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Tag: Offshore Wind
Offshore wind construction is ignoring President Trump
Overall it looks like the offshore wind construction projects are simply ignoring the Federal investigation into their legitimacy. Even under Biden the federal leasing agency made it clear that a…
Germany’s First Offshore Wind Farm To Be Dismantled After Just 15 Years Of Operation
The Alpha Ventus offshore wind farm near German North Sea island of Borkum is set to be dismantled after being in operation for only 15 years. It has become too…
Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Pause
When your friends think you wrong and your opponents are saying nice things, a reevaluation of your position might be in order. Did it. It was still correct for the…
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…
Deficiencies in Dominion’s offshore wind permits
CFACT has already criticized several offshore wind permitting cases for being inadequate due to the omission of important issues, making them incomplete. Some of the worst cases are listed below.…
‘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…
Confusion grows over offshore wind controls
Bringing offshore wind under control will be a complex process under administrative law, which few people know much about. As a result there is likely to be a lot of…
Western offshore wind EIS is MIA
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…
NOAA’s “no evidence” that wind kills whales violates the Information Quality Act
NOAA’s blatant violation of the Information Quality Act by ignoring the evidence that wind development is killing whales needs to be investigated and corrected.
Is Wind Power Cheaper Than Gas?
Even then wind power costs are understated, because we should add on the cost of grid upgrades, projected at over £100 billion, or at least the appropriate share for the…
New York On the March to Climate Utopia
So here we are, suspended up in the air, and nobody seems to realize that we will shortly crash to earth. Everybody involved is trying to milk the last dollars…
My 41 wind-threatens-whales articles track federal deception
A New Years’s retrospective. Many of these 41 CFACT articles were sent to key NOAA whale protection people when published over a period of 2.5 years. All have been carefully…
Nobody Wants To Build Wind Farms In The North Sea
If wind power was so cheap, you would think they would be queuing up to build them:
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…
‘It’s Gonna End on Day One’: GOP Lawmakers, Fishermen Urge Trump to Keep Promise to Axe Offshore Wind
“The incoming administration has an historic opportunity to save American workers from foreign developers, reinvigorate iconic coastal towns, and improve America’s food security,” NEFSA CEO Jerry Leeman said in a…
New Report Suggests “Whale Psychiatrist” Trump May be Right About Wind Farms and Whales
“They say the wind drives them mad. It’s a vibration issue because those structures are as tall as 50-story buildings… The wind is howling, objects are moving, creating vibrations and…
Greens Detest ‘Little Guys’ Who Get in Their Way
Environmentalists insist they love “little guys.” At least in the abstract, until those folks get in the way, raise inconvenient questions, or try to block “renewable energy” projects intended to…
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…
Offshore wind’s bogus benefits bragged on
The analysis is fairly simple which makes it easy to see the fallacies. There are just four basic benefit claims. And of course it is all based on highly questionable…
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