Nassau County exec to launch campaign against green energy initiatives like windmills, lithium-ion battery facilities

Not successful Bruce’s backyard!

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is ramping up his campaign against greenish energy connected his turf — including a planned windmill workplace disconnected Long Island’s seashore and imaginable lithium-ion artillery retention facilities.

“We don’t privation artillery retention facilities successful Nassau. We don’t privation upwind turbines disconnected Nassau. We don’t privation powerfulness lines for these facilities moving done Nassau,” Blakeman told The Post up of a property league Wednesday successful Long Beach against the aforementioned projects.

He volition beryllium joined by members of the radical Protect Our Coast Long Island.

In a statement, Blakeman said, “We don’t privation artillery retention facilities successful Nassau. We don’t privation upwind turbines disconnected Nassau. We don’t privation powerfulness lines for these facilities moving done Nassau.” Dennis A. Clark

Blakeman is targeting a monolithic upwind powerfulness task successful national waterways 15 miles disconnected the seashore of Long Beach called Empire Wind 1.

President Trump issued an enforcement order connected his archetypal time successful bureau blocking oregon pausing each caller upwind vigor leasing successful national waterways.

But Norway-based Equinor had already obtained all the indispensable national lease and licence approvals from the feds to erect 54 elephantine upwind turbines earlier the prohibition went into effect, The Post reported.

Construction laying the instauration for the turbines is underway.

Equinor volition present the powerfulness by connecting to Con Edison’s electrical grid via a cablegram nexus from the water level to the substation astatine the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal successful Sunset Park.

But Republican Blakeman — a pal of Trump who is eying a tally for politician adjacent twelvemonth — argued that windmills destruct aquatic beingness and birds and wounded the section sportfishing industry.

“I’m opposed to the Empire Wind project. Long Island gets the load and nary of the benefits,” helium said.

Blakeman is besides taking purpose astatine caller lithium-ion artillery retention facilities — which person been cropping up crossed the Big Apple to the ire of locals who fearfulness they could spark toxic infernos successful residential neighborhoods.

The project, known arsenic Empire Wind 1, is simply a monolithic upwind powerfulness task that would beryllium acceptable successful national waterways 15 miles disconnected the seashore of Long Beach. Equinor/YouTube

Blakeman and his occurrence marshal assertion the lithium-battery retention warehouses are a unsafe occurrence hazard.

“There’s nary mode to extinguish these fires. You person to fto them pain out,” Blakeman said.

“Such an detonation could enactment a full vicinity connected fire.”

Under the Climate Act, New York indispensable trim greenhouse state emissions 40% by 2030 and person 100% zero-emission energy by 2040.

Rules necessitate New York to make 9,000 megawatts of offshore upwind vigor by 2035, 6,000 megawatts of star vigor by 2025 and physique 3,000 megawatts of vigor retention by 2030.