The Trump administration on Monday said it would pause leases for five wind farms under construction off the East Coast, essentially gutting the country’s nascent offshore wind industry in a sharp escalation of President Trump’s crusade against the renewable energy source.
The decision injected uncertainty into $25 billion worth of projects that were collectively expected to power more than 2.5 million homes and businesses across the Eastern United States, according to Turn Forward, an offshore wind advocacy group. The five wind farms were projected together to create about 10,000 jobs.
It left intact just two operational wind farms in U.S. coastal waters — one small project off Rhode Island that has been complete since 2016 and a larger project off New York that has been fully operational since 2023.
The five wind farms targeted on Monday had all obtained leases from the Biden administration. But citing unspecified national security concerns, the Trump administration said it would freeze those leases, effectively blocking construction or operations and jeopardizing billions of dollars that have already been invested.
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I love the video of the turbines, which were not turning, meaning they provide no power.
Anyhow, every single one of these projects has lots people in those areas who were dead set against the projects, from fisherman to people who live there to people who are going to have to deal with the unreliable, undependable, and more expensive electricity. Turbines which can easily be damaged by enemies of the U.S. They don’t even have to totally destroy them to disable them. Seems like a weak excuse using “national security,”, though, if I’m being honest. Really, they should just let the projects go forward, and without federal money, let the residents in these Democrat voting states deal with the fallout.
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