NY/NJ Wind Power Update
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Marie French, who covers energy and the environment for Politico New York, and Ry Rivard, who covers energy, the environment and transportation in New Jersey for Politico, talk about the challenges to New York and New Jersey's wind energy projects and where they go from here.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lear on |
| 0:07.0 | on WNYC and now our climate story of the week which we do every Tuesday on the show. |
| 0:14.3 | We're doing that all this year. |
| 0:16.0 | Today, the state of wind energy projects in New York and New Jersey. |
| 0:20.8 | New Jersey set a goal to become one of the greatest states in the country for wind |
| 0:26.1 | through the use of offshore wind projects and in 2019 Governor Murphy |
| 0:31.0 | awarded Danish developer Orstead the largest offshore wind project in American history. |
| 0:37.0 | But here four years later, the developer has pulled out of those projects threatening the state's ambitious goals. |
| 0:44.3 | The biggest wind developer in New York State is called Equinor. |
| 0:48.8 | And it's been reported that that company lobbied hard to allow the city of Long Beach on the |
| 0:54.6 | South Shore to approve a transmission line through a particular park but |
| 0:59.4 | Governor Hockel vetoed that move. |
| 1:02.8 | So we're going to talk about wind projects coming |
| 1:05.6 | and going at what might yet still come, |
| 1:08.2 | and the politics of all of it, with Marie French |
| 1:11.2 | and Ryravard, who cover energy and the environment for |
| 1:14.4 | political in New York and New Jersey respectively. Marie, Ry, welcome to WNYC. |
| 1:19.9 | It's great to be here by me. Thank you. Glad to be here. Thank you. |
| 1:23.0 | Glad to be here. |
| 1:24.0 | And Marie, let me start with you because we've been talking more on the show recently |
| 1:29.0 | about the New Jersey cancellation of the Orstead wind farms off New Jersey. |
| 1:35.2 | So looking first at Long Beach, what happened there? |
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