A $5 billion green energy project is being promoted Biden administration And Democrats were in a hurry and relied on false science, which could have serious negative environmental consequences, new research found.
The Empire Wind Project, developed by energy company “Equiner” and scheduled to see the construction of 147 marine wind turbines off the coast of New York and New Jersey, was stopped by the Trump Trump Bureau in a move announced this week.
The project is estimated to cost a total of $5 billion and was developed under contract with the New York State Energy Research and Development Agency.
Wednesday, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgham The project will continue to halt until “more reviews of information suggesting that the Biden administration has run through approval without adequate analysis.”
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The $5 billion green energy project touted by the Biden administration and Democrats was in a hurry and relied on false science, which could have serious negative environmental impacts, new research has found. (Gettty Images John Moore/Getty Images)
A review by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is Trump administration Concerns.
The agency discovered that the Imperial wind approval process was rushed, reliant on outdated, incomplete scientific and environmental analysis, and project leaders made decisions that were not based on the best available information.
“The existing compensation mechanisms are lacking due to insufficient monitoring plans to assess the impact of projects on fisheries and habitat resources and flawed scientific methodologies.” NOAA said.
Ultimately, these flaws “limited our ability to avoid and minimize conflicts between development and marine resources at both stages.”
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The Wind Turbine at Block Island Wind Farm was a tower above the surface off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island, on October 14, 2016. (Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images)
As a result, several delicate habitats, spawning sites and commercial and recreational fishing areas of important areas were included in wind farms.
“The key areas supporting commercial and recreational fisheries have not been excluded from leases, and the proposal highlighting the maximum development scenario further limits opportunities to reduce impacts on fisheries and critical habitats,” the NOAA study found.
In total, about 139 acres of seabed were permanently altered by wind turbine generators and equipment, and the installation of submarine cables connecting the turbines to the land changed an additional 1,554 acres.
Furthermore, the project did not consider new information regarding the impact of adverse effects on other marine farms. Catastrophic turbine blade failure It occurred in 2024 at another Biden wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts, causing persistent fish killing issues related to the offshore wind project on the Virginia coast.
Most of the first green energy projects the Biden administration boasts about now lying in abandoned, polluting parts of America’s beautiful seas and coasts in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Despite these concerns, New York Governor Kathy HokulDemocrats vowed to fight the Trump administration’s decision to suspend the project.
After Burgum announced the project was halting, Hochul denounced the decision, saying, “Protected Permission. Shovels on the ground. 1,000 union members earn their salaries. Now the federal government wants to kill the empire’s wind power one.
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Hochul vowed to “fight them at every stage of the road.”
A statement from Equiner on Thursday said the empire is complying with the government’s order to halt construction, but “we are involved with relevant authorities to clarify the issue and are considering legal relief, including sueing the order.”
