pedal to the metal meet slow walk permit review California style. Just make sure the stall is as long as California used against pipeline expansions to that state, i.e. 50 years.