On Monday, the US Department of the Interior announced that it was pausing the leases on all five offshore wind sites currently under construction in the US. The move comes despite the fact that these projects already have installed significant hardware in the water and on land; one of them is nearly complete. In what appears to be an attempt to avoid legal scrutiny, the Interior is blaming the decisions on a classified report from the Department of Defense.
The second Trump administration announced its animosity toward offshore wind power literally on day one, issuing an executive order on inauguration day that called for a temporary halt to issuing permits for new projects pending a re-evaluation. Earlier this month, however, a judge vacated that executive order, noting that the government has shown no indication that it was even attempting to start the re-evaluation it said was needed.
Don Quijote looking for power companies bribery money…
latest excuse as silly as Cervantes’ character
Maybe, lord knows he’ll have his price, but dude legitimately hates wind power because “it’s ugly.” Sometimes our particular burgeoning dystopia reminds me most of the Twilight Zone with the omnipotent and petulant child.
Too bad they’re too big to be covered in gold leaf, he’d love them.
Trump is guaranteeing the US will be at the bottom of the energy sector in the near future.
Sadly no, as a lot of Western countries’ right-wing populists are copying Trump 1:1.
So in reality most of the western world if throwing away their economic future because power-hungry people have learned how manipulate the moronic masses.
Thank the Christian god the birds are safe! All praise king Trump.
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And, by “US government”, we are talking about a government captured by Republicanism/conservatism.
