Groups Fighting Floating Wind

CanaryMedia: "Anti-offshore wind groups target $425M grant for California port." California plans to generate up to 5gigawatts [GW = billion watts or ~1 nuke] of offshore wind by 2030 + 25 GW by 2045. "Representatives of a D.C.-based conservative think tank, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), and a local California community group asked U.S. Department of Transportation...to cancel a $426M grant issued last year to repurpose the Redwood Marine Terminal in Northern California’s Humboldt County for wind." This move represents a 'westward spread of anti-wind activism from the East Coast, where longtime organized opposition has found sympathetic ears as it petitions Trump administration to tank permitted projects.' "Both CFACT and the California community group, Responsible Energy Adaptation for California’s Transition (REACT) Alliance, are part of the National Offshore Wind Opposition Alliance, a coalition formed last year to broaden the fight against offshore wind, which had previously played out mostly at the local level." Over the last 5 yrs, Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation, and Conservation District has already used nearly $20M in state and federal funds to design and permit much of the planned wharf, including 'additional funds for port expansion as well as environmental restoration, a solar array, trails, public kayaking access, and a fishing pier.' CFACThas received substantial financial support from fossil fuel interests, + has been undermining science of climate change and attacking efforts to address the issue for decades. Trying to slow the inevitable energy transition hurts all of us.