Dnistrian, Piperno, Eulner: Murphy & Gopal Enabled Offshore Wind Scheme’s Ultimate Theft of Taxpayer Dollars

Praises Grassroots Effort that forced Orsted North America’s Decision to Abandon Costly, Unsafe Offshore Wind Projects

COLTS NECK, N.J. Nov. 1st – Today, Steve Dnistrian, candidate for NJ State Senate, and Assemblywomen Marilyn Piperno and Kim Eulner of New Jersey’s 11th Legislative District, released the following statement in response to the news that Orsted North America is abandoning its Ocean Wind 1 and Ocean Wind 2 projects:

“This is foremost a victory for the grassroots groups and ratepayers who stood up to one-party rule and a powerful, foreign offshore wind company to save our beautiful shore, and we were proud to stand with those who dared to challenge the Murphy Administration’s offshore wind narrative – even when it was unpopular to do so,” said Steve Dnistrian, candidate for State Senate in Legislative District 11.

Dnistrian continued, “Senator Vin Gopal is now trying to distance himself from this grievous abuse of taxpayer resources and the reality that he supported the offshore wind industry from the beginning. Both he and Governor Murphy are ultimately responsible for entangling our state with these bad actors. In addition to gutting parents’ rights, pushing sex and gender education on young children, defunding our schools, inciting a crime wave with criminals targeting our homes and cars, the Menedez scandal and the refusal to bring justice to the families of 200+ veterans who died in state-run nursing homes, Murphy, Gopal and the Democrats who supported this disastrous offshore wind policy since 2018 were about to destroy our beautiful Jersey Shore forever. This colossal, abject failure of leadership calls on all of us to do one thing: Get out and vote. Return your mail-in ballots, vote early, or vote on Election Day. Show up in record numbers and vote them all out for failing New Jersey like no other party has failed our state ever.”

Assemblywomen Piperno and Eulner concluded: “We have been sounding the alarm for years that these unsustainable projects would harm marine life, our vital tourism economy and New Jersey ratepayers, who would bear the brunt of their precarious financial state. The public deserves to know how much money has been wasted on this epic failure. Murphy and his Democratic allies in the legislature have barreled down a reckless path that just a few short weeks ago propped up this failing industry with a billion-dollar, taxpayer-funded bailout. In one week, voters will remember who sided with New Jersey’s citizens and the others who stood with foreign companies looking to blight our shoreline and steal taxpayer money. And all those ocean advocates – who Gopal dismissed as ‘conspiracy theorists’ – will have their day at the voting machines across our district, county and state.”

Legislative District 11 has been named by national Republicans as one of the state’s most competitive races this November. The district encompasses Allenhurst, Asbury Park, Bradley Beach, Colts Neck, Deal, Eatontown, Fair Haven, Freehold Borough and Township, Interlaken, Loch Arbour, Long Branch, Neptune City and Township, Ocean, Red Bank, Shrewsbury Borough and Township and Tinton Falls.