Wind costs 9.08 cents to produce power for 42% of the time. Natural Gas, combined cycle 3.5 to 3.8 per kilowatt hour, 100% on-demand base load power. To build? Wind $1.3 bil. Nat Gas $300 mil. Why wind again?
NEW: @Interior just gave its final green light to @RevWind's offshore construction, marking another milestone toward completing this project and advancing our clean energy future.
Revolution Wind will not only power homes, but also create good-paying jobs here in Rhode Island.
“We will not allow our names to be connected in any way to Council approvals now amounting to wholesale ocean destruction,” wrote board members Lanny Dellinger, Christopher Brown, Michael Marchetti, Greg Mataronas, Chris Lee, Brian Thibeault, Meghan Lapp, and Richard Hittinger.
“In a strongly worded letter calling the process “political theater,” the nine members of the Rhode Island Fishermen’s Advisory Board (FAB) resigned en masse on Friday, refusing to work any longer with the state’s coastal regulating agency considering offshore wind projects.”
All 9 members of an advisory panel resign in protest against the 'wholesale ocean destruction.' This is a dangerous move against Rhode Island fisheries. @SenWhitehouse and @SenJackReed support Biden's construction plan (of course they do). Great article by @KuffnerAlex@projo Rhode Islanders, PAY ATTENTION!
“I think Rhode Island seriously needs to rethink, does it want to be the Ocean State," asked Meghan Lapp, a member of FAB, "Or do you want to be the Windmill State?"
#OffshoreWind#KillerWind#Fisherman
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I hate it. They do the same to all contractors. Windmills are useless killing machines. You would need to Buy 6 countries the size of ours. Filled with turbines. Which use diesel to start the processes. Would only generate enough power for 1 hour for the entire US main land.
The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Advisory Board has resigned en masse, refusing to work any longer with the state’s coastal regulating agency considering offshore wind projects. https://t.co/MzUe1JEfYL
PROVIDENCE – All the members of the panel that advises state coastal regulators on the impacts of offshore wind on fisheries have resigned in protest of what they charge is a process that unfairly favors developers
https://t.co/klJli3FRYY
“We as members of the FAB thought that the purpose of FAB/CRMC review was to ensure that offshore wind projects conformed to the requirements and restrictions of the Ocean SAMP. We were wrong. The Ocean SAMP process has been reduced to mere political theater”