Comments on: Letter Back from the ‘Clean Energy Future,’ Part A https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2021/01/02/letter-back-from-the-%e2%80%98clean-energy-future%e2%80%99-part-a/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jeff Tittel https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2021/01/02/letter-back-from-the-%e2%80%98clean-energy-future%e2%80%99-part-a/#comment-348205 Jeff Tittel Sat, 02 Jan 2021 18:35:48 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=35710#comment-348205 <strong>New Jersey wind port just hot air if LNG terminal also goes forward</strong> From South Jersey Times Letters, December 28, 2020 In another win for wind power, Gov. Phil Murphy has announced a large manufacturing facility for offshore wind turbines will be built at the Port of Paulsboro. This would be the largest such plant in the country, and a would be another step closer to making offshore wind installations off the New Jersey coast a reality. The new Ørsted/EEW manufacturing facility will help create 500 good-paying “green jobs.” The wind-port announcement is good, but it is undermined by Gov. Murphy’s representative to the Delaware River Basin Commission voting “yes” on a key permit for another port project that would bring a liquefied natural gas export terminal to Gibbstown. This is happening when we really need to create new jobs because of the pandemic. Reducing pollution is also more important than ever, now that coronavirus infection rates have been linked to air pollution exposure. Over 10 years ago, then-Gov. Chris Christie signed the Offshore Wind Economic Development Act in Paulsboro. Now this development is finally becoming a reality after eight years of inaction under Christie. We are now transitioning this site from a contaminated refinery and tank farm to an offshore wind manufacturing facility. This shows that the future is wind, and the past is fossil fuels. If the governor wants New Jersey’s clean-energy transformation to begin, he needs to stop the Gibbstown LNG terminal. Otherwise, his words are just more hot air. Concurrent LNG development takes some wind out of the sails of the Paulsboro announcement, especially since the exported gas is likely to come from fracking, in a project will create more climate impacts and public safety issues. If Murphy really cared about renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gases, he would step in and stop the LNG port from moving forward. Jeff Tittel, Director, New Jersey Sierra Club, Trenton New Jersey wind port just hot air if LNG terminal also goes forward

From South Jersey Times Letters, December 28, 2020

In another win for wind power, Gov. Phil Murphy has announced a large manufacturing facility for offshore wind turbines will be built at the Port of Paulsboro.

This would be the largest such plant in the country, and a would be another step closer to making offshore wind installations off the New Jersey coast a reality. The new Ørsted/EEW manufacturing facility will help create 500 good-paying “green jobs.”

The wind-port announcement is good, but it is undermined by Gov. Murphy’s representative to the Delaware River Basin Commission voting “yes” on a key permit for another port project that would bring a liquefied natural gas export terminal to Gibbstown.

This is happening when we really need to create new jobs because of the pandemic. Reducing pollution is also more important than ever, now that coronavirus infection rates have been linked to air pollution exposure.

Over 10 years ago, then-Gov. Chris Christie signed the Offshore Wind Economic Development Act in Paulsboro. Now this development is finally becoming a reality after eight years of inaction under Christie. We are now transitioning this site from a contaminated refinery and tank farm to an offshore wind manufacturing facility. This shows that the future is wind, and the past is fossil fuels.

If the governor wants New Jersey’s clean-energy transformation to begin, he needs to stop the Gibbstown LNG terminal. Otherwise, his words are just more hot air.

Concurrent LNG development takes some wind out of the sails of the Paulsboro announcement, especially since the exported gas is likely to come from fracking, in a project will create more climate impacts and public safety issues.

If Murphy really cared about renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gases, he would step in and stop the LNG port from moving forward.

Jeff Tittel, Director, New Jersey Sierra Club, Trenton

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A bit utopian, but if you want to read a really utopian novel, read Bellamy’s LOOKING BACKWARD, written in 1888 (yes, that’s 1888) and wonder why we are where we are today.

Bill

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