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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I remember the pro-whales groups from fifty years ago having meetings to decide “Do Whales have souls?” Never heard what they decided.
Reminds me of NAME OF THE ROSE in which theologians gather to decide “Did Christ, or did he not, own the clothes that he wore?”
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