Hundreds of Local Jobs Vanish as New York Offshore Wind Projects Canceled
People hoping to find work assembling offshore wind turbine engines and blades at the Port of Coeymans in New York are out of luck.
People hoping to find work assembling offshore wind turbine engines and blades at the Port of Coeymans in New York are out of luck.
The construction of a major wind energy project previously touted by the Biden administration as an example of positive “Bidenomics” has been canceled, with developers citing “inflation, interest rates and supply chain disruptions.”
Zero. That was the sum total of new UK offshore wind projects bought by developers at a key government auction Thursday, as renewable energy groups shunned the sector as unviable even with heavy taxpayer subsidies.
New Jersey’s veteran fishing community fears surveying to install offshore wind turbines near the state’s shore is already causing tremendous environmental damage, one local boat captain told Breitbart News, asserting that, in his experience, “dead whales on our beach absolutely and logically have everything to do with the oceanic geo-surveys.”
The Biden administration on Wednesday approved the Orsted A/S’s Ocean Wind 1 project, setting the stage for installation of a massive wind farm in the waters off New Jersey while ignoring the protests of locals who will be forced to share their environment with as many as 98 turbines.