The Biden administration granted major offshore wind projects financial breaks despite internal warnings of increased risks to taxpayers, according to documents obtained by the watchdog group Functional Government Initiative (FGI).
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When the Wind Stops Blowing: Trump Administration Restores Sanity to Offshore Energy Policy
And if the wind doesn’t blow quite so favorably for offshore wind’s rent-seekers in the future, well, maybe that’s just the way the wind ought to blow.
DOT asked to terminate illegal floating wind grant
I have the honor and pleasure of co-signing a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, asking him to terminate a half billion dollar grant made by the…
Offshore Wind: GAO Report Reveals the Fallout of Biden’s Green Industrial Gamble
This was not just a mismanaged rollout. It was an ideologically driven industrial policy masquerading as science-based planning. That story is now written in steel towers in the sea—and in…
CFACT Comments on the California Offshore Wind Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS)
In summary the so-called California Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement is nothing of the kind. The full Offshore Wind Program needs to be assessed for the entire West Coast before any…
‘Revolving Door’: Biden’s Ocean Energy Chief Went To Work For Major Offshore Wind Company After Admin Boosted Industry
Amanda Lefton, the former director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), went to work for a major offshore wind company after the agency boosted the industry and worked…
The California offshore wind environmental impact statement is full of holes
Note that this is the first one for floating wind turbines which is very different from the fixed turbines being built along the Atlantic coast. Floating wind is still an…
BOEM Finally Acknowledges the Harm Caused by Offshore Wind Farms
In a surprising yet overdue move, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has released its Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for the New York Bight. This document, despite…
Maine’s massive “floating wind” folly — my report
Extrapolating today’s small-scale facility cost would make the price tag for this project around $100 billion. That could rise significantly once large scale, hurricane-proof technology is developed and adopted, if…
Offshore Trojan Horses
Over 25 years, New York ratepayers will be paying about $13 billion for alleged benefits of $6 billion.
U.S. Offshore Wind: The Struggle Continues
Today, operational offshore wind capacity is less than 50 megawatts versus the Biden-Harris Administration goal of 30,000 MW by 2030.
Feds say “damn the whales” in the Gulf of Maine
The draft Environmental Assessment simply ignores this enormous threat.
Offshore Wind Cumulative Impact Issue Analysis
Constraint in project impact should be the order of the day.
Offshore wind is gearing up to bulldoze the ocean
The Biden Administration has recently produced a wave of plans and regulatory actions aimed at building a monstrous amount of destructive offshore wind. No environmental impact assessment is included.
Can ‘clean energy’ schemes get any crazier?
Materials, costs and survivability for wind turbines on massive floating platforms defy reality
Dominion Energy’s absurd reply to CFACT’s whale protection lawsuit
This central claim by Dominion is simply absurd: “The overwhelming consensus of federal agencies and scientific organizations is that offshore wind does not adversely impact marine life.” No adverse impact?…
New Mapping Adds 1,000,000 Sq Km to US
Guest “This would be cool if the new territory was actually open for business,” by David Middleton Extended Continental Shelf (ECS)? Being an “old school” geologist, the phrase, “Extended Continental…
Energy Lease Hypocrisy: Biden Uses Taxpayer Protections to Prop Up Wind, Gut Oil
If hypocrisy were combustible, we’d be paying $1 per gallon at the pump.
Putting a Fork in South Fork Wind
…is about the failure of BOEM (Bureau of Ocean Energy Management), to uphold legal principles of environmental review and oversight, water quality assurance, due process, and compliance with the National…
Feds admit offshore wind can kill whales!
Of course these admissions are well hidden, buried in the depths of thousand page documents
Whale Death Confusion Abounds and Some Is Deliberate
But the sonar blasting is very likely killing a lot of whales indirectly by inducing things like deafness and deadly behavior.
Offshore wind (whale) impact probe proposed
In the crosshairs are the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which does the environmental impact assessments, and NOAA Fisheries which is supposed to protect the whales and other sea…
Feds push ignorance defense for whale killing by offshore wind development
We know nothing about it so it must not be happening.
The Texas Offshore Wind Fable
Guest “Not even wrong!” by David Middleton Offshore wind farm proposed for Gulf of Mexico near Galveston could power 2.3 million homesTwo proposed wind farms off the Texas and Louisiana…
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