So wind is racist now?
A senior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) official consulted climate activists about finding legal justification for the agency's push to get developers to invest in "underserved communities," according to communications obtained by Protect the Public's Trust.
Marissa Knodel, a senior adviser at BOEM who formerly worked for eco-advocacy group Earthjustice, sought the advice of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Ocean Conservancy, two environmental activist groups, in 2021. Knodel was looking for a legal explanation as to how encouraging offshore wind developers to invest in "underserved communities" aligns with BOEM's mission, the discovered emails reveal.
Specifically, Knodel wanted to find a legal strategy to make sure that offshore wind bidding credits — which are commitments from developers to do things like support workforce development programs — would support "underserved communities" in ways that align with BOEM's mandate to pursue "orderly and expeditious" offshore wind development. Functionally, the bidding credits can increase the value of a developers' bid because the developer commits to engaging in certain activities, according to the Regional Economic Action Coalition, a California-focused economic development and research organization.
It comes down to virtue signaling on top of the virtue signaling. The Biden administration bends over backwards just to cater to a segment of the population that really hasn't asked for help in order to avoid being branded racist while trying to make sure fossil fuel companies don't benefit. In the end. Unsurprisingly, no one (including environmentalists) could come up with a solution. But they have to soon or else they could be branded as racists by anti-racist or woke activists.
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