Private enterprise meets soviet central planner
couldn’t he just use his own money, start his own company and get it done on his own dime? can’t POSSIBLY be that expensive...right? oh wait...it’s new jersey, famous for construction overruns in the MILLIONS! guessing the company that pulled out realized that with all of the palms that would need greasing there wasn’t any room left to make a decent profit.
All the profit in wind energy comes from government subsidies, but right now, interest rates are burying the subsidies. Add that to the problems with wind energy not being available when and where it is needed and industry warnings from the early nineties are coming back to haunt environmental con men.
In WA, you can add the problems with protecting whales and salmon to the off shore wind energy hypocrisy in addition to the fact that we have more available hydro-power than we need.
Murphy is pissed because he will lose millions on his cut from the deal.