Source: ‘Nobody’s seen it’: An elusive report could drive… | Canary Media
A massive New York offshore wind project may soon be abandoned mid-construction due to a mysterious report that few people in Washington appear to have seen except Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, one Fox News reporter, and the scientists who apparently wrote it.
“Scientists at [the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] have revealed that the Biden administration’s rushed approval of the Empire Wind project was built on bad & flawed science,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum posted to X on April 21, five days after he issued a stop-work order that halted the Empire Wind 1 project and shocked the industry. His social media posts implied that findings from federal scientists at NOAA were the basis for the extreme measure. Construction can’t restart until the Interior Department performs “further reviews,” he wrote.
Those apparently damning NOAA findings, however, have not been made public. Burgum’s office did not respond to Canary Media’s requests to share them. Nor have they been shared with Equinor, the project developer. As of May 14, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, hadn’t seen them either, despite repeated requests. Even key members of Burgum’s own staff in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s renewable energy office have not seen it, Canary Media has learned.
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