I can't keep up with the okays and giveaways blasting out of the White House in the waning days of the faux presidency. Whoever is making the decisions is doing so at breakneck speed, with zero heed to dollars and sense (and I mean that just as I wrote, so don't @ me, comment nannies).

The Environmental Protection Agency's green loan handouts have come so fast and furious, with little heed for proper oversight or on-the-book regulation adherence, that the agency's Inspector General (IG) was forced to send a letter telling the Loan Program Office (LPO) to ixnay the giveaways until they got their act together.

...These easy-going types are fired up, starting to scrutinize paperwork and connections and using Washington warning words like 'reckless.'

The Biden administration is in a hurry to finalize more than a dozen green energy loans worth more than $25 billion before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in mid-January—a frantic effort that lawmakers and industry officials are warning could lead to fraud and abuse of taxpayer money.

Through the Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office, the administration is working to finalize a total of 16 pending loans worth a total of $25.1 billion, a Washington Free Beacon analysis found. Those loans figure to be in serious jeopardy—Trump repeatedly vowed to "terminate" green energy spending on the campaign trail—and, in recent weeks, Biden officials have picked up the pace finalizing pending commitments...

The response the IG received back from the LPO boiled down to "Don't bother us, we're busy." They truly are, as they keep writing checks and looking for more Green grifters to take all those tax dollars of yours off their hands.

I hope they all go to jail in a month and a half.

Another side of the climate cult Biden is throwing out lifelines to is renewable energy projects, approving them without doing the comprehensive and exhaustive due diligence required by their own statutes and regulations. You know, to protect the environment.

Just yesterday, in my piece about the two successful actions against the proposed Maryland offshore wind project, I noted that Ocean City, MD's October lawsuit had been filed after the project's approval by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). Again, in a rush to beat a possible incoming Trump administration cutting the legs out from under the Skijack 1 and II offshore farms, the BOEM, the lawsuit documents, blew right through every oversight measure in their own rules and regulations.

The city and its partners may well have them dead to rights.

Another problematic offshore wind farm I've documented extensively since it first burst onto the scene months ago is the Vineyard Wind project just off the Nantucket, Massachusetts coast. That's the one where a brand-new, not even in service yet, football field long, single turbine blade shredded and proceeded to crap up the waters and beaches of the island last July.

Tiny razor-sharp shards of fiberglass, toxic fluids and chemicals, and various floating chunks from cooler to boat-sized fiberglass and styrofoam.

It wasn't only Nantucket that was affected - ocean currents are unhelpful that way.

The catastrophic failure also exposed the hidden issues in GEs blade manufacturing and cooked-books testing regimen as well as proving that all the rosy promises from the wind developer were so much hooey. 

Intrepid chronicler of the Vineyard fiasco, resident Mary Chalk, is still documenting debris washing up daily - from a single, failed blade. They're planning for 84 turbines with three each.

12/20/24 More pollution washing up, downwind of Vineyard Wind construction site. Yellow foam shavings observed from Miacomet Beach to Smith Pt. , Nantucket Island, south shore. This is unacceptable! #mapoli #whales #climate #seafood #nantucketconservation pic.twitter.com/AXQyo6npPx

— Mary Chalke (@ChalkeMary40147) December 20, 2024

They restarted installing them a week ago.

Blade installation at Vineyard Wind resumes tomorrow pic.twitter.com/CNmIkgHoMT

— Nantucket Current (@ACKCurrent) December 14, 2024

Good luck, y'all.

Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and towns all around the Cape are up in arms, with many of the communities actively pursuing lawsuits. The tide has turned against the big towers as other wind projects in the cape find themselves the target of lawsuits.

With all the angst and turmoil surrounding what's quickly becoming an outright rejection of wind in their backyard and a palpable sense of anger at any politician who is still advocating for one in their formerly pristine backyard, it would seem the head of the Democratic party might want to forgo agitating the natives any further.

Then again, maybe not.

So this was a slick move today by whoever was in charge

Guaranteed to make friends and influence voters out on the island and the Cape.

Each turbine will stand 1,066 feet tall - even higher than Vineyard Wind's turbines, which are 853 feet tall. pic.twitter.com/x1ftfxjWW2

— Nantucket Current (@ACKCurrent) December 20, 2024

HOLY SMOKES

They're 'racing' to put offshore wind 'on a solid footing' before Trump comes in like a wrecking ball.

Racing to put the offshore wind industry on a sound footing before the close of the Biden administration, the Department of the Interior today approved what will become the eleventh large-scale offshore wind farm off the coastal United States. The project known as SouthCoast Wind will generate 2.4 GW of offshore wind energy for Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The notice of availability of the Joint Record of Decision comes after Massachusetts issued approvals in October and the two states selected the project for long-term power contracts.

The project which is being developed by OW Ocean Winds, a joint venture partnership between EDP Renewables and ENGIE, won its lease in 2018 and was originally known as Mayflower Wind. The project area covers just over 127,000 acres and will be about 26 nautical miles south of Martha’s Vineyard and 20 nautical miles south of Nantucket, Massachusetts.

The project, as approved, includes the construction of up to 141 wind turbine generators and up to five offshore substation platforms located at a maximum of 143 positions, and up to eight offshore export cables. The Department of Interior highlights however, the approval removes up to six wind turbine positions in the northeastern portion of the Lease Area to reduce potential impacts on foraging habitat and potential displacement of wildlife from the habitat adjacent to Nantucket Shoals.

Cynic that I am, I think they're 'racing' to get money into fellow grifters' hands, maybe assure themselves of a cushy little industry gig when Trumpsters boot their asterisks out, and that's the sum of it.

But I'm just stabbing in the dark here.

Cynic that I am.