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Win For CFACT As Trump Halts All Significant Offshore Wind Projects

December 23, 2025 by

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By Craig Rucker ~ Santa brought CFACT’s present early when he chucked a massive lump of coal smack-dab into Dominion Energy’s stocking. The Trump Administration announced today that it is halting all construction of significant offshore wind projects including Vineyard Wind 1, Revolution Wind, Sunrise Wind, Empire Wind 1, and Dominion’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind.The Virginia […]

Monitoring Offshore Wind Impacts Needs To Be Done Right

December 10, 2025 by

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By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ NOAA recently took comments on a lengthy draft document that they termed “regional monitoring standards for evaluating the effects of fixed-foundation offshore wind development.” A group of experts on the impact of U.S. offshore wind projects blasted it as not just bad, but not even being standards.The comments are long and technical. Here […]

DOT Asked To Terminate Illegal Floating Wind Grant

June 11, 2025 by

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By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ I have the honor and pleasure of co-signing a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, asking him to terminate a half billion dollar grant made by the Biden administration to the West Coast wind industry. The short story is the grant was illegal.The longer story is interesting because it takes […]

Showdown Looms For Empire Wind

June 3, 2025 by

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By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Empire Wind is a big New York offshore wind project that is ready to start construction. The Trump administration stopped it about a month ago but has now unstopped it, supposedly after the President made an informal deal with Governor Hochul to lift New York’s ban on new gas pipelines from Pennsylvania.Empire is […]

Deficiencies In Dominion’s Offshore Wind Permits

February 4, 2025 by

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By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ “In light of various alleged legal deficiencies underlying the federal government’s leasing and permitting of onshore and offshore wind projects, the consequences of which may lead to grave harm…” is the conclusion that guided President Trump’s Executive Order suspending wind project permitting.CFACT has already criticized several offshore wind permitting cases for being inadequate […]

Confusion Grows Over Offshore Wind Controls

January 25, 2025 by

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By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Bringing offshore wind under control will be a complex process under administrative law, which few people know much about. As a result there is likely to be a lot of confusion and misunderstanding. Some of this will be seriously funny.A fine example, actually several, occurred during the Senate confirmation hearing for Governor Doug […]

Problems For Offshore Wind In Australia

December 12, 2024 by

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By Anton Lang ~ Offshore Wind Generation is one of the recent directions being looked at here in Australia as the mad rush to renewable power gathers even more steam. Offshore wind is being touted as another way to go when it comes to Industrial renewable power plants here in Australia, as more and more […]

The California Offshore Wind Environmental Impact Statement Is Full Of Holes

December 3, 2024 by

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By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ BOEM is taking comments on a draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for its five floating wind offshore leases off the California coast. I am doing research prior to commenting and this is my first report which other commenters might find useful.The comment deadline is February 12 so the final EIS will be […]

Looming ‘Clean’ Energy Disasters Off Our Coasts

September 3, 2024 by

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By Paul Driessen ~ Photos of oil-covered seals and birds from California’s 1969 Santa Barbara blowout helped launch the environmental and stop-oil movements.More recently, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon drillship disaster killed eleven workers and blasted 3-4 million barrels of oil and enormous amounts of natural gas into the Gulf of Mexico. These accidents spurred industry […]