“Hey, hey. Ho, ho. Offshore wind has got to go!”
So chanted a group of demonstrators, organized by CFACT, outside the Dominion Energy 
office building in downtown Richmond, VA on Friday. The demonstrators were upset by the giant utility’s rush to construct a colossal wind farm off Virginia Beach. The project would will place 176 giant turbines, stretching over 40 miles out to sea. The turbines would lie directly in the migration path of highly endangered right whales.
“Dominion Energy’s wind farm is a disgrace,” said CFACT President Craig Rucker, “It is a threat to national security, will jack up costs to ratepayers, destabilize the grid, and harm marine mammals. It needs to be stopped!”
The CFACT demonstration was carried out in cooperation with organizations belonging to the National Opposition to Offshore Wind Association (NOOA). NOOA called for a “Day of Action” to take place in and around January 19th to “End It!. ” They are demanding an end to America’s offshore wind mistake, while there is still time.
“We will all be saying “END IT!” in no uncertain terms with one unified voice,” said Mandy 
Davis, president of NOOA. She explained, “the reasons for organizing a nationwide OSW opposition action are numerous and varied, but the main impetus for protesting at this juncture is to remind our incoming administration that there are millions of coastal citizens that are negatively impacted by the offshore wind industry and that we are looking to our new president and his cabinet to do as they have promised… to END IT!”
President Trump wrote on Truth Social that he does not “want even one built during my administration,” calling them the “most expensive energy” that only works “with massive government subsidies, which we will no longer pay.”
New Jersey Congressman Jeff Van Drew recently called President-elect Trump and asked him to halt offshore wind turbine construction. President Trump agreed saying, “yeah we definitely do. I agree. I’m against them… write an executive order, get it to my people.”
Van Drew sent a draft executive order and emailed it to former North Dakota governor Doug Burgum whom Trump as nominated to serve as Secretary of the Interior.
“Van Drew said the draft is written to halt offshore wind development from Rhode Island to Virginia for six months so the incoming Interior secretary could review how leases and permits were issued. Van Drew said he believes the approvals did not fully take into account the impact on the fishing industry, tourism, whales or Americans’ utility bills, and it’s problematic to rely on foreign renewable energy companies building the wind farms.”
Van Drew’s approach is in line with CFACT’s lawsuit which calls for a halt to Dominion’s offshore wind project and seeks to have America’s bureaucratic watchdogs perform full due diligence in evaluating the impact of offshore wind projects. The approval process appears to have been rushed by a Biden Administration that was anxious to erect turbines as quickly as possible.
CFACT hopes President Trump will hear the protester’s message loud and clear and take commanding action to protect marine mammals, our fisheries and America’s electric grid from President Biden’s massive offshore wind mistake.