03 Sep, 2024 Winning by losing. The strategy of the NIMBYs and others trying to thwart wind energy. By Jeff Porter Allie Reed of Bloomberg Law has published a thought-provoking piece on the effect of legal challenges to offshore wind projects and the...
22 Jul, 2024 Reading about failed turbine blades & "alkalinity enhancement"? Well we've dealt ourselves a lousy climate hand and don't have the luxury of folding. By Jeff Porter Two Boston Globe stories I read this weekend on the rapidly shrinking island of Nantucket this weekend are worthy of your attention. ...
12 Jun, 2024 Brian McGrory has a good point about the resolution of the Nantucket Clam Shack NIMBY controversy, but there's another lesson to be learned here By Jeff Porter Some of you may recall my earlier reports on Nantucket NIMBYs' efforts to deny local Chef Gabriel Frasca the opportunity to deliver fried...
14 Nov, 2023 Our pressing need for renewable energy is spurring all kinds of innovation, not all of it good, as The Boston Globe reports today. By Jeff Porter Our climate emergency has spurred all kinds of innovation around alternatives to the combustion of fossil fuels to generate energy. ...
08 Aug, 2023 The Nantucket NIMBY's Clam Shack suit and the Martha's Vineyard NIMBY's Vineyard Wind suit seem to be over but these 2 rights don't negate the wrong! By Jeff Porter The dog days of summer are apparently seeing the end of NIMBY lawsuits brought by Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard residents; the former...
28 Jul, 2023 So not only are NIMBYs delaying our essential transition to renewable energy, they're also taking lots of money out of our pockets! By Jeff Porter The Boston Globe reports that the cost of the critically important New England Clean Energy Connect project increased by over 50 percent...
10 Apr, 2023 The Bay State's ability to meet its greenhouse gas reduction goals is now in the hands of a Maine jury. Does that make any sense to you? By Jeff Porter Seems like just yesterday that the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled on New England Clean Energy Connect's challenge to the retroactive...
25 Jan, 2023 This NIMBY lawsuit is doomed but that doesn't mean that it won't cause considerable harm before it dies. By Jeff Porter Yesterday the Nantucket Residents Against Turbines were in Federal Court arguing the merits of their last ditch effort to stop the...
08 Sep, 2022 More on New England Clean Energy Connect's challenges and what they say about our ability to transition to renewable energy By Jeff Porter Benjamin Storrow's story in E&E News on the challenges faced by the New England Clean Energy Connect project is worth a read. He reports...