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Locals thank Trump for halting costly, destructive offshore wind energy

January 24, 2025

Statement of REACT Alliance

REACT Alliance would like to thank President Trump for taking such a decisive stance on stopping the proliferation of offshore wind in the United States.

The halting of all new offshore wind permits will have a significant impact on the future of the industry in California and will make the costly onshore buildout for the extensive plans for new leases by our governor obsolete and absurd. We hope to see a complete reorganization of Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration as a result of the Department of Interior’s new directives, and eventually an elimination of all federal subsidies to the offshore wind industry.

We understands that the process of eliminating Offshore wind on all of our coastlines will be a lengthy and complex process but we at REACT Alliance are confident the new administration is up to the task.

REACT Alliance is a 501(c)(3) Tax-exempt Organization founded in San Luis Obispo. Our mission is to protect California’s Central Coasts from the destructive impacts of offshore wind energy development. We seek to educate the public, advocate for informed decision-making, mobilize the community, collaborate with governing officials, and pursue legal action when necessary.”


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The California Coastal Commission also needs to be disbanded. The current appointees have no credibility whatsoever.


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Decommissioned Rancho Seco and San Onofre are waiting to be started up again with the latest nuclear power technolog. Nuclear is the future, maybe fusion and hydrogen can be scaled. Wind is a costly waste.


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Why would anyone want to adapt any technology with as many problems as nukes? Besides being the most expensive, dangerous and inefficient way to generate power, there still exists no possibility of a storage scheme that would be guaranteed safe for the length of time that plutonium would remain deadly in amounts as small as one atom. That half-life is roughly 250,000 (quarter of a million) years. And then it is still lethal.


Not to mention that our coastline is a fault line. With rapidly melting glaciers, and the weight of that much water being shifted, it is without a doubt going to trigger seismic activity, which will include tsunamis at the coasts of the world. Did you know that Fukushima is still spewing radioactivity into our ocean uncontrollably?


How about making up some of the difference with onshore wind? The new “flower” design, which resembles an unopened tulip, is far more efficient, runs on much less and much more velocity of wind, can be grouped together much more closely and only gain in efficiency, will not likely harm any birds and are far, far cheaper. They are not the massive, unsightly, toxic and noisy behemoths that require huge infrastructure projects like the proposed debacle.


We can have a truly green project for a whole lot less money. That’s a win-win.


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So sad, closed-minded, self-centered and destructive. Cut off your nose to spite your face! I guess you will jump for joy when he opens Central Coast Pacific waters to oil drilling and future oil spills. Then we will be “cooking with gas”!


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There are few places that would safely allow drilling and a rig to be constructed, along the California coast, and those small areas have already been drilled.


Want to know how many active oil and gas rigs currently operate off the California coast? Are you sitting down, because this number is yuuuge:


Twenty two.


There is a 23rd, but it is a processing plant, not a pump or drill. And one rig in Huntington Beach doesn’t really count, because land was created around it as they filled in the lagoon, and they made it look like a regular house! Because of technology and advancements in drilling efficiency, fewer platforms are needed. Which is why the coastal hills of Goleta, Refugio, and Gaviota, nor even nearly all of the Los Angeles area coastline, are no longer festooned with rigs of all sorts, since these 22 offshore rigs on off our coast can handle all, and more, of the production that took thousands of rigs, in the past.


Self-centered and destructive? You would rather have hundreds of thousands of acres of land, if not millions, covered in windmills and solar panels that work, collectively, about 38% of the time. Including 400 square miles of whale migration routes, littered with floating windmills, that have proven to create less energy, than it took to build them….before they catch fire and dump hundreds of gallons of oil, tons of plastic, and more toxins than all the manufacturing to make them, into the ocean.


In other words, Trump can say and do what he wants, but the oil companies already know that all the drilling needed in California waters, has already been done.


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It’s unfortunate so many voters get brainwashed by the corrupt politicians and media. Follow the money my friend and you’ll figure out why these were pushed to get done without better research and planning.


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Check my post above. Neither science nor common sense was at play in the Morro Bay offshore wind scheme. It was a money grab, pure and simple, by an oil company when you dig into it far enough. I would prefer we have real, actual green and affordable, even money saving projects. Perhaps without a middleman profiteer with their hands in our pockets at every turn, and local control of who does and what gets done.


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I haven’t stopped jumping for joy since he won the election.


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