St. John’s company planning to build wind turbine farm in waters off Stephenville – “clean, green energy,” costing less than 10 cents per kilowatt hour!

February 18, 2014 Canada, Offshore Wind/Industrialization

Beothuk Energy, based in St. John’s, announced ambitious plans last fall to build 30 gravity-based wind turbines in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It’s estimated they would generate 180 megawatts of “clean, green energy,” costing less than 10 cents per kilowatt hour to produce. Beothuk pegs the estimated cost of the project at about $400 million, funded entirely through private investment. Read more@cbcnews

Beothuk Energy, costing less than 10 cents per kilowatt hour, planning to build wind turbine farm

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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