Posted on 03/27/2024 3:34:32 AM PDT by Libloather
A federal lawsuit pits green energy against saving endangered whales, as three conservative groups are suing the Biden administration to stop what they say would be the largest wind energy project in the world.
The Virginia Offshore Wind project could cause significant harm to the North Atlantic right whale, according to the 61-page complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia filed by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), the Heartland Institute and the National Legal and Policy Center against federal agencies as well as Dominion Energy.
The lawsuit names the Interior Department, the Commerce Department, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the National Marine Fisheries Service, top officials at those agencies and the Virginia-based energy company Dominion, which plans to start construction of the project on May 1.
"On one hand, the Biden administration says you have to have renewable energy, but in the process, the windmills have an environmental impact, not only on whales but on birds that get chopped up by the windmills," Paul Kamenar, counsel for the National Legal and Policy Center, told Fox News Digital. "Our position is that it’s a larger issue than the environment, but relying on windmills is also an economic issue that will cost consumers and make energy less reliable."
The lawsuit aims to cause Dominion to halt construction on the project until the ocean management agency develops a new "biological opinion" that covers verifiable protection against potential harm to the North Atlantic right whale. The lawsuit claims the agencies illegally approved Dominion Energy’s offshore wind project by ignoring procedural errors that would subject the endangered whales to grave harm.
The lawsuit has no merit, according to Dominion spokesperson Jeremy Slayton.
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Drill. No Mills.
Yep, bats, insects, eagles, hawks, whales and probably lots of other wildlife.
We drove through the Palouse region of Washington State around Colfax, WA on Sunday. We saw hundreds of “No Wind Farms” signs on 80% of the properties. They are fighting the expansion of the horrendous wind energy system that blights the Columbia River Gorge for 75 miles. The ridges and skylines are visually blighted with thousands of these infernal, wasteful machines.
Local communities have been very successful in recent years at stopping these projects.
SAVE THE WHALES!🙂
The courts are where the real money is made.
guessing they couldn’t find the right whale to interview for a whale’s take on all of this blubbering. c’mon man! what about the whale’s tale?
And that’s above ground, the landfills don’t want the fiberglass either as they can’t recycled. And there is also the issue of the rare earth minerals often mined by child slaves (like EV batteries) around the world.
Exactly. Conventional power plants are mainly steel and can be recycled. Not so with wind machines.
The left eating the left.
This pleases me.
If there can be windmills off Virginia shore then the arguments preventing drilling off shore are moot
And that’s just the beginning. A good percentage of these ugly, environment killing machines are made from imported chicom resources, and there’s the issue of those extremely large concrete pads that approach 30,000 TONS.
The amount of concrete is just the beginning, “manufacturing a cubic yard of concrete (about 3900 lbs) is responsible for emitting about 400 lbs of CO2” but the frauds do not tell you that. These foundations are permanent and will last thousands of years.
Of course that is just the initial construction of how polluting they are, the grifters never tell you that.
We used to kill whales for Oil.
Now, we kill whales for Wind.
Right whale? As opposed to a left whale?
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“...filed by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)”
Do they take donations?
Remember the only 6.84 years left clock is AOC’s clock ,LOL
Nope. As opposed to wrong whale.
Could be her biological clock. And we all know THAT’S tickin’...
***SAVE THE WHALES!***
Remember the counter bumper stickers to this? “NUKE THE WHALES!”
I had some guy blow around me on I-44 in OKC back in 1977 with an artificial whale on the top of his car. On the sides were large banners proclaiming “SAVE THE WHALES! BOYCOTT JAPANESE PRODUCTS!”
He was driving a Japanese made Datsun.
Now THAT is funny!
Whales have rights?
Whales are right-wingers?
Right Whales are good?
Lefties and liberals are going to get more confused, now.
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