Pentagon cites ‘highly problematic’ issue with offshore wind farms in New Jersey, elsewhere

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April 18, 2023

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – The Department of Defense (DOD) has warned industry stakeholders that President Joe Biden’s push for offshore wind farms off the Atlantic coast would interfere with military operations in the region, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing an October 2022 letter from the DOD obtained by the outlet.

Both the Navy and Air Force said that it would be “highly problematic” to construct offshore projects — which are key to many east coast states’ climate goals — in large swathes of territory off the coast of New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, Bloomberg reported. This “problematic” territory totally encompassed four of the six potential wind lease areas set aside by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), while the remaining two areas required additional study, the Pentagon said, according to Bloomberg.

Pentagon cites 'highly problematic' issue with offshore wind farms in new jersey, elsewhere

One large wind farm off the coast of New Jersey has raised concerns after a large amount of whales and dolphins died since sonar testing began there in December.

Similar DOD concerns ultimately sunk plans for offshore oil leasing near Virginia around ten years ago, and delayed offshore wind plans off the coast of California for roughly three years starting in 2019, Bloomberg reported. BOEM told the outlet that it expected to resolve the DOD’s concerns in the Atlantic, noting that the two agencies had successfully identified “27 leases along the Atlantic coast, covering over 2.1 million acres.”

The Biden administration has stepped up its support of offshore wind farms in recent months, despite concerns from some environmental groups that the projects could be linked to a series of unusual whale and dolphin deaths in the region.

The DOD and BOEM did not immediately respond to a Daily Caller News Foundation request for comment.

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Report by John Hugh DeMastri on April 17, 2023; localization by Phil Stilton.

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