{"id":366851,"date":"2025-02-19T09:58:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T08:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=366851"},"modified":"2025-02-19T09:58:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T08:58:42","slug":"providing-trump-facts-he-needs-on-wind-and-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=366851","title":{"rendered":"Providing Trump facts, he needs on wind and solar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump Administration is hard at work returning sound energy policy to America.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CFACT has been researching and educating policymakers and the public on climate and energy issues for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CFACT scholars are providing Administration officials with the hard facts and policy heft they need to turn our energy economy around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doug Burgum is America\u2019s new Secretary of the Interior.  Take a look at our coalition letter to Secretary Burgum<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Trump\u2019s executive order on wind turbines was a major leap forward, however as always, the devil is in the details.  The EO may leave room for wind profiteers such as Virginia\u2019s Dominion Energy to slip more monstrous turbines through the legal cracks and onto our coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is with a sense of real urgency we are writing to you today.\u201d  We wrote, \u201cwe much appreciate President Trump\u2019s Emergency Order for temporary withdrawal of all areas on the outer continental shelf from offshore wind leasing. We count twenty-two projects that have been paused. However, eleven projects have already received approvals with four of those under construction. Leasing and permitting will be reviewed for these approved projects but may take time\u2026 We recommend the Interior Department work with NMFS to immediately revoke the Letters of Authorization and order an immediate cession of construction until a review is complete.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management {BOEM) is in danger of mindlessly stumbling on with some of Biden\u2019s most ridiculous wind energy policies like a zombie that doesn\u2019t know it\u2019s dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big wind corporations are trying to erect floating wind turbines <\/strong><\/a>off California\u2019s beautiful coast.  CFACT readers and supporters know that we have been relentlessly pointing out the flaws and dangers of this floating folly for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We lay out to a detailed list of reasons<\/strong><\/a> why California\u2019s \u201cprogrammatic environmental impact statement\u201d on California floating wind \u201cis woefully inadequate. In fact it specifically avoids those issues that justify cancelling the Program.\u201d We decisively conclude that, \u201cthe full Offshore Wind Program needs to be assessed for the entire West Coast before any project is approved for construction. This required assessment is missing in action. Based on this assessment the cumulative impacts then have to be minimized. Capping the authorized harassment of each threatened species may be the best way to avoid destructive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years CFACT senior advisor David Wojick has been perhaps America\u2019s number one star on offshore wind turbine analysis.  David Wojick digs deep into the scientific facts and arcane policy documents the government has relied on and spotlights their flaws as does no one else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David\u2019s most recent post at CFACT.org<\/strong><\/a> lays out a simple, extremely daring approach to protect America from the dangers both wind and solar pose for our environment and electric grids.  David proposes<\/strong><\/a> that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) make full use of its unique authority and prevent future hookups of intermittent \/ unreliable energy sources such as wind and solar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Places such as Europe and Australia have wasted vast sums on wind and solar and have nothing positive to show for it.  They have transformed places of natural beauty into sterile wind and solar deserts while radically raising the costs of energy for business and homeowners.  They have destabilized their electric grids while doing nothing meaningful to alter the temperature of the Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

America has been provided with voluminous examples of what not to do on energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CFACT will continue to provide the Trump Administration with the facts it needs to avoid the energy mistakes so many others have made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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