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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump suspends all large offshore wind farms under construction, threatening thousands of jobs and cheaper energy
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/climate/trump-offshore-wind-suspension-virginia"It marks a major escalation in President Donald Trumps attacks against offshore wind, a form of energy he has long railed against. The suspension could impact billions of dollars of investment and stall nearly six gigawatts of new electricity set to come online in the next few years.
The new sweeping order impacts five projects being built in the Atlantic Ocean, including a massive Virginia offshore wind farm that could eventually be the largest such project in the nation. Set to be completed by the end of 2026, it would supply electricity to Virginia, the state with the worlds largest cluster of power-hungry data centers and skyrocketing energy costs partially tied to that growing demand. Other wind farms impacted are off the coast of New England.
what those risks were. The release also noted the potential for wind turbine movement and light reflectivity to interfere with radar.
In a Monday Fox Business interview, Interior Sec. Doug Burgum said the Department of Defense has conclusively determined that large offshore wind farms have created radar interference that creates a genuine risk for the US, especially our east coast population centers.
CNN has reached out to the Department of Defense for comment on its new report."
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Trump suspends all large offshore wind farms under construction, threatening thousands of jobs and cheaper energy (Original Post)
CentralMass
Dec 22
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And his ego cannot stand knowing people will go on when he is dead and buried
Attilatheblond
Dec 22
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Turbineguy
(39,845 posts)1. Harming the economy is his job.
Attilatheblond
(8,291 posts)2. And his ego cannot stand knowing people will go on when he is dead and buried
He gets paid to destroy the environment and humanity and is enjoying doing so because he is a nasty, insane mofo.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(12,848 posts)3. I bet many of those wind workers are republican
CentralMass
(16,855 posts)4. The Orange Pantload is just plain evil.
Liberal In Texas
(15,983 posts)5. He is absolutely psychotic about wind farms. Ever since he couldn't get them removed from offshore of his stupid
Scottish golf course.
Next he'll be building coal fired electricity plants. Let's make the air look and feel like we live in the industrial revolution!
keep_left
(3,160 posts)6. Funny that you mention that--Trump was recently interviewed...
...by the execrable Maria Bartiromo on her Sunday show for Fox "News". The takeaway messages were: "we're doing coal!", "I don't want windmills", solar farms are "ugly as hell", and "they cover up half a mountain". For many years now, Trump's had two particularly inscrutable obsessions: destroying the alternative energy economy, and returning the nation to the days of coal-fired power plants.
https://democraticunderground.com/10143573453#post1
(See 0:35-1:57).
CentralMass
(16,855 posts)7. 🤮 Maria Fartaroma.