Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine
Maine AG praises ruling declaring Trump’s offshore wind halt unlawful
In a statement Tuesday, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey said he was grateful the court agreed that the Trump administration overstepped with the executive order.
“Whatever the federal administration’s position is on wind power, it does not have the right to arbitrarily ban development of this sustainable energy resource,” Frey said, adding that he and other attorneys general will continue to work to hold the federal government accountable.
Developing offshore wind as a power source has been at the crux of Maine’s clean energy and climate goals, though that planning has had several fits and starts.
In 2010, the state worked on a $120 million offshore wind pilot project that never came to fruition. But a decade later, Gov. Janet Mills signed a law that not only pumped new life into the effort..................
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Penny Gray
Well, who cares about Maine's fishery or the whales and marine ecology when we have the opportunity (unproven of course) to power gazillions of homes on this cheap floating energy?
6 hours ago