Nothing like building in areas that are prone to tropical systems, winds that exceed wind turbine thresholds, and noreaster’s, eh?
Trump admin cancels $679M for offshore wind projects, including 2 in Hampton Roads
The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry.
Funding for projects in 11 states was rescinded, including $435 million for a floating wind farm in Northern California and $47 million to boost an offshore wind project in Maryland that the Interior Department has pledged to cancel.
“Wasteful, wind projects are using resources that could otherwise go towards revitalizing America’s maritime industry,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement. “Thanks to President Trump, we are prioritizing real infrastructure improvements over fantasy wind projects that cost much and offer little.” (snip)
Separately, Trump’s Energy Department said Friday it is withdrawing a $716 million loan guarantee approved by the Biden administration to upgrade and expand transmission infrastructure to accommodate a now-threatened offshore wind project in New Jersey. (snip)
The cut includes $39.3 million for the Fairwinds Landing offshore wind and maritime logistics hub at the former Lambert’s Point Docks in Norfolk and another $20 million for improvements at Portsmouth Marine Terminal, which is a staging area for Dominion Energy’s under-construction wind farm off the shore of Virginia Beach.
A million here, a million there, pretty soon you have some real money!
I wonder how much they were going to make off of this? If they want it they can raise the $39.3 million, right? Of course, they and the Biden admin completely and utter blew off the local residents who were dead set against this project, as well as shortcutting environmental impact statements, especially as they apply to whales. Ed Markey is also whining. How much did he stand to make off these projects?
“It’s an attack on our jobs,” Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee said of the move to stop construction of Revolution Wind. “It’s an attack on our energy. It’s an attack on our families and their ability to pay the bills.”
Patrick Crowley, president of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO, said his union is “going to fight (Trump) every step of the way, no matter how long it takes.”
So, why doesn’t Rhode Island pay for it? How about the RI AFL-CIO raise the money?
The trumpster and his low IQ band of MAGAts are pro-pollution. Why? Ask yourselves how much, millions if not billions, that trump Inc and their confederate plutocrats receive from polluters.
Go on…
Shall we continue?
11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
And that’s putting it mildly.
A few more from Autopen…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-5-worst-green-energy-projects-funded-by-biden/ar-AA1GekCh
And yet, here you are, still breathing out carbon dioxide, which you believe is the worst pollutant of them all.
Yup, you’re polluting the planet with your breathing, and you don’t care.
You’re known by your ignorance. No, CO2 is not the worst pollutant of them all. Why would you claim that?
Are you really claiming that human metabolism is responsible for the 50% increase in atmospheric CO2? That’s ignorant even for a MAGAt. You can’t be serious!! LOL.
Have you ever asked yourself where the CO2 exhaled from animals comes from? Animals eat vegetation and other animals that eat vegetation. The biomolecules in the consumed plants and animals are primarily carbohydrates, lipids and proteins made up carbon chains metabolized to CO2, H2O and energy! Of course, that CO2 trapped in food (plants and animals) hasn’t been there for very long. It’s turned over quite rapidly so that the CO2 absorbed by the plants is essentially equal to that produced by the animals – therefore no net increase in CO2! You can relax and eat!
On the other hand, fossil fuel CO2 has been trapped as long-chain hydrocarbons for hundreds of millions of years and have been rapidly released in great quantities by burning, increasing atmospheric CO2.
I’m always amazed by the ignorance of right-wingers, compounded by their cocksure manner (i.e., Dunning-Kruger Effect).
Fat dumb Jeff,
BULLSHIT.
Good. Now, give a healthy chunka change to the J-6ers, use the rest to help pay down the debt.