Reality bites Biden’s Gulf of Mexico wind dreams
By Duggan Flanakin |November 17th, 2022|
President Joe Biden, fresh from a surprisingly good November election for his fellow Democrats, has redoubled his commitment to rid the world of natural fuels (oil, gas, coal) and impose an all-electric universe powered in large part by offshore wind farms.
To that end, Biden recently announced massive wind lease areas offshore from Lake Charles, Louisiana, and Galveston, Texas. One is a 188,023-acre tract located 56 miles offshore from Lake Charles; the other is a 508,265-acre tract 24 nautical miles offshore from Galveston. While Louisiana’s Democrat Governor John Bel Edwards is ebullient about the economic prospects for offshore wind, his Texas counterparts are not.
Two years ago, at the inaugural meeting of his Climate Initiatives Task Force, Edwards had announced a major collaboration with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to establish a task force to build a blueprint for renewable energy production in the Gulf of Mexico.
Edwards was buoyed by the observation from Office of Coastal Activities Deputy Director Harry Vorhoff that, “Renewable energy like offshore wind can help the state cut its emissions and do its part in avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.” As the new leases were announced, Edwards boasted that Louisiana lift-boat operators helped develop the nation’s first commercial offshore wind farm in Rhode Island. That experience, he mused, bodes well for Louisiana.
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