Perhaps you thought that Trump’s idiotic rally blather about wind power was just for the MAGA rubes. You would be wrong:
The Trump administration on Friday ordered that all construction stop on Revolution Wind, a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that is already mostly built.
The 65-turbine project had obtained all necessary permits from the Biden administration, and nearly 70 percent of the turbines have been installed. The developers behind the project had said it was on track to produce enough electricity for more than 350,000 homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut by next spring.
Matthew Giacona, the acting director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, issued a letter on Friday to Orsted, the Danish company building the wind farm, ordering it to “halt all ongoing activities” because of unspecified issues.
“In particular, BOEM is seeking to address concerns related to the protection of national security interests in the United States,” Mr. Giacona wrote, adding that Orsted “may not resume activities” until the agency has completed a review of the project.
Why? Well, he’s making America great again.
It’s unbelievably stupid for him to do it and even worse for the rationale he gives for it. Now it’s true that he’s in the pocket of the oil companies so there’s that. But there is every reason to believe that he is sincere about his hatred for wind and solar.
He came to loathe wind when they wouldn’t remove the turbines outside his Scottish golf course and he is obsessed with imposing his tacky, ugly aesthetics on the whole country. This is a man who thinks there’s a big valve that can release all the “water from Canada” to California. Why would we doubt that he honestly thinks that wind and solar are too “ugly” for us to use in the United States?