In honor of Hurricane Francine, now making her slow and steady way up the Mississippi River and deluging everything in her path, I thought I’d revisit some of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s most recent frustrations on the federal government’s march to destroying our offshore waters.
While the Biden administration’s big plans for windfarms up and down each coast have met with mixed success – some spectacular lease sales, some cancellations for lack of interest, and some approved project flops of epic proportions – it’s not for lack of the government trying to make life easy for wind developers to bite, to begin with.
Lease attractiveness has no doubt been helped by the bureau’s blessing of most of the sites as being ideal for wind development with minimal environmental impacts. Always helps when you can grease your own skids.
Take the big push to dump turbines in the Gulf…
