Governor Wes Moore, the Democrat, is travelling over to Maryland’s huge industrial development, just to break ground on a new construction facility for the offshore wind energy industry. All while signing off three additional pieces of legislation that will definitely upgrade the efforts throughout the state designed to combat climate change.
When he went about touring the big Tradepoint Atlantic development in Baltimore County, where the Patapsco River ended up coming across Chesapeake Bay safely, Governor Moore has stated that there’s a likely opportunity to hold on to the economic and environmental benefits of the offshore wind.
Tradepoint Atlantic itself is where the Bethlehem Steel plant at Sparrow’s Point, with many political, business, and labor leaders with wind energy development with important aspects of the renaissance of the huge property, as well as the Maryland’s very own economic future.
It matters to make sure that wind energy is a reliable avenue to turn to. Otherwise, why are we kicking gas to the curb and not investing fully in electricity? Nothing is more crucial than having a backup plan.
So what came from this groundbreaking event?
Friday saw a major groundbreaking for the advanced component center located in Ørsted, where of two companies will be installing wind energy plants not far from Ocean City. Fabricated steel from this plant on the Eastern shore will be made and shipped from this area for the purpose of providing parts beyond. 125 new union jobs and 20 professional jobs are said to be created out of this historic job site.
The ceremony was more than just construction and it was certainly more than introducing electric energy of a different type of wind; the whole purpose of this is to usher in a renewed interest in renewable energy that could very well benefit and reshape our world.
Other executives joined Governor Moore in discussing their enthusiasm for renewable energy from different sectors such as Tradepoint Atlantic, Ørsted and Riggs Distler, a Dundalk-based infrastructure company that will be crucial to the construction project. Search individuals are as listed: Jermaine Jones, Baltimore director of the Baltimore-D.C. Metropolitan Building Construction Council; the state’s two U.S. senators, Ben Cardin (D) and Chris Van Hollen (D); Baltimore County Executive John Olszewski Jr. (D); and Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller (D).
These phones are making it clear that Marilyn’s climate oriented ambitions are totally backed by new federal programs in order for the progress to not be halted by a lack of funding or regulatory permission. After all, like small plants these fledgling green industries need all the help they can get.
The US Department of Commerce is willing to allow for $20 million for the funding of apprentice programs associated with the offshore wind construction at tradepoint Atlantic, as an example supporting the cause.
Nothing makes a bigger difference in the world today than preserving the Earth for the continued future. And the best way we can support that is by relying less and less on fossil fuels and more on renewable energy sources, as well as human ingenuity. For it’s a remarkable amount of innovation that will get us through some darker ages in the future.
