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Oh, daggum, I lurves ending a Friday on a high note.
And this is a good one.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said that the Maryland Department of Environment (MDE) improperly issued its final permit decision for the U.S. Wind offshore wind project off the coast of Ocean City. https://t.co/D33eCnEgCS
— FOX Baltimore (@FOXBaltimore) July 11, 2025
SQUEEEEE!!!!!!!
This past January, while updating the status of the lawsuit the Maryland towns and counties involved in this massive US Wind project had filed against the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Biden administration for what they alleged was 'fast-tracking' the permit process, I detailed how the wind developer was pulling all the stops out to shove the project down their throats. Like a behemoth Tony Soprano, the company was filing request after request for documents, texts, and emails in a heavy-handed manner to bleed resources and 'scare the crap' out of local officials, some of whom they threatened by name with legal action for their opposition.
Today's letter from the EPA to the Secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment effectively puts the squelch on the development for *checks notes* fast-tracking the permit process has to be such sweet vindication music to those intrepid turbine fighters along the DelMarva Coast.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified an error in the Maryland Department of the Environment’s (MDE) final permit decision for the Maryland Offshore Wind Project being developed by U.S. Wind, Inc. (US Wind) located approximately 10 nautical miles off the coast of Worcester County, Maryland on the outer continental shelf. 1
The Maryland state government is going to have to reissue the permit properly within thirty days and allow for an appeal, none of which happened when the project was originally and hastily blessed last fall.
If Maryland doesn't square it away, the whole thing could go under.
Congressman Andy Harris issued a statement Friday in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) determination that the Maryland Department of Environment (MDE) improperly issued its final permit decision for the U.S. Wind offshore wind project off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland.
The EPA outlined multiple legal errors in the agency’s approval approval of the U.S. Wind permit in a letter issued to MDE Secretary Serena McIlwain.
Those errors include providing misleading information about the public’s right to appeal under federal law.
The EPA is now requiring MDE to reissue the permit in accordance with proper federal procedures.
If left uncorrected, it could lead to the invalidation of the permit on appeal.
'Misleading the public' - do tell.
In actuality, it could anyway, because now the citizens affected by this monstrosity will have their appeal heard.
US Wind, and by extension, Maryland Gov Wes Moore, was already in hot water over the project, even with wind advocates, as none of their promises were coming to fruition.
...Meanwhile, Moore’s flagship offshore wind farm proposal has hardly broken ground on an Ocean City, Maryland, wind farm, according to an ABC7 News investigation. The contractor for the project, US Wind, has yet to hire any of the 550 steelworkers they promised to employ for the project, a United Steelworkers Union official said.
US Wind has yet to even start construction on a steel fabrication plant in Baltimore County crucial to developing the windmills for the wind farm, a company spokesperson told ABC7.
Back in 2023, the governor committed to a plan for 100% renewable energy by 2035. Moore signed the Maryland Promoting Offshore Wind Energy Resource, or Maryland POWER Act, in 2023, setting a production goal of 8.5 gigawatts of power by offshore wind by 2031. The project was also estimated to create 12,000 jobs full-time jobs within the state.
At this stage in the renewables scam, big talk, little do shouldn't be surprising anyone, nor the fact that it's all a big smokescreen to vacuum up Green dollars.
U.S. Wind is not an American company. It’s an Italian company that cleverly put ‘US’ in their name.
— Rep. Andy Harris, MD (@RepAndyHarrisMD) July 10, 2025
They don’t care about the United States.
All they care about are the subsidies that flow to offshore wind and making profits from those subsidies. pic.twitter.com/tEAFAE1MZZ
More and more people are beginning to hear the sucking sound.
Questions are mounting about the feasibility, affordability, and blackout risks due to @GovWesMoore's green energy agenda, following the discovery that a key offshore wind turbine factory has yet to be built in Baltimore.
— Gary M. Collins (@realgarycollins) July 11, 2025
MD's offshore wind project will cost ratepayers $11.5B+ pic.twitter.com/WnlglSH9mf
Now that Zeldin's EPA has had a chance to go over the permitting process and found errors right off the bat, chances are there's much hidden yet to come to light that could sink this thing permanently on the appeals process. That's if Maryland reissues the permit to begin with.
The town of Ocean City won the right to go forward with its lawsuit against the project last week.
...Another blow was dealt to the windmills project on July 3, when a U.S. district judge allowed for a lawsuit against the federal government’s approval of the project to proceed. The lawsuit was filed by the town of Ocean City, as well as groups representing fishing and business interests along the Delmarva Peninsula.
“The whole basis of that lawsuit is that the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management really didn’t do their due diligence in approving these projects because there are so many interactions with commercial fisheries, with navigation, with potential defense conflict, marine mammal effects. I mean, the list goes on and on,” Harris said.
In a statement, Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan applauded the judge’s decision.
“As we have stated for over eight years, this project threatens to devastate our tourism industry, commercial and recreational fishing sectors, and poses risks to national defense,” he said.
So they're not backing down in the face of the developer's thuggery nor the governor's climate cult obsession. As I said, today's decision does nothing but bolster the lawsuit's case that the permitting ran roughshod over every regulation and procedure in order to get approval in the bag before the November election.
POTATUS and auto-pens were hedging their bets for their big buck buddies.
Going forward, I suppose it all depends on how much the company kicks and screams, and how much more turbine-scrambled egg Moore wants blown on his face about what happens from here.
Happy Friday!
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