Sea Change USA

 

We want to clarify and enlighten the public regarding the nuts and bolts of electricity costs and generation capacity using the N.E. coastal states and CA as examples.

Attorney Maureen Koetz has advised various groups in NY, NJ and New England on the subject of the adequacy of electric supply state-wide and nationally. She was former Ass’t Sect’y of the Air Force Re: DOE. She has expert experience surrounding the US electricity and nuclear energy field.

The sampling of information herein attempts to reveal the misconceptions regarding what Green Energy can really produce and what it cannot relative to the North Eastern coastal states as well as the great need for electricity in CA, especially for both its agriculture – water distribution – as well as for Silicon Valley and the emerging needs of A.I.

The current political climate combined with the inter-dependency of the country on a viable CA economy makes this information particularly critical now. A stable and reliable grid is essential for America’s economy and future security as a nation.

 

Big Oil and investors almost exclusively foreign have fraudulently raided our Inflation Reduction Act and subsidies, enriching themselves, leaving the US with unsustainably higher electricity, higher tax bills, un-recyclable obsolete inferior technology, destroying our coasts, endangering our national security and food supplies.

The people, the 99% the lower and middle class, the working poor; anyone economically challenged. The black and tan, minorities in urban slums, rural low income workers, urban dwellers, workers in the police, fire departments, schools, mass transit users, all common American rate payers, small businesses, farmers. Electricity is used to pump water throughout the west and is critical to emergency response teams, food production; ad infinitum. The intention of this technology is to provide environmental justice to historically disadvantaged populations who have been targeted by Big Oil’s ruthless business practices; it doesn’t.

• This can not and will never make enough electricity to power California or any other interconnected state.
• The cost of living will go through the roof and the government will have to subsidize electricity like the UK.
• Government leases of sovereign water to foreign countries cause irreparable damage to American marine food supplies.
• Industrializing our coastlines with thousand foot high turbines imperils our national security. Our coast guard is being compromised by private and foreign interests.
• Runaway thermal fires from lithium battery storage and high voltage cables to beaches endanger lives and leave long term toxicity.

Big Oil mostly foreign, pretending to be Green and Sustainable has been picking everyone’s pockets for generations to come up with higher electricity and taxes, leaving pollution and un-recyclable wreckage in its wake; with the blessings of Federal, State and local governments.

Local impacts to neighborhoods, city and county budgets, from  inefficient vulnerable national grid caused by turbines that ineffectively produce intermittent unreliable electricity from the shorelines, leads to blackouts health risks, loss of life and unaffordable electricity.

The country depends on California’s ability to maintain viability without depending even more on other states’ electricity.

 

 

 

 

 

Maureen Koetz, Esq.

Planet A* Strategies

Cancelling Offshore Wind Leases (PA_S Report)

Chief Sustainability Officer | Policy Expert

Director of Environmental Policy | Nuclear Energy Institute

Attorney | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Counsel | U.S. Senate Committee On Energy And Natural Resources

Acting Assistant Secretary, Installations, Environment and Logistics | United States Air Force.

Meghan Lapp

Industry representative Seafreeze, Ltd. one of the NE Fisheries and participant in a recent Supreme Court Case.

Mandy Davis

Biologist and founder of React Alliance

President of National Offshore Opposition Alliance.

Bonnie Brady

Executive Director: Long Island Commercial Fishing Association.

Board of Directors:  RODA Responsible Offshore Development Alliance.

Elizabeth (Lisa) Quattrocki Knight MD, Ph.D

Green Oceans Team

Kiernan Kelly

Ocean Integrity Group

Highly informed re: plastics in our oceans and effects of mismanaged environmental  programs.

Jerry Leeman

New England Fisheries Stewardship Association

Robert Bryce

Author and spokesman of Energy Transition, offshore wind from Texas.

Max Elbert

Pacific Northwest group against Off Shore Wind.

Co-author; “Bright Green Lies,” How the Environment Movement Lost Its Way And What We Can Do About It.

Lisa Linowes

“An Investigation of Large Whale Mortality and Offshore Wind Development Activity in the U.S. Since 2015.”

Robert Rand

Acoustic expert Robert Rand on how NOAA, take permits, and Environmental Impact Statements.

Rand Acoustics, LLC

Craig Rucker

President and Co-Founder of CFACT

Deep Rising

We are a team of passionate individuals from diverse backgrounds, united by our commitment to protecting and preserving the deep ocean for future generations.

World Resources Institute

WRI brings together nearly 1,900 staff and experts who are leaders in their fields. Their work spans topics such as food and land use, energy, cities, economics, finance, governance and more. Our staff and researchers work globally and in 12 focus countries to meet people’s essential needs, to protect and restore nature, and to stabilize the climate and build resilient communities.

Protect Our Coast New Jersey

We are residents, homeowners, business owners, fishermen and visitors of the New Jersey coastal communities with one goal, stop the development of offshore wind energy off the coast of New Jersey. We do not support the speed at which development is moving without comprehensive research evaluating the true effects on our environment, economy, tourism, fisheries, wildlife and coastal communities.

Save Long Beach Island

We are a group of citizens working together to save Long Beach Island and the ocean from the destructive impact of the proposed wind project, and offer sensible renewable energy alternatives. We are a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization and do not endorse any candidates or politicians, but we do aggressively pursue programs, policies, and actions to protect the Island. See our fact-based research, keep informed, and find out how you can help us.

Defend Brighton Beach

As a result of misleading information and lack of public awareness regarding the proposed wind Atlantic Shores and Orsted industrial wind farm projects off of the Brigantine coastline, we formed Defend Brigantine Beach on December 18, 2022 to educate the community about the offshore wind projects and their associated impacts to the environment, marine life, tourism, the seashore economies, and the health and well-being of our community residents and visitors.

ACK for Whales

ACK for Whales (ACK4WHALES) is a group of Nantucket community members who are concerned about the negative impacts of offshore wind development off the south shores of our beloved Island. The MA/RI wind area is bigger than the state of Rhode Island and will ultimately be occupied by 2,400 turbines, each taller than the John Hancock building in Boston, connected by thousands of miles of high voltage cables. There are many unanswered questions, and the permitting of these massive utility projects has happened largely out of the public eye. We provide a community group of neighbors and friends, who all love the same place.

Save The East Coast

Save the East Coast Inc. is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit ocean environmental advocacy group based in New Jersey. Our mission is to protect the ocean and the diverse life it sustains, along with our coastal ecosystems and communities, from the harms and costs of offshore wind and ocean industrialization.

Protect Our Coast Long Island NY

We are committed to protecting every inch of Long Island’s coasts, be it the ocean or the sound as well as the natural communities and neighborhoods that surround them. The group seeks to identify, and mitigate or avoid, any adverse impacts that could result from the transmission line cables, substation(s) and other infrastructure.

From Environmental Progress:  “Thrown To The Wind”

Current Important Developments:

List Of 317 Wind Energy Rejections The Sierra Club Doesn’t Want You To See

Offshore Wind Provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act

The New Energy Transition: Why Offshore Wind in the Atlantic?

New York Bight Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement