Virginia Democrats want to quintuple their state’s offshore wind power and greatly accelerate its construction timeline. What they fail to see — or admit — is that this approach would pose a huge risk to American national security.
In January, Democrats in the Virginia State House proposed House Bill 920, expanding offshore wind power by a factor of five while accelerating the target date by two years, at the cost of America’s Navy. Norfolk, Va., is the primary home port for America’s Atlantic fleet and our largest naval base, hosting around 75 warships and submarines, including five of America’s eleven nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Hundreds of U.S. warplanes are stationed at nearby bases like adjacent Chambers Field and Langley, and the Navy constructs new carriers at the nearby Newport News Shipbuilding facility. Together, these make up the densest collection of national security facilities on American soil.
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