We knew that BROADWATER was only one step and here comes the next. I Wonder what's up their sleeve for round 3?

hey yeah, lets clone islands! we did sheep, maybe if we can clone some islands the world will loosen up and let us clone people.then cloned people can surf cloned pop out boards on cloned waves in a truly soul-less world. kill everything natural, we can make it better, good on ya!.....kooks

Well, Insanity Island sounds like a bad idea for the environment, for sure. But... its NY/NJ, right? Isnt that where they take big barges of garbage and dump it out in the ocean every day? I was there a few years ago with hospital waste washing up... not to mention seeing tampon applicators and a bunch of other gross stuff every time I surf there. If your going to freak out about an island way out, you might want to start freaking out right there on the beach first. WK surferwaynekelly.com

steve johnson is on the money, surfers need to wake up and start asking what kind of ecological impacts our sport is having on the planet.

You can pipedream a world without fossil fuels while you ride in your SUV and on your petro surfboard, but you dismiss a more attainable vision of compromising with your petro-supplier to build multiple perfect pointbreaks out on Insanity Isle. If eco-nut surfers outnumber oilmen 500 to 3, surely you could work your demands into their scheme. The developers could allot a sector of the island to pointbreaks and hotels for surfers and tourists. Pointbreaks would be far more successful than reefs.

Lame on private investors of this project stop focusing so much on your pocketbook and outdated methods of fuel consumption not to mention the untracked costs of damage to the environment. Don't keep repeating the same stupid mistakes other companies are making. Be a leader, Think Green energy with minimal impact to mother earth. Get another project to fund!

looks like lng wants their pipes everywere. oregon california newyork alaska

Project sucks, everyone speaking for it is some kind of rat or idiot. I love how they are in a rush to build a power plant structure where it will adversely affect waves and wildlife, but managed to stall the wind farms enough to kill the project. I'd get mad but these peoples grandkids will have the same cancer and acid ocean that we will all have. Noone wins. see you in hell.

There are so many other things an individaul can do to lower their carbon footprint and use less energy and petroleum products. The simple fact is the GP is uneducated with respect to these issues. Use cloth bags, turn off your appliances and lights, drive an economical car, etc...Do you really nead a 12 board quiver? How many bottled waters are you drinking a week? C'mon now, the real issue is with us and our gluttony. Btw NO ONE can really predict the true ecological impact of the island!

Are all you people for building a man-made, open-ocean island LNG insane? There is no way in hell this will ever happen. I don't have the space to detail what a completely retarded idea this is, and what an absolute disaster it would be. And how could you ever build an island that would guarantee a surfable wave, much less "multiple perfect point breaks". Are you for real? We need massive investment in renewables, not LNG and DEFINITELY not nuclear. I'm blown away by the ignorance here.

Currently there is a power plant in Spain that harnesses the energy from the sun by pointing mirrors at a reservoir which boils water and pumps a piston. This power source could power the entire world if it was placed on only 1% of the Sahara Desert. Recently researchers at VCU were able to seperate hydrogen by only using environmental friendly chemical reactions. This means that hydrogen powered machinery should now be used since its env. friendly. So why aren't we using these technologies?

Sounds like a terrible idea. Our reliance on fossil fuels needs to change, like others have already stated. LNG is only looking at their best interests: MONEY! I think the island is completely unnecessary, the idea's probably also stimulated by the down economy.

Corporate gains, fossil fuel technology, blah blah blah... All you protestors should walk your talk and stop buying gasoline then. Don't expect the auto or energy industies to change so long as you buy their product. Supply meets demand. If you really, really cared, you would BOYCOTT buying fossil fuels, DEPRIVING them of CAPITAL to even consider such a project. But I suspect you aren't willing to make that sacrifice, so rant on, its all pointless hypocrisy. Action speaks louder than words.

Please, NO! In the quick and brief comments about how this might damage the environment I believe this is a short-sighted and selfish endeavor! Please, NO!

I have a degree in environmental science and have worked in the fishing and marine construction industries. Why protest the building the first ever man made, open-ocean island? You don't know what you're saying no to. It will create jobs and supply energy in the most populated area in the US. If displacing sea life means creating jobs during a global economic recession, I say build it. People are more important than fish.

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