How a fossil-fuel company became a wind giant, with Mads Nipper
Zero: The Climate Race
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What Are You Asking of Government?
In the US, for example, we are still struggling with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management getting enough resources to keep momentum. In other places, it's an endless bureaucracy where maybe sometimes tens or 20s of different government bodies need to be involved. And they don't coordinate sometimes an application can lie two months on a desk and not get on to the next one. There are so many practical dimensions. We have seen the amount of paperwork that needs to be done to get an offshore wind permit or even onshore wind permit. I mean, one of the applications we've done there has been 4,300 pages. It looks like half a ton of paper. That's what I'll do
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