Western offshore wind EIS is MIA
By
David Wojick
|
January 22nd, 2025
Last month I analyzed various holes in the draft federal California Programmatic EIS (PEIS) for offshore wind. See.
Now a new report shows that these seemingly big holes are tiny compared to the yawning Programmatic EIS gap created by the Federal Action Plan for West Coast offshore wind development.
To begin with the full California Program is huge compared to the measly five leases covered by the so-called California PEIS. The document I wrote about would be better called the Starter Kit EIS. Plus there is a lot of development off of Oregon and Washington.
I earlier pointed out that the PEIS document did not address the cumulative impact of those five leases; it just looked at the generic impact of one lease. But what is really Missing In Action is an environmental impact assessment for the entire West Coast Program.
The new report bears the long title: “AN ACTION PLAN FOR Offshore Wind Transmission Development in the U.S. West Coast Region” (all caps in the original).
https://www.cfact.org/2025/01/22/western-offshore-wind-eis-is-mia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=western-offshore-wind-eis-is-mia&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=western-offshore-wind-eis-is-mia
