Oooh, wasn’t there some more welcome news on the Green grifting front yesterday.
Back in January, even as Trump had already expressed his opposition to renewable energy in general and his disgust with the wind industry in particular, Governor Kathy Hochul of New York, in concert with the Biden administration’s last minute dash to shove big Green grifting bucks and project approvals out the door, gave their final blessing to something called ‘Empire Wind.’
On an 80,000-acre (125 sq mi) lease 15 miles southeast of Long Island, Norwegian energy company Equinor was going to drop the first offshore wind farm connected directly to the Big Apple’s grid. All for for the bargain price of $3B.
What was not a bargain were the rates the company locked in with the state of NY before a single survey had been done – they were going to be twice the national…
