Instead of focusing on the socioeconomics that exists in all races and infrastructure investments, advocates push race-based narratives that divide Americans rather than solve problems.
President Trump’s executive order on wind turbines was a major leap forward, however as always, the devil is in the details. The EO may leave room for wind profiteers such as Virginia’s Dominion Energy to slip more monstrous turbines through the legal cracks and onto our coast.
“It is with a sense of real urgency we are writing to you today.” We wrote, “we much appreciate President Trump’s Emergency Order for temporary withdrawal of all areas on the outer continental shelf from offshore wind leasing. We count twenty-two projects that have been paused. However, eleven projects have already received approvals with four of those under construction. Leasing and permitting will be reviewed for these approved projects but may take time… We recommend the Interior Department work with NMFS to immediately revoke the Letters of Authorization and order an immediate cession of construction until a review is complete.”
Similarly, the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management {BOEM) is in danger of mindlessly stumbling on with some of Biden’s most ridiculous wind energy policies like a zombie that doesn’t know it’s dead.
Big wind corporations are trying to erect floating wind turbines off California’s beautiful coast. CFACT readers and supporters know that we have been relentlessly pointing out the flaws and dangers of this floating folly for years.
We lay out to a detailed list of reasons why California’s “programmatic environmental impact statement” on California floating wind “is woefully inadequate. In fact it specifically avoids those issues that justify cancelling the Program.” We decisively conclude that, “the full Offshore Wind Program needs to be assessed for the entire West Coast before any project is approved for construction. This required assessment is missing in action. Based on this assessment the cumulative impacts then have to be minimized. Capping the authorized harassment of each threatened species may be the best way to avoid destructive.”
In recent years CFACT senior advisor David Wojick has been perhaps America’s number one star on offshore wind turbine analysis. David Wojick digs deep into the scientific facts and arcane policy documents the government has relied on and spotlights their flaws as does no one else.
David’s most recent post at CFACT.org lays out a simple, extremely daring approach to protect America from the dangers both wind and solar pose for our environment and electric grids. David proposes that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) make full use of its unique authority and prevent future hookups of intermittent / unreliable energy sources such as wind and solar.
Places such as Europe and Australia have wasted vast sums on wind and solar and have nothing positive to show for it. They have transformed places of natural beauty into sterile wind and solar deserts while radically raising the costs of energy for business and homeowners. They have destabilized their electric grids while doing nothing meaningful to alter the temperature of the Earth.
America has been provided with voluminous examples of what not to do on energy.
CFACT will continue to provide the Trump Administration with the facts it needs to avoid the energy mistakes so many others have made.
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Nigel Farage has said he is on a mission to “reindustrialise” Britain, as he accused the Government of having a “miserable” and “declinist” attitude.
Speaking at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London, the Reform UK leader said that the country needs to achieve a “180 shift” in its attitude to achieve higher birth rates.
He also claimed on Tuesday that the right-wing of politics in the UK “is not split”.
Taking questions from Canadian psychologist and political commentator Jordan Peterson on stage, Mr Farage told activists: “The right is not split in this country.
While Net Zero is not top of Farage’s priority list, Farage has been a consistent opponent of expensive energy.
Reform tops a YouGov poll for the first time
4 February 2025, 7:38am
There’s reason for cheer at Reform HQ this morning: Nigel Farage’s party is leading Labour in a YouGov voting intention poll for the first time. According to the poll, Reform UK leads on 25 points with Labour in second place on 24 per cent and the Conservatives in third on 21 per cent. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats are on 14 per cent and the Greens on 9 per cent. While there have been a handful of polls to date putting Reform in the lead, they have so far been regarded as outliers. In response to the poll, Richard Tice, the deputy leader of Reform, said: ‘Much more to come as common sense policies welcomed to save Britain and make us better off’.
Reform leads the polls. Source The Spectator / Yougov, fair use, low resolution image to identify the subject.
Farage’s upstart Reform Party represents a dramatic potential u-turn from decades of bipartisan British Net Zero zealotry.
The current British government is arguably the most extreme green government Britain has ever had, they strongly supports Net Zero and expensive energy. Their energy ideas have frequently featured in WUWT.
A lot of money appears to be lining up behind Farage’s Reform Party, for the first time in its short history. It’s difficult to untangle why this is happening, UK business has made a lot of money from Net Zero.
The issue may be artificial intelligence. In order to stay relevant in today’s global economy, UK business leaders need to embrace artificial intelligence. They may be feeling frustration at the inability of Net Zero to supply the gargantuan energy needs of all the AI capacity they need to build in the near future.
The next UK general election is not due until 2029, so they have a long wait until the British can execute any change in direction. But the momentum for change appears to be growing. A growing number of British people are utterly fed up with green orthodoxy and economic decline, and like the look of what Farage is offering.
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