Offshore Wind’s EPA Check (Empire Wind 1 at risk)

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#a_brooks">Allen Brooks</a> -- April 22, 2025

“Every statement pushing back on Interior Secretary Burgum’s directive would equally apply to the Keystone XL pipeline situation. However, since Keystone involved crude oil, it was not entitled to the rights that green energy demands. Yet, the current critics quickly point out that the U.S. needs all forms of energy.”

On April 16, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to order Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor (formerly Statoil) to cease all construction activities related to its offshore wind project, Empire Wind 1. The announcement came when Equinor notified BOEM to begin construction activities.

The initial work included dumping the first load of rocks on the ocean floor to protect the wind turbine foundations. The work was scheduled to start in late April, with foundation pile-driving to follow.…

Jennifer Granholm: Now Corporate Welfare Lobbyist

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 21, 2025

“Funny how bureaucrats don’t care about spending, the budget deficit, and the national debt. They can always kick the can down the road–until now in the case of Jennifer Granholm and DOE.”

She is not done yet. The next stanza for the former head of the U.S. Department of Energy will be to lobby for her rent-seeking clients (the revolving door). Here is her latest!

This follows Jennifer Granholm‘s last communication on social media, the “I’m-sorry-about-this” open letter (“To my DOE colleagues”) that began

Like many of you, I’ve been sick about the news of the past month. I’ve been hearing about you DOEers whom we recruited for your brilliance and expertise, those of you who moved from your home state to take your skills to the nation, those of you with young children, those of you who took large pay cuts to come into public service, those of you who saw service to our nation as a mission.

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Alaska vs Renewable Portfolio Standard: The Public Awakens

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#kandrews">Kassie Andrews</a> -- April 17, 2025

“The proposal includes Renewable Energy Credits, a pseudo carbon tax wherein co-ops buy credits instead of building renewable projects; a wind-energy bonus multiplier of 1.25x for large projects; and a Fine reinvestment option to force renewable projects. This mandated energy transformation locks Alaskans into unreliable and politically favored renewables, whether the market (or the people) like it or not.”

For decades now, Alaska’s energy policy has come to be shaped not by the will of the people but by nefarious outside influence. The long track of intrusion has been led by climate activists and their NGOs (nongovernmental organizations).

Back in 2010, renewable energy targets were snuck into Alaska energy policy, laying the groundwork for today’s clamor for the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS). Most Alaskans don’t realize how much of this policy was written by and for self-interested, Leftie NGOs. …