Not in Bruce’s yard!
Nassau County Govt Bruce Blakeman is ramping up his marketing campaign towards inexperienced power on his turf — together with a deliberate windmill farm off Lengthy Island’s coast and potential lithium-ion battery storage amenities.
“We don’t want battery storage facilities in Nassau. We don’t want wind turbines off Nassau. We don’t want power lines for these facilities running through Nassau,” Blakeman informed The Submit forward of a press convention Wednesday in Lengthy Seashore towards the aforementioned tasks.
He can be joined by members of the group Shield Our Coast Lengthy Island.
Blakeman is concentrating on an enormous wind energy venture in federal waterways 15 miles off the coast of Lengthy Seashore referred to as Empire Wind 1.
President Trump issued an govt order on his first day in workplace blocking or pausing all new wind power leasing in federal waterways.
However Norway-based Equinor had already obtained all the required federal lease and allow approvals from the feds to erect 54 large wind generators earlier than the ban went into impact, The Submit reported.
Building laying the inspiration for the generators is underway.
Equinor will ship the ability by connecting to Con Edison’s electrical grid through a cable hyperlink from the ocean flooring to the substation on the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in Sundown Park.
However Republican Blakeman — a pal of Trump who’s eying a run for governor subsequent 12 months — argued that windmills destroy aquatic life and birds and harm the native fishing business.
“I’m opposed to the Empire Wind project. Long Island gets the burden and none of the benefits,” he stated.
Blakeman can be taking goal at new lithium-ion battery storage amenities — which have been cropping up throughout the Huge Apple to the ire of locals who worry they might spark poisonous infernos in residential neighborhoods.
Blakeman and his fireplace marshal declare the lithium-battery storage warehouses are a harmful fireplace hazard.
“There’s no way to extinguish these fires. You have to let them burn out,” Blakeman stated.
“Such an explosion could put a whole neighborhood on fire.”
Underneath the Local weather Act, New York should scale back greenhouse gasoline emissions 40% by 2030 and have 100% zero-emission electrical energy by 2040.
Guidelines require New York to generate 9,000 megawatts of offshore wind power by 2035, 6,000 megawatts of photo voltaic power by 2025 and construct 3,000 megawatts of power storage by 2030.
