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That means the initial projects on 14 offshore federal leases will be more expensive to build and produce costlier power — whether European equipment is used or its manufacture in America is developed.
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Using federal offshore leases, wind power projects along the East Coast, including off the shores of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut,...
Also at 10:30 a.m., the state Assembly will hold a public hearing to examine the impact of the proposed federal offshore natural gas and oil lease authorization on the state's environment, Legislative Auditorium, William H. Rogers Building, 725 Veterans Memorial Highway, Smithtown, Long Island.
The federal government has awarded nearly a dozen commercial offshore wind leases, including locations off the coasts of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia.
Release of the master plan comes as the federal government, even as it forges ahead on offshore wind leases, also has released plans to open nearly the entire U.S. coastline to oil and gas drilling.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is asking the federal government to extend the public comment period on proposed new lease sales for offshore wind in the New York Bight, a step that could delay the process for up to six months.
The plan includes the potential lease of acreage in federal offshore areas such as the Atlantic region.
What's next for offshore wind developers partly depends on any changes the Trump administration makes to the federal government's policy on leasing and permitting for wind farms, said Fara Courtney, an independent offshore wind consultant and founder of the U.S. Offshore Wind Collaborative.
Two offshore wind farms are proposed for the state for open water that has already been leased from the federal government.
Earlier this year, the Obama administration placed a three - year moratorium on federal coal leasing, and closed the entire East Coast and parts of the Arctic Ocean to offshore oil drilling.
The scientists are asking Obama to go even further and fully remove the Beaufort and Chukchi seas from the federal government's Outer Continental Shelf Leasing Program, which governs offshore oil leasing through 2022.
Summerland Offshore Oil Field is a separate field in the Santa Barbara Channel about one and a half miles offshore, but within the 3 - mile limit inside of which oil leasing is subject to state rather than federal regulation.
In order to drill in offshore federal waters, companies bid on leases that grant them the rights to oil and gas production.
The discovery comes with the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) nearing completion of its new five - year offshore leasing program, which will blueprint federal lease sales from 2017 - 2022.
With the Obama administration's decision not to include the Atlantic in the next federal offshore leasing program, let's connect some dots that put this unfortunate decision in a fuller context — one where the administration is choosing retreat instead of progress with its energy strategy.
This includes announcing a withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, repealing the Clean Power Plan, rolling back vehicle fuel economy standards, attempting to rescind rules on methane emissions from oil and gas production on federal lands, ending the moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands, and opening additional offshore areas to oil and gas leasing.
In a move to spur renewable energy developments in the outer continental shelf, the federal government has issued five exploratory leases to five offshore wind energy companies.
In its draft leasing plan that will set the boundaries for oil development in federal waters from 2017 to 2022, the Obama Administration proposed allowing offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast between Virginia and Georgia.
Today's announcement builds on BOEM's work to foster offshore renewable energy development through a collaborative state - federal process to identify Wind Energy Areas and hold competitive lease sales.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the federal regulator that oversees offshore wind development, announced plans to publish two major documents that close in on eventual offshore wind leasing.
With President - elect Donald Trump pledging to expand offshore drilling, a coalition of environmental groups called on President Obama to permanently protect federal waters from expanded oil leasing.
Also newsworthy is the Trump Administration's capricious process for public participation and comment on the release of a draft 5 - year plan for outer continental shelf offshore drilling in U.S. federal waters, including Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's back - and - forth exemption of Florida and the inclusion of Arctic leases.
All existing Federal oil and gas leases within the expanded offshore State seaward boundaries shall continue unchanged by the provisions of this Act, except as otherwise provided herein.
That's why it's critically important for robust planning now, starting with the government's 2017 - 2022 offshore oil and natural gas leasing program that's currently being put together by federal officials.
The Obama administration's decision last week to eliminate the Atlantic from the next federal offshore leasing plan is a step backward for American energy policy.
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The Governor recently announced NYSERDA has been selected by the federal government to compete for the right to develop a commercial offshore wind energy lease of 79,000 acres approximately 12 nautical miles off the Long Island coast.
House legislation requiring a new federal offshore leasing plan that includes areas off South Carolina and Virginia is the best way to create new access to federal oil and natural gas resources sooner rather than later.
The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is scheduled to hold a public hearing today in Wilmington, N.C., on its draft five - year offshore oil and natural gas leasing program.