Posted on 01/02/2022 9:00:32 AM PST by rktman
The latest harpoon to slam the nascent industry hit recently when the Austin-based Texas Public Policy Foundation sued three federal agencies in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. on behalf of several commercial fishing groups. The suit alleges that the permit awarded to the proposed 800-megawatt Vineyard Wind project violates numerous federal laws including the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, and National Environmental Policy Act.
The suit, which will almost certainly result in a long delay to the construction of Vineyard Wind, is the second federal lawsuit filed against the project in the past few months. In August, a group called Nantucket Residents Against Turbines filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and other federal agencies, alleging that the Vineyard Wind project, which will be located about 14 miles south of the island, will harm the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale. There are only about 400 Right Whales left on the planet.
The litigation was filed four months after a study found that the waters south of New England are crucial habitat for the Right Whale. Between 2011 and 2019, some 327 unique Right Whales were spotted in the region. Furthermore, the endangered whales have been sighted in the area south of the Vineyard Wind site every month over the past few years. The study also found consistent use of the area proposed for wind-energy development by a third of the species and nearly a third of breeding females.
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Whale sushi?
Mmmmmmmm! Mantee fingers? Like chicken fingers but better.
Mattha’s Vineyard! The only place they must has windmills!
Let them enjoy what they are forcing on everybody else!
Let’s send a few thousand of Brandon’s illegals to the Vineyard too!
The whales coming to eat the sharks that are coming to eat the seals?
Something not right here.
BTW - don’t these whales CAUSE climate change? /s
Follow the science, as long as it doesn’t offend the plutocrats./ more s/s/s/s/s/s/s
I am not worried about the whales. But Nantucket is one of the most beautiful places in the country and wind turbines are ugly and grotesque industrial equipment. why not put them in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge? Yosemite? The Grand Canyon? Let’s just4 destroy the whole natural landscape with a bunch of metal towers that will be rusting junk in 15 years.
No! Instead they want to cover every ridgeline and hill in my state of Oklahoma with the stupid things.
Let the Coastal Elites enjoy what they have wrought.
No, because...
1) Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge - must protect the habitat of the Elysian skipping polar bears
2) Yosemite - must protect the delicate habitat of the clog bearing centipedes
3) The Grand Canyon - must protect the habitat of the Nurovian leaping frogs.
I hope this clarifies the matter.
For years, the Vineyard was known as the island of the Uber Rich Liberal. Nantucket the Uber Rich Republican, a bit more laid back.
That kind of changed, especially when Kerry married into money with Heinz. They have a big ol’ house right at the entrance to Nantucket Harbor.
I wonder if anyone is going to question Kerry about how he feels about windmills and how they’ll effect his views from his back deck.
The hypocrisy is unparalleled.
This area is kind of flat.
It would not be too bad, if the seas rise few feet!
This project is located due south -on the horizon, will within propagation distances of pertinent frequencies - of 0bama’s soon-to-be-submerged oceanfront Martha’s Vineyard estate.
Absent the irony of it all, I can’t help but wonder if he put the kibosh on it once someone warned him of the infrasound.
Again, this whole thing smacks of delicious irony...other than the incredible waste of taxpayer dollars on both sides of it.
If nothing else, we can sure waste a lot of money tilting at windmills. 😂🙌
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