Thread by @Congressman_JVD

Pro-wind activists and the Biden admin are hiding the REAL issues of offshore wind development from the public, and many in our media are refusing to properly examine these concerns.

So, I will highlight them here:

Offshore wind companies, many based in foreign countries, have bought up more than 2 million acres of ocean in the Atlantic, and are already eyeing the Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Ocean, and our Great Lakes for future lease sites.

These turbines are MASSIVE. Rising nearly 1,000 feet above the ocean surface, thousands of these turbines will be lining our horizons for decades to come.

In order to lay transmission cables, wind companies will have to dredge HUNDREDS of miles of sea floor.

Existing BOEM EIS’s claim this dredging will have the same environmental impact as doing nothing at all.

Does that make sense to anyone?

Did you also know that BOEM’s OWN EIS admits that offshore wind will HAVE NO impact on climate change and actually INCREASES greenhouse gas emissions?

These industrial wind grids are being leased right in the middle of some of the Atlantic’s most sensitive environments, historic fishing grounds, and existing maritime transit lanes.

Wind co's and this admin have ignored nearly every attempt at input from these stakeholders.

Industrial wind grids also sit right on top of foraging grounds & migration routes for critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.

Despite warnings from THEIR OWN scientists, BOEM and NOAA have ignored the obvious long term impact these projects will have on marine life.

Wind companies come to contractual power agreements with states YEARS before BOEM begins their EIS process. BOEM uses these contracts as excuses to ignore alternative layout requests from stakeholders.

THE FIX IS IN FROM THE START.

Offshore wind farms have massive impacts on radar systems used by vessels of all sizes. Despite warnings from our own government and outside groups, BOEM has pushed forward with their approvals.

THIS WILL COST LIVES.

This also has raises major concerns for our national security. The DoD has ruled much of the East Coast as “Wind Exclusion Zones” due to turbine impacts on our long-range air surveillance systems. Yet, BOEM has pushed ahead.

The current system in place has allowed offshore wind to move forward too quickly & too recklessly in an attempt to solidify the legacies of green new deal advocates. They hurt the environment, raise energy prices, & will destroy existing industry.

We must fix this process NOW.

Until these problems are mitigated, I will continue to push for a complete moratorium on ALL offshore wind projects.

There is too much at stake & I will not allow these companies, or this administration, hide behind “stopping climate change” as an excuse to destroy our oceans.