Offshore wind developer US Wind is firing back at federal agencies that seek to withdraw their approval for a wind energy project off Maryland’s coast.
Last week, the company filed a counterclaim in a federal lawsuit, which argues the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and National Marine Fisheries Service are acting illegally in seeking to vacate their approvals for the Maryland project, which calls for the construction of 114 turbines starting roughly 11 miles off the coast of Ocean City.
US Wind claims the agencies’ attempted actions violate the Administrative Procedure Act, the company’s due process rights and multiple federal environmental and development laws, including the Marine Mammal Protection Act, Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, and the Fixing Americas Surface Transportation Act.
“The Federal Defendants’ efforts to vacate and undermine the Federal Approvals are inextricably tied to a wider plan to hinder or kill outright offshore wind projects (and renewable energy projects more generally) for political purposes, as evidenced by numerous official acts and public statements by Federal Defendants, various members of the current Presidential Administration, and others within the federal government acting in concert with Federal Defendants,” the counterclaim reads.
“The rationale offered by the Federal Defendants to justify the remand, vacatur, and undermining of the Federal Approvals—and any future rationales — are illegal, factually incorrect, and pretextual means to arrive at a pre-determined outcome in accordance with the aforementioned plan.”
us wind is foreign company using name us wind to make everyone think they are domestic American company. Denying a permit should not even be an issue. Who do they think they are coming here and trying to bully the east coast people? Electric rates will go out of sight due to subsidies paid for with our tax dollars. A foreign company should never be eligible for any subsidy.
Evidently the Europeans and Scandinavians have discovered the uselessness, destruction and financial ruin associated with the wind turbine fantasy, so they’re left with trying to bully and bribe the US “market”.
its all about the money boo hoo we want that money we have to build
go off the Florida coast they have alot of wind down there
Where’s your state reps at? Gettin their grift on!!! Corroza?Adam’s?
MD DemSen aka MD Man Crusader is busy endorsing a Communist for Mayor of NYC.
US Wind blows.