Texas Land Commissioner Promises to Fight Biden’s Wind Farm
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is promising to push back against President Joe Biden’s proposed wind farm off the Galveston coast. Katy Marshall reports the Biden administration wants to designate 546,645 acres as a “Wind Energy Area.”
Texas Land Commissioner Promises to Fight Biden’s Galveston Wind Farm
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, a branch of the Department of the Interior, claims the project will produce enough energy to power 2.3 million homes.
Texas State Sens. Mayes Middleton (R–Galveston) and Drew Springer (R–Muenster) want to stop the project. They have advocated for a new law that would allow Buckingham to deny the Biden Administration permits for burying cables in Texas-controlled waters.
Buckingham has said the administration has failed to publish an Environmental Impact Statement, required under the National Environmental Policy Act. Further, she worries about the impact of a “nearly 900 square-mile field of abandoned wind turbines off our coast, degrading and leaching harmful substances into our ocean.”
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