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New York's $6 Billion Plan For Offshore Wind Shows That Oil Drilling Really Is On the Way Out (businessinsider.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled a plan earlier this month to develop $6 billion of offshore wind projects off the southern coast of Long Island by 2028 and predicted that the industry would bring 5,000 jobs to the state. The plan calls for developing 2.4 gigawatts -- enough to power 1.2 million homes -- by 2030. It's all part of New York's Clean Energy Standard, which requires 50% of the state's electricity come from renewable sources like solar and wind. The move comes as President Donald Trump earlier this month announced a five-year plan to open up areas of the East Coast to offshore drilling.
"While the federal government continues to turn its back on protecting natural resources and plots to open up our coastline to drilling, New York is doubling down on our commitment to renewable energy and the industries of tomorrow," Cuomo said in a statement. Cuomo has asked Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke for an exemption from the drilling plan, saying in an open letter that the plan "undermines New York's efforts to combat climate change by shifting from greenhouse gas emitting fossil energy sources to renewable sources, such as offshore wind." The report identifies a 1 million acre site approximately 20 miles south of Long Island that would best support the wind turbines, and "ensure that, for the vast majority of the time, turbines would have no discernible or visible impact from the casual viewer on the shore." The report also notes that New Jersey announced a similar plan last Wednesday to develop 3.5 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity off its coast.
"While the federal government continues to turn its back on protecting natural resources and plots to open up our coastline to drilling, New York is doubling down on our commitment to renewable energy and the industries of tomorrow," Cuomo said in a statement. Cuomo has asked Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke for an exemption from the drilling plan, saying in an open letter that the plan "undermines New York's efforts to combat climate change by shifting from greenhouse gas emitting fossil energy sources to renewable sources, such as offshore wind." The report identifies a 1 million acre site approximately 20 miles south of Long Island that would best support the wind turbines, and "ensure that, for the vast majority of the time, turbines would have no discernible or visible impact from the casual viewer on the shore." The report also notes that New Jersey announced a similar plan last Wednesday to develop 3.5 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity off its coast.
Nothing says protecting nature like 100 windmills on your ocean front view.
Or 100 dead ospreys on your beach.
Which risk would you mitigate first and how?
I'd first mitigate the risk of the lights going out.
Obviously you are afraid of the dark.
I'd do that by building some fucking nuclear power reactors.
How would you get the nuclear power reactors to fuck?
Lots and lots of them. Big ones too.
Sound's like you are sexually frustrated and you want to watch nuclear reactors fucking.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Something tells me we don't need to follow their supposed "lead". But they are welcome to drive up the cost of living in their own states if they like.
We're paying for the cost of living in most of the other states, so you'd better fucking hope we do. If our tax revenues plummet, then the rest of you are well and rightly fucked, just like you deserve for failing to carry your share of the load all this time. California produces over 50% of the food that the entire country eats, California and New York produce the vast majority of the media that the world consumes (which by the way is a massive PR program for our country) and we also have to produce culture so that it can trickle down to the inbreds in the flyover states who wouldn't be able to eat if they weren't getting our money. There's a reason why cultural trends in America begin in CA or NY. People who live here still have dreams.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"