For the second time, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities has rejected a proposal to build five windmill turbines off the coast, in sight of our historic Atlantic City Boardwalk.

The Obama administration’s Department of Energy would have none of it, and has surreptitiously pledged $47 million of your dollars to pay a Chinese company, Xiangtan Electric Manufacturing Group, to build the project. The department doesn’t care if ordinary New Jerseyans are opposed to it, as long as Jeff Tittel, of the New Jersey Sierra Club, is on board.

Any casual observer of this administration’s forays into “green” energy can expect that the first kilowatt will not come ashore for years, if ever, and will cost American taxpayers several times the current project estimate of $188 million. Also, expect that any electricity, if actually delivered by the turbines, will cost multiple times what we pay PSE&G for a kilowatt hour. Not to mention the complete decimation of the birds that use the near-shore migration flyby.

One wonders why a Chinese wind turbine company isn’t busy building such projects in China. The answer is that the Chinese government isn’t interested in such energy boondoggles since it is, on average, building a coal-fired power plant every week to support its expanding economy. China leaves the “renewable energy” fiascoes to the West. It’s almost as big a hoax as “climate change,” also known as “global warming.”

After seven years, we can’t even get the Keystone XL pipeline turned on.

Eugene Boyle