The South Brooklyn Marine Terminal, under construction as part of Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 project. Courtesy: Equinor
Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump has reaffirmed his stance against the offshore wind industry, promising Tuesday that “no new windmills” would be built during his second term in office.
Trump made the remarks amidst a lengthy, disorganized hodgepodge of passing thoughts and unsettled grievances billed as a press conference at Mar-a-Lago that was very much reminiscent of the political theatre we all grew accustomed to during his first presidency. But unlike his suggestion to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” or his sudden desire to annex Canada and buy Greenland, Trump’s vendetta against turbines and the clean power they produce is long-running, well-established, and appears to have some teeth.
“We are going to have a policy where no windmills are being built,” Trump said, adding that they “litter our country” like “garbage in a field.”
On the campaign trail last year, Trump promised to sign an executive order on the first day of his presidency halting offshore wind development.
“Nobody wants them and they are very expensive,” the President-elect asserted Tuesday, likening the Biden Administration’s spending on clean energy to throwing money “out the window.”
Why doesn’t Trump like wind power?
Trump’s beef with wind turbines appears to trace back to (unsuccessfully) lobbying against the construction of one built in the backdrop of one of his Scottish golf courses. Since then, he has proliferated a series of false claims including that wind farms are harmful to the environment, they’re somehow linked to cancer, and that they kill birds and whales, “obviously driving them crazy.”
It’s worth noting that Trump is recognized as friendly to fossil fuel interests. He has pledged to massively increase oil production, a plan that could be stymied slightly by President Biden’s new prohibition on oil and gas lease sales in 625 million acres of federal waters, although the United States is already the world’s biggest oil producer and more production may not be a priority at the moment. The President-elect campaigned on drastically decreasing energy costs for Americans and pledged to achieve global “energy dominance.” More of this article (Renewable Energy World) - link - more like this (US wind power) - link - more like this (Donald Trump) - link
Trump’s beef with wind turbines appears to trace back to (unsuccessfully) lobbying against the construction of one built in the backdrop of one of his Scottish golf courses. Since then, he has proliferated a series of false claims including that wind farms are harmful to the environment, they’re somehow linked to cancer, and that they kill birds and whales, “obviously driving them crazy.”
It’s worth noting that Trump is recognized as friendly to fossil fuel interests. He has pledged to massively increase oil production, a plan that could be stymied slightly by President Biden’s new prohibition on oil and gas lease sales in 625 million acres of federal waters, although the United States is already the world’s biggest oil producer and more production may not be a priority at the moment. The President-elect campaigned on drastically decreasing energy costs for Americans and pledged to achieve global “energy dominance.” More of this article (Renewable Energy World) - link - more like this (US wind power) - link - more like this (Donald Trump) - link
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