sigh…N.J. lawmakers pushing wind farms
TRENTON — Lawmakers joined with environmentalists Monday to call on New Jersey to be the first state to build offshore wind farms that provide enough energy to power more than 450,000 homes per year.
On the eve of of Earth Day, the group endorsed an initiative to create 1,750 megawatts of energy by 2020 through the country’s first offshore wind farm off the New Jersey coast. The plan exceeds the goals set out in the draft released last week of the new energy master plan, which calls for at least 1,000 megawatts by 2020.
Assemblyman John McKeon, D-Essex, said the more aggressive initiative puts the state on track to meet the goals laid out in the Global Warming Response Act, which calls for a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of 20 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050.
Yeah, why shouldn’t NJ invest in wind farms? They’re not in serious economic peril or anything due to the reckless, unbridled spending of the Democratic administration and legislature or anything! Yea. Build a wind farm and all of our problems will go away!
That liberal/progressive agenda is really working in NJ!
how are wind farms liberal?
Umm… because they’re against the death penalty?
NJ is trying to recover from the credit card administration of Christie Whitman who borrowed and spent like nobody’s business.
The first east coast state to jump on the offshore windfarm wagon has the chance to become ground zero of an important new industry. An industry that is going to pay folks way better than the close to minimum wage A Bundy is lucky to make. And, of course, it is our wingnuts who are all about scaring off new industry.
New Jersey may have an easier time of it than we are here because their major utility (PSE&G) is actually bidding to build the wind farm themselves.
Pandora – yours was the best line I’ve read anywhere all day.
*blush*
They’re not in serious economic peril or anything due to the reckless, unbridled spending of the Democratic administration
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talk out of your own….
they are up shit’s creek in NJ
Corzine wants to sell toll roads and eliminate state AG dept….not what we want for DE.
Good for Jersey. I like our plan with private funding and rigorous economic analysis. Maybe that’s the problem the Democrat senate has…It is not a government program.
I love the part about FIVE bids.
Gee….in Dellywhere, liberals can only count to ONE!
And How will ” Befany -Hall Long”
vote on this issue? Once she becomes a Delaware State Senator??