Not the Blues’ backyard!
Nassau County executive Bruce Blakeman is bolstering its campaign against grass green energy, including a scheduled windmill farm off the coast of Long Island and a potential lithium-ion battery storage facility.
“We don’t want the battery storage facility in Nassau, we don’t want wind turbines from Nassau, we don’t want the power lines of these facilities running through Nassau.”
He will be joined by members of our Coast Long Island group.
Blakeman is targeting a massive wind power project in the federal waterway 15 miles from the coast of Long Beach Imperial Wind 1.
President Trump issued an executive order on the first day he blocked or suspended all new wind energy leases in the federal waterway.
However, Norway-based Equiner reported that he had already obtained all the federal leases needed to build 54 giant wind turbines before the ban came into effect, allowing approval from the federal government.
Construction is underway to lay the foundations for the turbine.
The Equiner supplies power by connecting it to the Con Edison electrical grid via cable links from the submarine to the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal substation in Sunset Park.
But Republican Blakeman, a fellow Trump running for the governor next year, claimed that windmills would destroy aquatic life and birds and hurt local fisheries.
“I’m against the Empire Wind Project. Long Island is burdened and there is no profit,” he said.
Blakeman is also aiming for a new lithium-ion battery storage facility. This was born across a large apple due to the rage of locals who feared to inspire toxic hell in residential areas.
Blakeman and his firefighters argue that the lithium battery storage warehouse is a dangerous fire hazard.
“There’s no way to put out these fires. You have to burn them,” Blakeman said.
“An explosion like this could cause the whole neighborhood to burn.”
Under the Climate Act, New York should reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030 and get 100% zero emissions by 2040.
The regulations require New York to generate 9,000 megawatts of offshore wind energy by 2035, 6,000 megawatts of solar energy by 2025, and 3,000 megawatts of energy storage by 2030.
