wind energy

California has approved a plan to create a “massive” system of floating offshore wind turbines, some as high as 70-story buildings, far off the coast and in deep waters, requiring major upgrades to ports along the state’s coastline.

The Danish company Ørsted announced this week that it is canceling the development of its two major offshore wind projects in New Jersey.

Green energy stocks have dropped significantly in the last few months, underperforming compared to oil and gas companies, as high interest takes its toll.

The leftist government of Scotland has admitted to felling nearly 16 million trees to make way for supposedly ‘green energy’ wind turbines.

New Jersey lawmakers advanced on Tuesday a bill that would allow federal tax credits, originally meant for energy customers, to go to the Danish “green” corporation Ørsted, the company responsible for the widely hated “Ocean Wind” offshore projects that have inspired widespread protests statewide.

The office of Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) announced on Thursday that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) would soon begin a requested investigation into a plan spearheaded by Democrat Governor Phil Murphy to build massive wind energy projects off the shores of New Jersey.

The director of the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Liz Klein, did not answer directly during a hearing on Wednesday when asked if offshore wind turbines planned for installation in the Northeast could survive Category 2 or 3 hurricanes.

A panel of experts testifying to members of Congress at an in-district hearing in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Thursday warned that offshore wind projects actively promoted and subsidized by state and national Democrats could greatly interfere with radar and navigation in the Atlantic Ocean, creating a national security threat.

NEW JERSEY – An alarming increase in the number of dead marine mammals washing up along the New Jersey coast has renewed enthusiasm against Trenton and White House plans to litter the shoreline with wind farms, a “green” measure on which Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy has gambled his legacy.

Britain’s National Grid has announced it is firing up two coal-fired reserve power plants as a winter snap and lack of wind leave the country facing blackouts amid a general energy crisis. 

Prime Minister Liz Truss agreed to sign up for a major wind power project at the meeting of Emmanuel Macron’s European Political Community.

Republican Washington state U.S. Senate candidate Tiffany Smiley is calling for a return to American energy independence, according to her energy and environment policy proposal obtained exclusively by Breitbart News.

Scotland’s climate crazy local government has openly rejected proposed plans aimed at alleviating the ongoing energy crisis by drilling for more oil in the North Sea.

Boris Johnson is reportedly set to beg that the future leadership of Britain keep pushing his net zero green agenda, despite the fact that the country faces a crippling energy crisis.

Elon Musk’s Tesla recently warned customers in Texas to avoid charging their electric cars during peak times in an attempt to prevent overtaxing the state’s power grid amidst an ongoing heatwave. An alert sent to Tesla cars in the state warns owners not to charge their vehicles during the afternoon and well into the evening.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has warned power consumers in Texas to conserve energy on Monday afternoon and evening because there will not be enough wind power to operate the power grid reliably in peak demand.

In the Build Back Better effort to radically transform the UK’s energy system, millions of Britons will be paid to ration their energy usage.

Boris Johnson’s Build Back Better green agenda is a “big mistake,” former President Donald Trump told Nigel Farage.

President Joe Biden’s proposal to tax the oil and gas industries in the reconciliation bill would be costly to both the economy and in terms of job loss, an analysis by the American Petroleum Institute’s Energy Citizens initiative found.

President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal is facing GOP criticism over divergent line items unrelated to classical infrastructure investment. 

Joe Biden’s “climate change” policies will end energy independence and lock away trillions worth of natural resources, said Stephen Moore.

Plumbers from out of state are needed in Texas to help repair frozen pipes, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said on Friday.

Nearly half of the wind turbines in the state of Texas froze in recent winter weather, hurting state power supplies, according to state authorities.

Environmental activists who believe climate change is an existential threat are happy about what lawmakers stuffed into the spending bill.

The United Kingdom has reportedly been sending millions of pounds sterling to the communist Chinese state in foreign aid, subsidising one of the world’s largest economies as well as one of the most totalitarian regimes on Earth.

Another hole has been punched in the leftist promise of a so-called “green jobs revolution”, as wind turbine manufacturing jobs are sent to Communist-run China and the Middle East.

The British taxpayer will be footing the majority of a record £9.3 million bill that was paid to wind farms not to run their giant turbines.

An artificial depression created around the coronavirus outbreak will kill thousands of Americans, explained Jacki Pick.

Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore launched a new documentary, Planet of the Humans, on Tuesday, ahead of the 50th Earth Day on Apr. 22. Like most Moore projects, it targets corporate greed and hypocrisy. But this time, the greed and hypocrisy it targets are on the environmentalist left.

Last week, millions of pounds in “constraint payments” were paid to wind energy farms to not run their turbines.

The government of Germany will consider a proposal by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to pay citizens money who are forced to live next to wind turbines.

Ostensibly environmentalist left-wingers living in smog-ridden cities lack credibility on environmental issues, said Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV), in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Former Democrat Congressman and presidential hopeful Robert “Beto” O’Rourke will fight climate change through executive action when he is elected by ending new leases for oil and gas production on federal lands.

Michael Bloomberg is giving away more of his personal fortune to advance his radical environmental agenda, this time pledging $500 million to shutter every coal mine in the United States and slow the production of cheap, clean, and plentiful natural gas.

The bankruptcy of California utility giant Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) Tuesday will complicate efforts by Democrats to pursue a “Green New Deal,” which aims to move the U.S. to 100% renewable energy.

Billionaire and 2020 Democrat presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg traveled to Iowa Tuesday to discuss wind energy.
Bloomberg backtracked on his previous statements regarding his opposition to corn-based ethanol, one of Iowa’s major economic drivers.