Watch: Carp Bluffs Imperiled, Wind Farm Torpedoed, Sable Oil Enabled; Elxn Update - Council, Joe-Melinda
In a new episode, Newsmakers TV's All-Star Panel of Top Local Journalists offers a guided tour of the environment beat and all the latest from the campaign trail.
As a blockbuster Builder’s Remedy development looms over the Carpinteria Bluffs, the Trump Administration squelched a high-profile Central Coast wind project, while a rogue offshore oil outfit doubled down on thumbing its nose at California state and local government.
On this week’s episode of Newsmakers TV, SB Independent staff reporter Callie Fausey returns with a reprise of recent reporting on these simmering stories from the local environmental beat - plus one more Mother Nature-related matter:
Josh Molina joins the conversation, sharing insights, anecdotes and gossip from the campaign trail, as the once-obscure race for SB County Assessor-Clerk-Recorder-Elections chief heats up, and a smiling face from the past returns to gin up the District 4 city council race to succeed mayoral front-runner Kristen Sneddon.
Plus: the genial host explains what socialism actually is, so even the right-wing loons at SB Current can understand it.
All this and more, right here, right now on Newsmakers TV.
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P.S. Of all the Trump Administration’s peabrained and pig-ignorant crackpot policies, the decision to pull the plug on the Golden State Wind project off Morro Bay - and then pay the developers not to produce energy! — ranks right up there, as Callie’s reporting shows.
What’s worse is that it’s just one of many such projects across the nation which have been ruined for no rational reason, other than the increasingly senile president’s personal distaste for wind energy because of a beef he had with the government of Scotland over the views from one of his golf courses, or something.
Charlotte Rampell has more, in a must-read Bulwark piece that details the scope of the destruction being wrought on business by the “conservative” reality TV host.
“In the midst of an energy crisis, the Trump administration is paying companies to not build more energy infrastructure.
“You read that correctly.
“The Trump administration is proudly shelling out almost $2 billion in exchange for agreements from developers to halt wind projects that were already in the works. These projects—wind farms off the coasts of New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, and California—would have generated enough electricity to power roughly 3-4 million households once they came online.
“What pot of taxpayer money this payoff comes from, and whether the payoffs are even legal, remain open questions. Even lawmakers don’t know the answers. But these companies should probably count themselves lucky. They got paid to shut down, after all.”
Image: A shark chases a foil surfer off Leadbetter Beach (Tavis Boise photo from the Santa Barbara Independent).