Things are not going as smoothly for offshore wind development in New York’s Lake Ontario waters. As a matter of fact they are not going at all.
NYPA’s G.L.O.W DEAD in THE WATER.
The shakeup at the New York Power Authority seems to have had a chilling effect for the NYPA’s Great Lakes Offshore Wind (GLOW) program. In July NYPA, president and CEO Richard Kessel gave the Authority’s board notice of his resignation.
While at NYPA, Kessel pursued the developing of New York’s Great Lakes, for wind development with a vengeance. Kessel’s quest began on Earth Day 2009 when he first introduced NYPA’s GLOW Project.
The initial stages featured a competitive process to award power purchase agreements to prospective developers of offshore wind projects in New York’s Great Lakes. Things looked positive for Kessel’s dream at first: NYPA reported that five developers responded to NYPA’s request for proposals by the summer of 2010; However NYPA refused to respond to a FOIL request to reveal who these developers were. NYPA appeared to be reviewing the proposals, with a winner to be announced no later than January 2011.
Today Tom Precious, of the Buffalo News, has posted N.Y. a story that NYPA’s GLOW is dead in the water.
Sept. 16--ALBANY -- An ambitious plan for what was to be the nation's first freshwater wind farm with as many as 150 large turbines in Lake Erie off Buffalo's shoreline is being halted, a state lawmaker with firsthand knowledge said Thursday.
Less than two years after the New York Power Authority unveiled its wind turbine plan as a major generator of green energy and jobs in Western New York, the authority is quietly shelving the project.
The project called for generation of 120 megawatts to 500 megawatts of electricity from as many as 150 giant turbines atop towers within six miles of the shoreline. The program would have resulted in far fewer turbines being built as part of a process to allay concerns over, some sources said.
Maziarz said he has heard from authority officials that the local project's high price tag was not cost-effective and that some localities expressed worries about the visual aspects of wind farms on the horizon. More
Sources:
Thu, Jul 28, 2011
Business, Federal, Great Lakes, NY / NJ
By Todd Griset
The Buffalo News, 2011-09-16
By Tom Precious, The Buffalo News, N.Y.
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Windpower junkies are a genre of scumbag all their own. They all look like nuclear genetically mutated pigs. Too much inbreeding at the public trough, I suppose. It appears some of Hitler's genetic experiments on the Nazis themselves escaped after WW2 and took over certain sectors of American Industry. I think they use public projects to finance their reproduction. Please, if you see any of these mutated scumbags lobbying your local, state, or federal government , report them to your nearest progressive news agencies. Mainstream media has completely dropped the ball on so many issues. I don't wonder why.I think they are all related.
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