{"id":2028875,"date":"2023-09-12T05:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T09:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-wants-to-shrink-tribal-marine-sanctuary-to-accommodate-wind-energy-factory-owned-by-dem-donor\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T05:24:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T09:24:15","slug":"biden-wants-to-shrink-tribal-marine-sanctuary-to-accommodate-wind-energy-factory-owned-by-dem-donor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-wants-to-shrink-tribal-marine-sanctuary-to-accommodate-wind-energy-factory-owned-by-dem-donor\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden aims to reduce tribal marine sanctuary for wind energy factory backed by Dem donor."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-wants-to-shrink-tribal-marine-sanctuary-to-accommodate-wind-energy-factory-owned-by-dem-donor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2028875&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>President\u200c Biden&#8217;s Proposal Sparks Controversy Over Marine Sanctuary<\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-wants-to-shrink-tribal-marine-sanctuary-to-accommodate-wind-energy-factory-owned-by-dem-donor\/\" title=\"Biden aims to reduce tribal marine sanctuary for wind energy factory backed by Dem donor.\">accommodate offshore wind energy factories<\/a>\u200d has raised concerns about the protection of endangered whales in a Pacific Ocean marine sanctuary.\u2063 The proposal, which would\u2064 shrink \u2062the sanctuary by about 1,400 square miles, includes a wind turbine \u200binfrastructure owned by Invenergy, a company whose founder and CEO, Michael Polsky, has been a major Democratic donor.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict between efforts to fight climate change and preserve natural habitats\u2062 is evident in this proposal. While it aims to generate renewable \u2064energy and benefit \u200dgreen energy companies,\u2063 environmental groups have expressed alarm \u2064over the potential\u2062 harm to birds and whales\u2014the very wildlife the marine sanctuary seeks to protect. Additionally, the proposal highlights the significant \u2062influence of the\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-proterra-investor-al-gore-lobbies-white-house-on-infrastructure\/\" title=\"Major Proterra Investor Al Gore Lobbies White House on Infrastructure\">green energy industry<\/a> within the\u2062 Democratic Party, with Biden investing billions of taxpayer dollars into renewable energy\u2062 projects backed by liberal billionaires.<\/p>\n<p>Polsky&#8217;s substantial contributions to Democrats, totaling\u200c over $400,000 since 2016, \u200chave raised\u200c questions about potential \u200cfavoritism towards his energy companies. This isn&#8217;t the\u200b first time \u2063Polsky has received rewards from\u200b Democrats, as he secured a $1.2 billion natural gas\u2062 plant with the help of a Pennsylvania Democrat \u2064whose campaign he \u2062funded. Invenergy also\u200b received over $20 million in taxpayer-funded\u2063 grants during Barack\u2063 Obama&#8217;s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed revision to the\u2063 marine sanctuary&#8217;s boundaries is currently open for public comment\u200d until October 25. However, the\u2063 Biden administration has already awarded ocean leases to Invenergy and other energy corporations, despite construction not yet commencing. Concerns about the impact \u2063of offshore wind factories on marine life, including whales, have been raised by\u2062 environmentalists. The administration \u200bhas dismissed these concerns as &#8220;misinformation,&#8221; despite documented whale deaths since December.<\/p>\n<p>While the potential harm to \u2064whales remains\u2062 uncertain, Invenergy has invested heavily in lobbying efforts. The company has\u200b spent $1.3 million this year alone to lobby the White House, Congress, and agencies such as the \u2063Department of Commerce. Equinor, another energy conglomerate with an ocean lease, has also spent a significant amount on lobbying,\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-they-can-do-it-to-me-they-can-do-it-to-you-donald-trump-pens-wsj-op-ed-on-why-im-suing-big-tech\/\" title=\"\u2018If They Can Do It To Me, They Can Do It To You\u2019: Donald Trump Pens WSJ Op-Ed On \u2018Why I\u2019m Suing Big Tech\u2019\">including topics related<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-to-review-30-million-acres-of-ocean-for-potential-wind-farms\/\" title=\"Biden Administration To Review 30 Million Acres Of Ocean For Potential Wind Farms\">offshore wind development<\/a> and marine issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern\u2062 Chumash Tribal Council, which initially petitioned for the \u200bmarine sanctuary, \u200ccontinues to advocate for\u2064 the inclusion of the full coastline in \u2063the protected area. As the Biden administration promotes offshore wind farms as a solution to the climate crisis, the Department\u200c of the Interior acknowledges that these projects alone will have a\u2064 limited impact on global emissions and climate change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden aims to reduce the size of a Pacific Ocean marine sanctuary, originally established to safeguard endangered whales, to make room for offshore wind energy facilities. This includes a factory owned by a prominent Democratic contributor. The recent proposal by the Biden administration suggests removing approximately 1,400 square miles of ocean and coastline from an Indian tribe&#8217;s planned national marine area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1604,"featured_media":2028876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}