Maybe somebody at Grist can explain why their article on the Koch Brothers and their analysis of offshore wind in New Jersey is any different than RFK Jr.’s analysis on offshore wind in Massachusetts.
Do you know what other wind project the Koch Brothers have been criticized over? You guessed it: Cape Wind. RFK Jr. and the Koch Brothers are fighting the same fight. From Cape Wind’s website (emphasis mine):
…While David and Charles Koch, as detailed in the New Yorker article, have focused their spending on nurturing “Americans for Prosperity” and similar national efforts their brother William Koch has been focused on local denial – heavily funding lobbying against the Cape Wind project which he apparently feels would damage the view from his vacation home. But the Koch agendas are now converging as “Americans for Prosperity” levels a volley at an effort by the governor of New Jersey, a Republican who is generally regarded as conservative, for using RGGI funds to support offshore wind farm development. Perhaps this is a result of the reconciliation between these brothers now that they have settled their infamous feud.Ultimately, though this is about people who have made a lot of money from the current system of generating energy from fossil fuels fighting the future. Not only are they tossing all of us, including their own families, under the bus of a dangerously changing climate but they are fighting against efforts like wind farms that generate stability in energy prices (something their fossil products simply can’t deliver) and programs like energy efficiency investments that generate real jobs and prosperity.