The military is taking issue with potential offshore wind energy sites in the mid-Atlantic region, saying they could interfere with Defense Department interests in the area.
According to a map first reported by Bloomberg News, the Pentagon marked up several areas to the east and southeast of Chesapeake Bay as “areas that are highly problematic”.
A source for the wind energy industry said the military’s warnings are cause for concern.
They said the map excluded a significant amount of acreage for potential wind farms.
A senior Defense Department official said the map was part of a process to identify areas where wind energy development could interfere with its activities.
“If we have vessel or flight traffic…we would have to work with BOEM [the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management] and the developer to find a place in there that is the least impactful,” the official said.
A spokesperson for BOEM said the department is in the process of reviewing the Pentagon’s assessment and will “take it into consideration”.
The official also pointed out that previously in California, the Pentagon and developers were able to reach a compromise on sites.
“BOEM has a long working relationship with DoD, and together we have successfully deconflicted and identified areas that have resulted in 27 leases, covering over 2.1 million acres on the [Outer Continental Shelf].”
The Biden administration continues to push offshore wind energy production. It set the goal of 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy in production by 2030, which is enough to power just 10 million homes.
The White House allocated $30 million dollars to floating offshore turbine development, as the technology to efficiently generate wind energy from floating turbines does not currently exist.
“There is no time to waste in making bold investments to address the climate crisis and building a strong domestic offshore wind industry is key to meeting that challenge head on,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said.
Its not Biden it’s Obama writing these orders. Biden is too stupid to write anything. Just watch him talk on camera. He doesn’t make sense or understand anything. Biden’s administration is just plain stupid too. Obama and his thugs sitting in DC making disgusting decisions to destroy America. Biden can’t even read his script! Obama needs to be charged with treason and acting like he still the president. Democrats don’t care what Biden is doing or saying because they take their orders from Obama. Just watch the committee’s hearings. The democrats screaming at people who have facts . Witness come to tell their stories but democrats call them liars. A lot of democrat’s women on these hearings are nasty loud mouth unamerican unmoral little girls. They have no facts just hate for anyone who disagree with them. Adam Schiff and Ralph Nader are the worst. They lie every time about anything. To the voters are you really that stupid to keep voting these traitors back into office?. They do nothing for your district. They steal your money to become millionaires. They want your children to control and have sex with them. They back our enemies and give you nothing. You have no honor or backbone to stand up and fight for freedom. All you people want is anything free. Well sorry the democrats give anything free to all the illegals coming into America! They give money to terrorists. All these people coming to America don’t want to be citizens because then will have to give up all the free money ,health care and housing. Our veterans don’t get this stuff. But the socialist brown shirts babies don’t care because the school system taught them to hate our veterans our freedoms ! They taught them to be lazy and have their dirty little hands for anything free. Congrats American parents your children are useless, lazy and brain dead.
Your meaning is clear and true. By brainwashing in schools and universities, the leftist media, we have a ‘blind’ electorate. People on the streets are appallingly ignorant of how our government works, the Constitution, the people who ‘run’ the country. They haven’t been taught history, civics, mathematics, English, or anything useful for their futures. Our country has been stripped of free speech, due process, our Constitutional rights by a Socialist Party still called the Democratic Party, which isn’t Democratic or liberal or progressive. They are the most intolerant and therefore most dangerous to anyone who disagrees with their ideology. The U.S. Government has been undermined and corrupted from the White House to the Congress, to the military, by big business and foreign governments. They’ve sold out America for money and power, not realizing how little that will mean when China takes over the world stage.