President-elect Donald Trump said the U.S. government would no longer subsidize new windmill farms and reiterated his stance that he doesn’t “want even one built” during his administration in his latest tirade against renewable energy—but Trump might not be able to block production of turbines altogether.
Calling windmills “an economic and environmental disaster,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Wednesday he doesn’t “want even one built during my administration,” calling them the “most expensive energy” that only works “with massive government subsidies, which we will no longer pay.”
Trump also asked all the “dead and damaged” wind mills that “will be torn as soon as possible” and included a video of the debris of a damaged turbine on the Nantucket coast that sprouted the beach.
Trump, first of all, proposed “a policy where no windmills are built” earlier this month was based on federal lands as corporations that have already won are legally allowed to continue with their projects.
Trump has claimed for years that windmills have a negative impact on whales, telling an audience at a rally in South Carolina in 2023 they are driving whales “crazy” and are a contributing factor in whale deaths. He said in January wind farms “obviously” kill whales. There is no evidence to support a link between whale mortalities and off-shore wind farms, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, which says “vessel strikes and entanglement in fishing gear are the greatest human threats to large whales.”
Trump, for years, tried to block an offshore wind farm from being built in view of one of his golf course projects in Scotland, but ultimately lost the legal battle in 2019 and his company was ordered to pay more than $290,000 to the Scottish government in legal fees. He’s made a number of baseless claims about what he says are harmful effects of wind turbines over the years, claiming they cause cancer, are unreliable sources of energy and lower property values. Trump is broadly opposed to President Joe Biden’s clean energy policies and has vowed to lift regulations related to U.S. oil and gas production, including a moratorium on new permits for liquefied natural gas exports and a rollback of Biden’s policies to promote electric vehicle production.
Trump’s administration eased offshore wind projects into his first term, promoting federal progression auctions for progression. “I’m very positive about offshore wind, and exploiting this renewable resource is a giant component of the Trump administration’s U. S. power strategy,” said the internal secretary at the time, Ryan Zinke Les Côte Massachusetts, Rhode Island and California.
Trump to finish new wind parks (New York Times)
The story of Donald Trump’s dispute with his true nemesis: Windmills (The Washington Post)
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