All five offshore wind projects halted by the Trump administration in December can resume construction after a federal judge’s ruling on Monday that cleared Denmark’s Ørsted to proceed with its Sunrise Wind project off the coast of New York.
Ørsted’s request for an injunction blocking the interior department order was the fifth brought by an offshore wind developer since the 22 December pause on five leases. The agency stopped work on the multibillion-dollar facilities due to national security concerns around radar interference.
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Ørsted has spent or committed more than $7bn to date to build Sunrise Wind, the company said. If the stop-work order is not lifted by 6 February, the project risks losing access to a specialized vessel needed to complete installation of an offshore cable, Ørsted attorneys argued at the hearing.
The argument was similar to those made at four other hearings in recent weeks.
“Every court to review this question has now found that the loss of specialized vessels and resulting delays amounts to irreparable harm. I agree,” Royce Lamberth, a US district court judge, said before granting Ørsted’s request.
Which we can turn into the world's largest wind farm! And with all those turbines constantly spinning and creating wind, Greenland will stay cool and its ice cap won't melt. We did it!
Which we can turn into the world's largest wind farm! And with all those turbines constantly spinning and creating wind, Greenland will stay cool and its ice cap won't melt. We did it!
Of all of modern conservatisms baffling, harmful, ignorant positions, the hate for renewable energy is the most baffling to me by far. Even if we were to ignore the absolutely gargantuan amount of...
Of all of modern conservatisms baffling, harmful, ignorant positions, the hate for renewable energy is the most baffling to me by far.
Even if we were to ignore the absolutely gargantuan amount of evidence supporting the idea that CO2 emissions will result in massive economic and quality of life impacts and pretend climate change isn't real, there are so many other advantages.
It's now the cheapest type of energy production there is, even including bundling battery storage with it. It makes sense, because it doesn't require labor intensive prospecting, fracking, drilling, and transportation like fossil fuel extraction does. It also doesn't have the problem of fossil fuel extraction where each unit of energy extracted makes the next unit of energy more difficult and expensive to extract, since decisions on where to extract fossil fuels are made based on how cheap it is, so after that site is depleted, the next site available is more expensive.
It reduces reliance of foreign powers for energy, because we have enough land in the US to produce all of the energy we could conceivably need for hundreds of years to come, and that energy never runs out. It's literally given to us for free for millions of years.
It seems like such an absolute no brainer, and I constantly scratch my head at why anyone, but especially conservatives would never oppose it. It's literally the free market choosing the most efficient option. It can be completely manufactured, controlled, and maintained within the US, and it preserves our natural resources.
It seems like just by a sheer flip of the coin that they've taken a lot of money from fossil fuel interests and so this has just become their policy position, divorced of any actual semblance to what they preport to believe in.
We can, and do have a thriving manufacturing industry based on renewables in the US. It could be even stronger, and actually have a chance of returning some of those manufacturing jobs that Republicans keep complaining that are going to China, because gigantic turbine blades are some of the few things that might make economic sense to not ship across the ocean and instead build in place if you can help it.
It always makes me confused when conservatives try to contort themselves into knots to reconcile their stance on that one.
Propaganda. It's always propaganda. Those in power don't want cheap renewable energy since it means less dependence on, and thus less money for, the oil corporations that lavish them with...
It always makes me confused when conservatives try to contort themselves into knots to reconcile their stance on that one.
Propaganda. It's always propaganda.
Those in power don't want cheap renewable energy since it means less dependence on, and thus less money for, the oil corporations that lavish them with donations and other benefits (assuming the powerful don't already have stakes in said companies).
Resource scarcity (artificial or not) is also useful to maintain control over a population. The poorer and more financially dependent the population is, the easier it is to keep them there and not in power. Capitalism necessitates there be a massive chunk of the population exploited while the 1% reap the majority of the benefits (capital).
So the GOP spends a truck load of money bashing renewables in hopes of creating a solid base that will support them and thus these positions. Solar farms? Imagine all the land farmers will lose! And the electrical grid, imagine how unstable it'd be! Building wind generators? Those things are so ugly! etc.
To the uneducated who only consume this content, those arguments will sound plausible if repeated enough times, especially if they already believe that there's a democrat cabal actively trying to ruin their lives or whatever (which to them will match reality because most of these folks live in isolation and are constantly seeing their lives getting worse, so they seek a target to point the finger to, and the GOP excels at creating targets to direct anger toward).
Taking an opposite stance also serves as a wedge issue. It allows them to differentiate themselves from the opponent party. “Only dumb commie leftists use solar or wind power. Our family uses coal...
Taking an opposite stance also serves as a wedge issue. It allows them to differentiate themselves from the opponent party.
“Only dumb commie leftists use solar or wind power. Our family uses coal like our daddies did”.
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Is Trump gonna spew more words about Denmark.
It's all a ploy to preempt his capture of Greenland!
Which we can turn into the world's largest wind farm! And with all those turbines constantly spinning and creating wind, Greenland will stay cool and its ice cap won't melt. We did it!
https://xkcd.com/1378/
Of all of modern conservatisms baffling, harmful, ignorant positions, the hate for renewable energy is the most baffling to me by far.
Even if we were to ignore the absolutely gargantuan amount of evidence supporting the idea that CO2 emissions will result in massive economic and quality of life impacts and pretend climate change isn't real, there are so many other advantages.
It's now the cheapest type of energy production there is, even including bundling battery storage with it. It makes sense, because it doesn't require labor intensive prospecting, fracking, drilling, and transportation like fossil fuel extraction does. It also doesn't have the problem of fossil fuel extraction where each unit of energy extracted makes the next unit of energy more difficult and expensive to extract, since decisions on where to extract fossil fuels are made based on how cheap it is, so after that site is depleted, the next site available is more expensive.
It reduces reliance of foreign powers for energy, because we have enough land in the US to produce all of the energy we could conceivably need for hundreds of years to come, and that energy never runs out. It's literally given to us for free for millions of years.
It seems like such an absolute no brainer, and I constantly scratch my head at why anyone, but especially conservatives would never oppose it. It's literally the free market choosing the most efficient option. It can be completely manufactured, controlled, and maintained within the US, and it preserves our natural resources.
It seems like just by a sheer flip of the coin that they've taken a lot of money from fossil fuel interests and so this has just become their policy position, divorced of any actual semblance to what they preport to believe in.
We can, and do have a thriving manufacturing industry based on renewables in the US. It could be even stronger, and actually have a chance of returning some of those manufacturing jobs that Republicans keep complaining that are going to China, because gigantic turbine blades are some of the few things that might make economic sense to not ship across the ocean and instead build in place if you can help it.
It always makes me confused when conservatives try to contort themselves into knots to reconcile their stance on that one.
Propaganda. It's always propaganda.
Those in power don't want cheap renewable energy since it means less dependence on, and thus less money for, the oil corporations that lavish them with donations and other benefits (assuming the powerful don't already have stakes in said companies).
Resource scarcity (artificial or not) is also useful to maintain control over a population. The poorer and more financially dependent the population is, the easier it is to keep them there and not in power. Capitalism necessitates there be a massive chunk of the population exploited while the 1% reap the majority of the benefits (capital).
So the GOP spends a truck load of money bashing renewables in hopes of creating a solid base that will support them and thus these positions. Solar farms? Imagine all the land farmers will lose! And the electrical grid, imagine how unstable it'd be! Building wind generators? Those things are so ugly! etc.
To the uneducated who only consume this content, those arguments will sound plausible if repeated enough times, especially if they already believe that there's a democrat cabal actively trying to ruin their lives or whatever (which to them will match reality because most of these folks live in isolation and are constantly seeing their lives getting worse, so they seek a target to point the finger to, and the GOP excels at creating targets to direct anger toward).
Taking an opposite stance also serves as a wedge issue. It allows them to differentiate themselves from the opponent party.
“Only dumb commie leftists use solar or wind power. Our family uses coal like our daddies did”.