Tree-Hugger Morons

If our great nation is going to begin creating jobs at a faster rate, we must get back in the business of building things.

Project No Project assesses the broad range of energy projects that are being stalled, stopped, or outright killed nationwide due to “Not In My Back Yard” (NIMBY) activism, a broken permitting process and a system that allows limitless challenges by opponents of development.

Listed below are projects good for 181,000 NEW jobs in Florida that are on hold or killed by tree-hugging environmentalists:



Port Dolphin LNG Deep Water Port, Florida
STATUS: In progress with opposition TYPE: Natural Gas OPPOSITION: Environmental groups PROSPECT: Likely

Destin Dome Unit, Florida
STATUS: Killed TYPE: Natural Gas OPPOSITION: Florida state government, environmental groups PROSPECT:

Progress Energy Apalachicola Area Improvements, FL
STATUS: In progress, with opposition TYPE: Transmission Line OPPOSITION: Local Residents and Property Owners; Franklin County Commissioners. PROSPECTS:

Progress Energy Levy County Transmission Line, FL
STATUS: In progress with opposition TYPE: Transmission Line OPPOSITION: Public Citizen; Green Party of Florida; Ecology Party of Florida; Nuclear Information and Resource Service PROSPECTS: Indeterminate

Port Sutton Envirofuels Ethanol Plant, FL
STATUS: Killed TYPE: Ethanol OPPOSITION: Local residents (PEL Laboratories) PROSPECTS: Highly Unlikely

Florida Power & Light Co. – St. Lucie County Wind Farm
STATUS: Killed TYPE: Wind Farm OPPOSITION: St. Lucie Alliance; St. Lucie County Commissioners; Treasure Coast Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation; Florida Fish and
Wildlife Conservation Commission PROSPECTS: Unlikely

Biomass Gas & Electric Tallahassee Renewable Energy Center
STATUS: Killed TYPE: Biomass OPPOSITION: Leon County Commissioner Bill Procter; local landowners PROSPECTS: Highly Unlikely

Tampa Electric Company’s Polk Power Station 6, FL
STATUS: Terminated TYPE: Coal OPPOSITION: Southern Alliance for Clean Energy; Sierra Club; State of Florida (Charlie Christ) PROSPECTS: None

Seminole Electric Power Cooperative’s Seminole 3, FL
STATUS: Canceled TYPE: Coal OPPOSITION: Sierra Club; Southern Alliance for Clean Energy; State of Florida (Charlie Crist) PROSPECTS: Unlikely

Florida Municpal Power Agency Taylor Energy Center
STATUS: Terminated TYPE: Coal OPPOSITION: Sierra Club; Capital Medical Society;

State of Florida (Charlie Crist) PROSPECTS:

ALL DEAD!!!


181,000 jobs lost!!!!