UPDATE: 🌊 My colleagues at E&E News used FOIA to obtain a copy of that elusive NOAA report I wrote about. The one Trump used to pause construction of a New York offshore wind farm and bleed the wind company of almost $1B. 😱 All 27-pages they obtained were blacked out.
hey, @schumer.senate.gov whatcha' doin'
FOIA for communication concerning that FOIA to include redactions.
Wind energy is so very controversial. Take all politics out of the equation: Does wind energy industrialize nature? - YES Does wind energy harm/kill marine life - YES Does wind energy produce energy well - NO and so on.
Wind is providing 16.2% of the UK's electricity right now grid.iamkate.com
Let's set aside the fact that you're wrong on all three points, because it's totally irrelevant here. The question is, why is the Trump administration hiding the data it used to make the decision? Simple: the data does not support the decision they made.
I said take politics out of the equation & I'm not wrong about anything.
You said "take politics out of it," which is to miss the point of the story entirely. This is about good governance and transparency. Which apparently you're against, if it leads to less wind power.
The story is about how Trump is abandoning supposed green energy & I'm stating that it's not green or worthwhile energy, so it doesn't matter.
You're either a fool for believing what you say, or a liar for saying it & a fool for thinking anyone will believe you. Wind power is environmentally sustainable & produces valuable energy. It's twice as valuable when twinned with firming technology like batteries.
You're either totally ignorant or totally stupid. Anyway, watch this video from Australia on this sustainable clean wind energy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=65dx...
The fact that Fox News Australia (go ahead and deny it all you want) saw fit to publish this should give you every reason to be skeptical.
The "news"-caster (who sounds like a drunken football hooligan) admits at the front of the video that his goal is to bang the drum and amplify any random NIMBY who complains a wind turbine is ruining their view. Are you deluded enough to believe that staying on fossil fuels is an option?
All I'm hearing is that because you agree with the decision, you don't care that the government is hiding how they came to the decision. You don't care about government transparency. This is very straightforward.
Sorry, I have no interest in politics.
I admire your good-faith effort to correct an absolute fucking clown.
It's not too late to learn about things. Perhaps start with a high school education.
you don’t exist
You have the intellect of a drop-out moron.
Perhaps it wasn't blacked out. Perhaps that's all it was... Seriously though - this contemptuous response deserves a judicial slap.
Somewhat insane question, but what are the mechanisms that would prevent NY state from approving the work and then having the project proceed? At what point can federal government lawlessness be used to do good stuff? Would the USCG be able to block work from proceeding? Would it be un-insurable?
Trump reversed the halt on May 19 after Norwegian diplomats intervened. The wind developer, Equinor, is a Norwegian state-owned company. Here's a timeline I wrote up that tracks Trump's monthslong attempt to kill the Empire Wind project off New York's coastline: www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
Thanks. What I'm wondering, seeing as the administration is doing lots of stuff unilaterally regardless of the law, what happens if NY tries that for this project? Are there federal enforcement mechanisms that would block the project going online if NY state said ok, ignore the feds on this one?
Lies and obfuscations. Propping up the fossil fuel industry by sabotaging cheaper clean energy alternatives. #ClimateChangeBugsMe This administration will never be forgiven for damage they do to the planet. It will take generations to erase the damages of each year in 47’s reign of terrors.
www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul... (not really informative, i know but I found it pretty quickly -- maybe it's not the same one)
That’s not it
This would strike me as suspicious coming from anybody but Trump, who has earned my trust like you would not believe.
Can i at least say one-finger salute?
JFC!
It only gets worse from here.