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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 immature technology with a large number of proposed...

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...

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 it ever...

Over 25 years, New York ratepayers will be paying about $13 billion for alleged benefits of $6 billion.

Today, operational offshore wind capacity is less than 50 megawatts versus the Biden-Harris Administration goal of 30,000 MW by 2030.

The draft Environmental Assessment simply ignores this enormous threat.

Constraint in project impact should be the order of the day.

The Biden Administration has recently produced a wave of plans and regulatory actions aimed at building a monstrous amount of destructive offshore wind...

Materials, costs and survivability for wind turbines on massive floating platforms defy reality

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? Seriously?

If hypocrisy were combustible, we’d be paying $1 per gallon at the pump.

...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 Environmental Policy...

Of course these admissions are well hidden, buried in the depths of thousand page documents

But the sonar blasting is very likely killing a lot of whales indirectly by inducing things like deafness and deadly behavior.

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 critters.