We're doing the same thing here in Texas. Using the electricity from all those Corpus Christi and Permian Basin farms to make drilling and pumping cheaper.
We refuse to build HVDC or other high efficiency grid cables into the major metro areas. We refuse to sell our electricity surplus onto the national grid. We only want to use it for mining more fossil fuels.
big oil get subsidies collected from people to build renewables (the source of which is free), renewables help corporate get extra cash by cutting costs, but those cost cuts dont translate to lower prices for consumers, fucking the environment in the process. corporates are just leeches on humanity and the universe. socialize the costs, privatize the gains.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Oil giant Equinor is behind the project, but renewables still make up only a tiny fraction of its total energy production.
Fossil fuel giant Equinor is behind the huge Hywind Tampern farm which, with 88 megawatts (MW) of capacity, will generate energy to supply nearby oil and gas platforms.
Though it will help cut emissions from the oil and gas fields, climate campaigners argue it’s time to stop drilling for fossil fuels altogether.
The energy produced will cover around 35 per cent of that needed to power five offshore oil and gas platforms in the North Sea.
The electrification of offshore and onshore installations is essential if Norway is to reach its national climate goals under the Paris agreement, Greenpeace points out.
Big Oil's unwillingness to implement real change is a crime against the climate and future generations", says Greenpeace CEE campaigner Kuba Gogolewski.
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