Sep 03, 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...
Jun 24, 2024 Whenever this Supreme Court agrees to review a 9th Circuit interpretation of a law, the outcome is nearly certain. This NEPA case is no exception. By Jeff Porter This morning our nation's highest court agreed to hear an appeal by seven Utah Counties and a railroad company of a DC Circuit Court of...
Jun 12, 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...
Apr 25, 2024 ACK RAT's attempt to kill the Vineyard Wind Project ended exactly as we knew it would -- in defeat -- but not without damage. By Jeff Porter The First Circuit Court of Appeals has finally ended the Nantucket Residents Against Turbines' lawsuit against the United States Bureau...
Feb 26, 2024 Next week the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals will hear from opponents of the Vineyard Wind project and that brings to mind Irwin M. Fletcher. By Jeff Porter On March 5th, three Judges of the First Circuit Court of Appeals will hear from lawyers for residents of Nantucket who sued to stop the...
Feb 21, 2024 The Judge's decision vacating EPA's approval of Florida's "dredge and fill" permit authority has serious implications for our renewable energy future. By Jeff Porter Last week a DC Federal Judge vacated EPA's approval of the State of Florida's application to assume the Army Corps of Engineers'...
Nov 14, 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. ...
Nov 07, 2023 This never-ending NIMBY challenge to the Vineyard Wind project illustrates that we may be winning renewable energy battles but still losing the war. By Jeff Porter Over two years ago I wrote about a lawsuit filed by a Connecticut-based solar farm developer with a summer home in Martha's Vineyard...
Oct 06, 2023 Lessons we all should learn from the Great Salt Lake Crisis By Jeff Porter Those of us on the east coast have heard that the Great Salt Lake has receded to the verge of a public health crisis, including because...
Sep 26, 2023 ACKRat is asking the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the Vineyard Wind Project as time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'...into the future. By Jeff Porter The Nantucket Residents Against Turbines, or ACKRat, have asked the First Circuit Court of Appeals to find that the Federal Bureau of...
Aug 08, 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...
Jul 28, 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...
May 26, 2023 If you're sad about Sackett, you may be happier about Seafreeze By Jeff Porter About a year and a half ago I wrote about one of the four lawsuits brought in an attempt to halt the Vineyard Wind project (see...
May 19, 2023 Vineyard Wind has almost succeeded in ending one of the three NIMBY lawsuits against it but that's beside the point. By Jeff Porter ACK Rat's attempt to kill the Vineyard Wind project came closer to an unsuccessful end this week when Federal Judge Talwani granted a...
May 18, 2023 A renewable energy project is on the verge of having all the permits it needs, after SEVENTEEN years. What's next? By Jeff Porter The Wall Street Journal is reporting on the time it takes to permit an infrastructure project in these United States and what might be...
Apr 20, 2023 Those Maine Courts sure work quickly but we still need to remove the roadblocks in the way of our renewable energy future! By Jeff Porter The Boston Globe reports that a Maine jury has now determined that the developer of the New England Clean Energy Connect project relied...