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For immediate release:

On June 6, a coalition of NGOs, independent scientists, and lawyers petitioned the federal government to terminate a half-billion-dollar Department of Transportation INFRA grant issued during the Biden administration to support the development of a floating offshore wind terminal/port in Humboldt Bay.

Share the facts at CFACT.org: https://www.cfact.org/2025/06/13/letter-to-feds-terminate-floating-wind-grant/This grant has been proven to be a misappropriation of funds and is now being called into question in accordance with the presidential Executive Order on offshore wind directing “all departments to assess prior approvals for deficiencies.”

If the grant is terminated, the plans for California’s planned floating offshore wind industry will be severely hamstrung and the future of the necessary industrial ports to service the controversial and experimental floating offshore wind industry will be negatively impacted. Currently there are 5 active federal leases on the Central and North Coasts of California: RWE Offshore Wind Holdings, California North Floating, Equinor/Atlas Wind U.S., Golden State Wind, and Invenergy California Offshore, with numerous others planned for the future in an effort to reach the governor’s and AB 525 project goals of 35 gigawatts of output and the leasing of a total of 4,483 square miles of coastal waters to offshore wind developers by the year 2045.

The floating offshore wind industry is highly controversial and contested, and the technology is largely untested and undeveloped. Development of industrial ports on the California Coast in areas that are highly dependent on fishing, tourism, and various ocean user industries and are not conducive to ocean industrialization is a strategy that Governor Newsom and the proponents of AB 525 will find to be more difficult than they ever imagined. Offshore wind is THE most expensive energy source in the world…one that demands nonexistent infrastructure, necessitates the kind of support, building costs, and operational hazards that prove the claims of “green, reliable, and sustainable” mischaracterizations, and will ultimately prove the industry to be an unsuitable match for California’s burgeoning energy needs.

A copy of the letter sent to the Department of Transportation, the Department of the Interior, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and the Department of Energy is attached.