Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham has sent a letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management calling for a proposed offshore wind auction for submerged land off the coast of Texas to be reconsidered.
In the letter, Buckingham says her position as Commisioner of the General Land Office gives her power over state-owned submerged lands where transmission lines to shore from the offshore facility would run, and that she sees a significant number of concerns before a wind lessee “is permitted to cross state-owned submerged land.”
She refers to the offshore wind auction as part of the Biden administration’s “continued efforts to force-feed the American people failed ‘green’ policies.”
