Trump Delay Casts Doubt on First Major U.S. Offshore Wind Farm

[modrepub]

Source: Bloomburg

The Trump administration cast the fate of the nation’s first major offshore wind farm into doubt by extending an environmental review for the $2.8 billion Vineyard Wind project off Massachusetts.

The Interior Department has ordered an additional study of the farm, proposed by Avangrid Inc. and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said in an interview with Bloomberg News Friday. The project, which has drawn opposition from fishermen and coastal communities, had been scheduled to be operational by early 2022. The developers have warned that regulatory delays could put it in jeopardy.

Bernhardt said it’s crucial the impacts be thoroughly studied. “For offshore wind to thrive on the outer continental shelf, the federal government has to dot their I’s and cross their T’s,” he said.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/federal-delay-casts-doubt-first-191544602.html

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This is a huge deal. There are 3 wind farms working their way through the federal and state permitting process off MA. These will be competing with natural gas combined cycle plants currently being permitted and built in the MidAtlantic region. If these plants get in first and can send power into New England before the wind farms are fully operational the off-shore wind farms may never get built.

[marble falls]

1. Pretty ironic of the "administration" to use environmental concerns to sink a ...

wind farm.

[riversedge]

5. It is right up their alley--the @WH uses what is available.

[machoneman]

9. Yeah, it's crucial to delay and get it right...while big coal and big...

petroleum get permits at the drop of a hat, even in protected sanctuaries. Whose kidding whom?

[tclambert]

10. He said they were gonna wash the coal to make it clean.

Of course he wants to use government regulations to interfere with the windmill industry. He's trying to save us from a cancer epidemic.

[Eugene]

2. If they wanted to drill for oil there, Trump would support them with all his might.

[Historic NY]

3. He has a bias against them since the case he lost in Scotland

[link:https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-47400641|]

[link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hates-windmills-and-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-his-bogus-cancer-claims|]

[elleng]

6. AHA!

[SCantiGOP]

11. Does he know that Ted Kennedy opposed this?

He would fast track it if we could convince him that the whole thing was an Obama idea.

[Bayard]

4. Add this to the list

Things our new prez will have to move on quickly.

[not_the_one]

7. This will wipe out that area's fishing industry...

NOBODY wants to eat fish that have cancer.

[mpcamb]

12. Fishing got better on Block Island after they put in 6 wind generators.

Same worries, same claims. Wasn't true.
Block used to have enormously expensive electric, sourced from on shore fossil fuel on a 10 mile cable.
Now they have excess most days and send it the other way from the off-shore source. Cheap rates too.

[Grampa Joe Heck]

8. As usual the Orange Man make no sense

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You would think that the Vineyard project being vehemently oppose by the wealthy mostly liberal elite on Martha's Vineyard would have prompted him to fast track the approval.
Just to spite them.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/mar/2/20060302-124537-9804r/

http://www.greenwichneighborsunited.com/2b-wind-farm-project-off-marthas-vineyard-gets-green-light-caution-liberals-at-work/

[keithbvadu2]

13. Tell him they are coal powered.

Tell him they are coal powered.