Woman, child, tortoise, cat rescued from sailboat offshore Hawaii
The US Coast Guard and Navy rescued a woman, her daughter, and their pet cat and turtle from a yacht that was caught in bad weather about 925 miles off the coast of Hawaii. According to a Coast Guard news release, watchers at the Joint Rescue Coordination Center (JRCC) in Honolulu received a distress alert […]
Biden-Subsidized Offshore Wind Developer Reports Massive Losses In Latest Blow To Industry
The Danish renewable energy group posted a huge impairment loss on Thursday in its first-half 2024 results after postponing the launch of one of its US offshore wind projects. Orsted estimates that asset values will decline by $472 million in the first half of 2024, driven primarily by delays to the onshore substation for its […]
California regulators step up support for offshore wind
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on Friday stepped up its support for offshore wind power with a proposal to fund the procurement of up to 7.6 gigawatts. ofsuggestionIt recommended that three rounds of offshore wind projects be solicited starting in 2027, with power expected to start being delivered in 2035, 2036 and 2037. In […]
‘Bunch Of Suits Trying To Cover Their Tracks’: Beach Town Locals Slam Offshore Wind Developer For Polluting Shores
Residents of Nantucket, Massachusetts, spoke out against wind power companies at a town hall on Wednesday. A “turbine blade failure incident” has caused debris to wash up along the shoreline. Staff of The small island town, located 30 miles off the coast of Cape Cod, was forced to close beaches on its south shore on […]
Shark devours seal just offshore from popular vacation spot in gruesome video
Shocking footage showed a shark attacking a seal just feet from the shore of Nantucket on Sunday, turning the water red with blood and causing authorities to ban swimming for the rest of the afternoon. Amazing video of the attack, Acquired by Nantucket CurrentThe fins can be seen thrashing about violently in the water just […]
Julian Assange’s Jet Arrives in Bangkok, On Way to Offshore U.S. Court
Julian Assange was released from a maximum security British prison on Monday morning and is now travelling to the Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory in the northwest Pacific, to enter into a plea deal with the US Department of Justice (DOJ). WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was released by British authorities on Monday as part […]
Conservative groups cleared to continue legal fight to protect whales from Biden-backed offshore wind farm
A federal court has ruled that a coalition of conservative groups has the right to continue fighting the Biden administration’s wind power project in Virginia. However, U.S. District Judge Lauren L. Alikhan of the District of Columbia, a Biden appointee, denied the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction to halt construction of an offshore wind […]
Review allows Gulf of Maine offshore wind research lease to proceed
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has completed an environmental review that will allow a wind power study lease offshore the Gulf of Maine to move forward with further work, including a power purchase agreement, officials announced Tuesday. Maine is proposing to place 12 offshore wind turbines producing 144 megawatts of electricity on a floating […]
NJ to receive $125M payout in dispute over cancelled offshore wind farms
Danish wind farm developer Orsted will pay $125 million to the state of New Jersey to settle a lawsuit over the company’s halting construction of two offshore wind farms last year — just over a third of what the company was previously required to pay. The state of New Jersey and Orsted Corp. have settled […]
Offshore Wind Is Neither Clean, Nor Green And Doesn’t Cut CO2 Emissions
America is preparing to spend trillions of taxpayer and ratepayer dollars to install thousands of offshore wind turbines – for illusory benefits. Advocates claim offshore wind energy is clean and sustainable. Wind itself certainly is, but that doesn’t mean getting energy from wind is. Relying on the wind just to provide electricity to power New […]