The lobster situation in Maine makes for an entertaining sideshow. Increasingly-Democrat Maine relies heavily on its lobster cartel, but the Climate Cult put them in the stocks for “endangering” some bigoted Nazi whales.
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You know, right whales? I think they’ll need to rename them. And there is no real evidence of that, just a feeling, like how they feel the not-green offshore wind scheme will work without harming the same whales.
While the Maine lobster industry has a solid track record that should dispel any concerns, the same cannot be said of proposals to introduce hundreds and eventually thousands of massive offshore wind turbines. Ten large wind farms have been proposed along the right whale’s migratory path, part of the Biden Administration’s goal of building 30 Gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030. It’s a key component of President’s climate change agenda. …
The risks to the whales are real. Bloomberg News recently obtained an internal document in which a senior federal scientist raised concerns that “[a]dditional noise, vessel traffic and habitat modifications due to offshore wind development will likely cause added stress that could result in additional population consequences to a species that is already experiencing rapid decline.” But don’t expect the Center for Biological Diversity or any of the other anti-lobster litigators to file suit this time, as they do not want to stand in the way of President Biden’s climate crusade.
The carbon footprint for even one offshore wind farm is massive. You’ll need many tons of steel and concrete. The steel needs coal, and I’m unfamiliar with any concrete fabrication that uses 100 percent renewables. You then drop all of that into the ocean either embedded in the sea bed or to anchor floating turbines whose output is underwhelming and whose life cycle is shorter than advertised and the end-of-life leftovers, are unrecyclable.
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But hey, if the displaced Lobsterman can’t learn to code, they can learn to build offshore wind farms. Good green jobs, don’t you know and top-heavy with irony and hypocrisy. They won’t let you trap lobster because it might harm the right whales, but you can install wind farms that will, and that’s supposed to be a win for the environment.
