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Related: About this forumMaine Offshore Wind Project Abandoned After Norwegian Energy Company Scraps $120 Million Plans
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/15/maine-offshore-wind-project_n_4101271.htmlThe company said in a statement that changes in terms with the state and scheduling delays "made the project outlook too uncertain to proceed." Statoil said it was focusing on a project in Scotland while continuing to explore the United States' offshore wind market.
Renewable energy industry officials, environmental groups and lawmakers said Tuesday that losing Statoil's project is a significant blow to the state's ability to cultivate an offshore wind industry and doesn't bode well for future investment in the state.
Crap.
bananas
(27,509 posts)Nihil
(13,508 posts)Instead of being a flagship, "leading the way" state with that project they will now be
just another time- & money-wasting Republican coastal state ... sigh ...
egold2604
(369 posts)hatrack
(59,587 posts)What an asshole.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
jpak
(41,758 posts)That blows.
yup
Champion Jack
(5,378 posts)Get out here! That can't be right
oldhippie
(3,249 posts)... to do the project, rather than foreigners? Wouldn't that be good?
GreenPartyVoter
(72,378 posts)FogerRox
(13,211 posts)and have approved the Atlantic Wind Connection over projects that are smaller.
This Maine wind farm is a farce anyway, running a 12 mile undersea cable is quite costly, environmental impact study, and only for 4 turbines... seems hardly worth the trouble. And for an immature tech like floating wind turbines, like this project, to be cancelled is much about nothing.
Now if the AWC folded, and its potential 1700 turbines, that would really be a blow to the offshore wind industry in the US.