Trump halts construction on nearly complete wind farm off Rhode Island

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So, private companies be warned; if your Dear Leader doesn’t like you, he can shut you down. So much freedom, eh?

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u/OrderlyPanic 10h ago

The action itself is illegal but Trump has realized you can just do things. If it costs tens of millions in legal fees and years of delay in court to prevail then that will ruin the economics of almost all renewable energy projects. This isn't a one off either, he's even gone so far as to instruct the FAA to scrutinize proposed wind farms on private land due height (previously a routine matter of informing the FAA so they can make where the wind turbines are).

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u/stadchic 9h ago

This is how he ran all of his businesses. He would do things like, have different companies work on different floors of a hotel to break up the contract amounts. Then, he wouldn’t pay and mostly got away with it because the legal fees would be too costly for the smaller companies.

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u/TigerUSA20 4h ago

This is why I think people are just stupid too. Was this swindling people out of their work some sort of secret in the construction industry? I would never have even hammered a nail-pop for this guy.

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u/MetriccStarDestroyer 4h ago

It's a common modus used by realty oligarchs.

The Philippines has the Villar family. They never pay and decalred their non-developed empty lot to be equivalent to the property value of the country's financial center worth 1 trillion.

Thank God third party auditors flagged it and they got sued.

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u/kermityfrog2 4h ago

He's a smooth talker (confidence man). I like you and would never swindle you. I'll swindle all the other guys working on the other floors, but never you. Swindles you. Cue surprised Pikachu face.

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u/NorthernerWuwu 2h ago

It's a big part of why the new-generation tech bros like him. They've gotten rich off "break things, do what you want and then sort out the repercussions later".

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u/feketegy 13m ago

Didn't he almost go to jail because of things like this before he got elected president in 2016? At least according to that Netflix documentary series, season 1, episode 6: The Confidence Man is about him.

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u/nakedinacornfield 9h ago edited 9h ago

I’m very interested in the demographics that build these things. Generally contracted constructions and trades have been pretty blue collar, I worked in manufacturing for almost a decade and yeah the cognitive dissonance of union-benefit enjoyers voting for the party that wants their unions completely dissolved and their wages slashed…. Yeah I just can’t help but wonder how many trump voters are getting their work slashed here. Wouldn’t be a surprisingly new phenomenon at all, farmers all over keep shooting themselves in the face with their vote. But I do enjoy watching leopards consume faces as a lil treat in these trying times

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u/chastity_BLT 6h ago

I got a buddy that works on diesel turbines and he says the wind turbine guys are “liberal pussies”. He dropped out of high school for the record.

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u/nakedinacornfield 6h ago

wind turbine guys are “liberal pussies”

lmfao omega yikes

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u/chastity_BLT 6h ago

Yea I was also surprised to hear there is a social Hierarchy in the turbine industry

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u/eri- 4h ago

It blew you away?

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u/disbeliefable 2h ago

I think he’s just winding us up.

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u/eri- 1h ago

I do not expect a comment storm to occur, indeed

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u/OrderlyPanic 8h ago

It doesn't matter what their political affiliation is. It's wrong. It also won't hurt Republicans immediately - the Northeast coast is all blue states. When energy utility prices do rise as a result they will not connect the dots - they've been propagandized that renewables are expensive and bad for decades now at this point.

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u/nakedinacornfield 6h ago edited 6h ago

the Northeast coast is all blue states

yea i mean i live in a very blue state and its incredibly red in many parts, and generally our trade jobs are filled with people who would vote for trump even if he molested their own daughter.

im aware that its wrong regardless of political affiliation. im just curious how many boat/truck leases are getting canceled over this, because my gut tells me a lot of the construction/assembly of wind farms, despite being "green" and "woke af" = probably still a lot of deep red voters in the ranks of the construction personnel. morbidly curious what they think now that trump is rugpulling their very livelihood, or are they so afraid to forwardly state they're working on woke projects that they eat the loss and try to move on.

regardless, this was a blooming industry for quite a while and provided a lot of working class jobs. and to the surprise of checks notes no one, the republican party once again flexing how much they goddamn hate the working class.

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u/IAMSTILLHERE2020 6h ago

They want to send those white pairs back to the coal mines...which I could care less at this point.

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u/RationalDialog 4h ago

Disclaimer: I'm not American and do not live in the US. Eg I'm neither a Trump fan nor a republican.

Renewables are expensive and waste resources. You need about 30-100x times more steel/concrete per kwh produced compared to nuclear. Why such a huge spread? because it depends on the exact location and even year. Where I live for every single "windfarm" installed (in quotes because they are all kind of tiny) they greatly, greatly overestimated the generated electricity. One is generating 7% of the predicted energy. Eg the amount of power actually produced is often greatly exaggerated and you will only really now 5 years after project completion.

This is also why there are more expensive than thought. because the windfarm is much cheaper on paper if you greatly over predict the outcome.

The real hit on price is however in a grid were renewables start to gain a lot of traction. This needs actual investments on the grid and how to manage it (eg personel). You also need to greatly over provision the renewables so that if it's bad weather in in region, the other region can compensate to an extent. And you still need coal or gas as back-up plants that need to be maintained and manned in case the weather is really bad (bad for generating power which in an offshore windfarm can mean sunny and warm). All this costs a lot of money. And the realy bummer? Yeah solar and wind are not CO2 free or climate neutral because you do need the gas/coal backup plus the gigantic resource demand in their construction.

Someone actually did the math and you would have to significantly increase iron ore mining and steel production if we as a global society wanted to start to globally replace fossil fuels with renewables and have a meaningful impact. On a global scales renewables can barley match the increasing demand let alone replace existing one. Renewables on a global scale are a huge logistic challenge. I firmly believe the energy (pun intended) is better spend on nuclear power, nuclear power research and of course fusion research. With IFRs and thorium we could cover the worlds energy demands for thousands of years. Fusion should be available by done (honestly I don't think our civilization makes it another 1000 years but that is a different topic)

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u/einmaldrin_alleshin 3h ago

Companies prefer building wind power plants because they pay off twice over before you even see a cent of revenue from a nuclear plant.

If you want to build out more nuclear energy, the smart way is to do it like China: invest in both. Only building nuclear plants will result in fossil fuel dependency for decades to come

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u/Baooser 3h ago

Sounds suspiciously pushy like something someone from big nuclear would say

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u/Ishidan01 6h ago

Right you are. The electrician's union subreddit is big mad at any member who voted for the Tiny Dictator.

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u/mikeydean03 3h ago

It’s also going to take up to six years or longer to get natural gas generators built to address the country’s energy needs. Regardless of anyone’s political views or opinions on climate change, it seems silly to find stop construction of generators that can help supply the grid…

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u/ghoonrhed 8h ago

I mean if laws don't matter anymore, why not just complete the build? What's Trump gonna do? Spend 10s of millions of dollars in legal fees and years in courts to stop them from something that's already been done?

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u/ftug1787 7h ago

I like your thinking here and would agree; but Trump appears more and more inclined to call the Pentagon to send military assets to places they normally are not sent to for what I am assuming are reasons to back up what he wants or lies about

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u/_Zambayoshi_ 6h ago

Yeah, sadly. Trump is the bully in the school yard, or more accurately, he is the whiny rich kid that can tell the bullies what to do.

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u/Astralglamour 5h ago

So Francis Buxton.

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u/Isopbc 2h ago

Forgive me if I’ve missed something, has Trump had the pentagon do anything yet?

He’s called up the reserve in a few places, has he issued any orders yet? I’ve only seen him threaten to do stuff, do we know if anyone would actually follow his orders on domestic soil?

If not it’s just more posturing and the energy company should just ignore the illegal stop order. Make Trump actually use force.

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u/Allydarvel 4h ago edited 3h ago

The wind farm owners are spending their own money while Trump is spending your taxes on the law suit. Trump can spend billions and it won't cost him a penny. And let's not forget the rigged Supreme Court tilting the balance in Trump's favor.

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u/Koru03 3h ago

I honestly think they could just lie to him, say they've stopped and promise not to restart, then just keep on with the construction.

Him and his sycophants have a very short attention span so I'd imagine they'd forget about it after a short while.

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u/aerost0rm 2h ago

Honestly. I really don’t get the whole hype. The fossil fuel companies could have gone in big on renewables. Same with the billlionaires. They could have changed it from a purchase to lease only or only allowed them for commercial instillation, with approval coming from the feds. They could have still cornered the market and price gouged…

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u/G-I-T-M-E 57m ago

Quite a few are doing exactly that. Shell for example has a very broad decarbonization strategy. But then Shell isn’t American…

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u/aerost0rm 2h ago

I was thinking this as well, I just figure he will be vindictive and order them torn down. He isn’t being held back by anyone!

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u/TheDaveStrider 6h ago

but like what's actually stopping them from not stopping construction

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u/OrderlyPanic 4h ago

Have you ever heard of the state's monopoly of force? They will get huge civil fines if not prosecuted criminally.

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u/TheDaveStrider 14m ago

I guess so. But what is stopping those people from not prosecuting them?

idk i just think all those people in the courts who are actually listening to the administration are complicit

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u/CaptOblivious 3h ago

The action itself is illegal

So what would happen if the State and the company the State contracted with just ignored trump's bullshit?

I'm guessing, nothing.

If everyone just ignores his illegal edicts, he has no power.

It's time to teach him where his power ends.

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u/OrderlyPanic 3h ago

They would be breaking the law and would get arrested.

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u/CaptOblivious 3h ago

Ok, since you are so certain you go ahead and quote that law, chapter and verse so I can go look it up.

ProTip, you are entirely full of shit and can't quote anything.

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u/OrderlyPanic 3h ago

The wind farm is 15 miles off shore, it's in Federal waters. You need a permit to build anything out there. The operator's had a permit, the beurea rescinded it.

Pro tip: You are an asshole and I don't owe you shit. Go fuck yourself.

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u/Jugaimo 8h ago

Rapidly shooting towards cyberpunk dystopia but without the cool body mods and unregulated military weaponry circulating the general populace.

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u/GotThemCakes 11h ago

They use federal dollars for huge projects like this. Though I agree with your point.

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u/Notgreygoddess 11h ago

From what I’ve read the only thing the company received was permission to build in Federal waters. The company affected is Orsted, a Danish company. Rhode Island has benefited from the company creating jobs, and also helping them attain their clean energy goals.

The people of Rhode Island might not appreciate the federal government effectively cutting off low cost clean energy and the jobs it creates for no good reason.

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u/merkinmavin 10h ago

You think he's going to do this to red states?

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u/Shopworn_Soul 10h ago

I think he would do this anyone he felt like, at any time.

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u/Radioiron 10h ago

He did

Cutting off solar credits and taking an ax to the IRA which was a massive benefit to red states in energy installation jobs which would help reduce energy costs

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u/Notgreygoddess 10h ago

I think he will do whatever he wants wherever he wants. It’s not as if he responds to representatives, senators, judges, or any other authority. You fools crowned him Emperor.

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u/Astralglamour 5h ago

TX has a huge renewable industry, for the record.

It's just so absurd to be punishing certain states as the leader of a 'country.' How can his supporters be so damn hateful? Plenty of them come to my liberal town and swan around, do they really want us all to disappear? Where will they have their vacations? ha.

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u/mikeydean03 3h ago

There are a lot of renewable energy projects in red states. One of the biggest achievements of the IRA was the investment of these infrastructure projects in rural counties. Either way, yes, I think he will do it to red states as well…

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u/blbd 10h ago

If we are all so angry about it we need to start voting like it.

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u/AllIdeas 10h ago

I mean, to be fair, Rhode Island votes heavily democrat

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u/PhantomNomad 7h ago

The biggest problem is there is no vote for 1.5 years or so. Even then if you think it's not rigged you are a fool. There is probably also a chance that it doesn't even happen.

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u/lbalestracci12 9h ago

People in Rhode Island absolutely HATE these wind turbines. The misinformation around them is pretty rampant in the fishing community

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u/The_All-Range_Atomic 2h ago

Yeah, I'm sure they kill the beautiful eagles.

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u/flynik4 10h ago

This isn’t true, the only thing federal about this project is the property they’re building on (and paying for). Source - wind industry professional and former Orsted employee.

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u/GotThemCakes 10h ago

Were they not getting any funding/rebates from green energy programs? I know the one in Virginia was. I would assume all green energy projects would take advantage of government incentives

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u/flynik4 10h ago

No, there is no government funding for renewables, only tax credits upon completion. Renewables, unlike fossil fuels, receive zero government subsidy. We have to be smarter and not push misinformation.

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u/Elongatingpolymerase 9h ago

Federal approval was granted to them already. It's just Trump being a fascist asshole. There is no new national security risk other than the fucktards in charge hate anything other than fossil fuels.

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u/flummox1234 6h ago

hate anything other than fossil fuels

they don't hate fossil fuels. They just do what their oil daddy's money tell them to do, which comes off as them hating fossil fuels. If the wind and solar industry was greasing their pockets as liberally then they'd hate oil. These people have no scruples.

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u/1beautifulhuman 7h ago

Happy cake day! 🎉 user name checks out 👍🏼

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u/Redrump1221 7h ago

And they are the party that hates market manipulation by the gov too? Hmm almost like they are a bunch of fuckin liars and leeches

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u/Perunov 2h ago

Be careful if you involve any international companies in your project. Today's suspicion of violating national interests goes to Danish company. Tomorrow could be any other country.

Will probably declare the same "well what if they have hidden kill-switch, like networking equipment from China!" reasoning

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u/mariuszmie 12h ago

It’s always ‘acting’ directors because they’re either totally unqualified billionaires or tv personalities and it just means everything normal is on hold for next 3.5 years unless elections are cancelled as it looks like republicans are about to lose power

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u/limbodog 12h ago

And it avoids having to put them through public senate confirmation hearings.

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u/RasCorr 11h ago

Or security clearances

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u/DonHac 10h ago

The President can grant security clearances as he pleases without any actual security screening being required. This ability used to be purely theoretical and not a concern, but well, things have changed.

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u/Sloppy_Wafflestomp 9h ago

Matt Giacona is a career lobbyist for the National Oceans Industries Association. An oil lobbyist now in charge of offshore oil and gas leasing. So yes, in a completely corrupt way he is totally qualified.

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u/reddicher 8h ago

Elections aren’t going to be cancelled, obviously, they’re just going to be patrolled by ICE agents wearing tactical bandanas and carrying semiautomatic weapons. Also on site will be National Guardsmen positioned in and around Armored Personnel Carriers. These measures will largely be in effect in inner city locations in swing states. Thank you for performing your civic duty!

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u/Wagamaga 12h ago

President Trump’s administration has ordered a developer to halt construction on a nearly complete offshore wind farm off Rhode Island’s coast, casting the future of the state’s largest renewable energy project into doubt.

In a stop-work order issued on Friday afternoon, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it is seeking to address national security concerns raised by the construction of Revolution Wind.

The brief letter, signed by BOEM’s acting director Matthew Giacona, did not specify what those security concerns are.

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u/whatproblems 12h ago

security concerns trump hates them because it looks bad from his properties

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u/Notgreygoddess 12h ago

Trump is basically insecure, so everything is a security concern to him.

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u/TheRealHeroOf 53m ago

Except for ceasing cyber operations against Russia, sharing intel with Ukraine and allies, and dozens of boxes of classified government documents in an unsecured bathroom that it.

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u/swollennode 11h ago

That’s where you’re wrong. The security concerns is that they haven’t given him enough money.

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u/triton420 10h ago

That's all it took to make intel selling chips to China no longer a security issue

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u/redyellowblue5031 9h ago

I know it’s sort of sarcasm, but he really does hate wind energy. It’s a whole thing for him, if you haven’t looked into it.

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u/swollennode 9h ago

Yeah I know he despises wind because it ruined the view of his Scotland golf course.

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u/fantom_frost42 9h ago

Yup im convinced this is his only concern on anything. They need to pay to play as the King has spoken

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u/JiminyJilickers-79 10h ago

This is a fact. He's a modern-day Don Quixote.

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u/swollennode 11h ago

That’s where you’re wrong. The security concerns is that they haven’t given him enough money.

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u/thracia 11h ago

security concerns: Russian oil will be less valuable.

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u/SAugsburger 12h ago

National Security concerns that only were only discovered right before it was completed?

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u/Eduardjm 11h ago

Fuck those American jobs. Who the hell do they think they are? In a republic with a right to freedoms? The nerve.

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u/13Krytical 11h ago

Security concerns like making it harder for Putin to hide his subs there undetected

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u/ghigoli 3h ago

bruh it would hard to hide anything out there. its only of the most heavily monitored areas of coast line considering you gotta squeeze through long island and Rhode island and get past Connecticut and Massachusetts .

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u/hitsujiTMO 10h ago

Is he going to just take the entire project and hand it over to an American company?

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u/TheVideogaming101 4h ago

The brief letter, signed by BOEM’s acting director Matthew Giacona, did not specify what those security concerns are.

The concern is the coal and oil lobbyist dont like it.

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u/BHSPitMonkey 2h ago

Creating energy scarcity will make everything more affordable, right?

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u/JOWhite63087 12h ago

Just keep building. They shouldn't answer to trump

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u/BituminousBitumin 11h ago

They do answer to the land/water management authority though. They'll likely win in court.

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u/Ruined_Armor 11h ago

Yes, the government will lose. Im a contracting officer in the government, and the government has to have a really good reason for a stop work order.

They don't.

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u/BituminousBitumin 10h ago

Yeah, but what a giant PITA it is for them to have to do. It's ridiculous the ineffective and idiotic wastes of time and money this administration perpetuates... eliminating waste indeed. SMH

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u/Kershiser22 7h ago

And then after they sue they'll get taken off Trump's list of "good" companies.

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u/KingGorilla 3h ago

"The brief letter, signed by BOEM’s acting director Matthew Giacona, did not specify what those security concerns are."

Sounds like they should keep building

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u/buckX 4h ago

They don't.

You have access to the unspecified security concern? Can you share?

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u/george_kaplan1959 10h ago

This past spring T tried to shut down the Virginia Wind farm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_Virginia_Offshore_Wind?wprov=sfti1#

But failed miserably

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u/BituminousBitumin 8h ago

He's by far the most inefficient and wasteful person to hold office in my lifetime

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u/JOWhite63087 11h ago

sigh I hate that you are right but I feel like the windmills that are completed should still operate as a way of saying, "Kiss our Ass Orange Man!"

EDIT: By "They" do you mean the construction company or Trump's administration?

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u/BituminousBitumin 10h ago

The construction company

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u/JOWhite63087 10h ago

Oh! Then if the construction company wins then I'm all for it!!

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u/thatguy9684736255 5h ago

I'm not sure if managers or workers really want to put themselves in a position of being arrested. Personally, I don't love my job enough to do that.

And trump is awful. If the company continues building, trump might target the company specifically for retubution

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u/texachusetts 5h ago

How Trump FEELS about green energy is raising electricity prices, adding to inflation. We’re paying rent for Trump views.

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u/CodeAndBiscuits 12h ago

Are we Great Again yet?

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u/justaddwhiskey 11h ago

We’re Winning^TM

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u/Digger2484 11h ago

We were great and we will be again. Just not until heart disease does its thing and a thorough cleanse of the remaining magats happens.

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u/PhantomGamers 2h ago

We were great

when?

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u/Think_Fault_7525 12h ago

And if they just complete it anyway what are they going to do about it?

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u/xelrach 12h ago

Send everyone involved to El Salvadorian prison

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u/delebojr 11h ago

That would happen regardless of completion status...

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u/whatevers_cleaver_ 11h ago

Anything they wish?

Like have the Navy destroy it, for example.

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u/yepthisismyusername 11h ago

Yes. This is what fascism looks like, aka living under Mafia rule.

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u/Mountain_rage 11h ago

Inflation of gas, meat, cars, healthcare, building materials... Now electricity prices. Dont you love winning America, dont you love the "small government" republicans and their "fiscal" leadership.

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u/blbd 10h ago

It looks more like followership or trailership to me...

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u/cedarpark 11h ago

Trumps obsession with killing wind farms all started when one was installed off the coast of Scotland changing the view from one of his golf courses.

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u/chomp190 11h ago

Total dumb fuck

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u/blbd 10h ago

They should have replaced the course with a nuke plant to balance things out.

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u/AdTiny2166 11h ago

People with combovers hate wind. Trump just made it personal.

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u/limbodog 12h ago

Because Fuck You Rhode Island!

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u/ChrisBegeman 11h ago

He will soon spin it into a failed project that wasted tons of money.

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u/pbates89 11h ago

What do wind farms have to do with nat sec?

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u/Malakai0013 11h ago

Trump hates wind farms, and also hates the nation being secure.

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u/Nima-night 12h ago

No one does stupid like trump. No one can make companies go broke like trump maybe he is the best Amin the world and braking companies and making zero profit.

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u/fritz236 11h ago

Started singing this in my head to Gaston's song from Beauty and the Beast. Was disappointed.

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u/HansBooby 10h ago

so much promise

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u/Nima-night 9h ago

Omg I'm now singing it 🤣 hahha Gaston is trumps AI alter ego

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u/billypaul 11h ago

That's the keen business savvy that runs casinos into the ground

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u/Rylos1701 11h ago

Golf is a national security threat. It’s a long term plan by the scots to get us to accept men wearing dresses.
Ban golf at mar a lago

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u/-UltraAverageJoe- 11h ago

So glad we finally have the party of “small government” in power. Big win /s

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u/KoolKat5000 11h ago

I guess it is small? One person, the emperor, decides everything, at their whim.

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u/BadCatNoNoNoNo 11h ago

He’s such an irresponsible person. Wind power is used all over the world. It’s a wonderful resource.

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u/QDSchro 10h ago

Does he not realize the money for the project has already been spent? It’s basically done…

So now instead of getting the millions that have already been spent up and running, we are just going to let tax payer millions literally rust and become millions more dollars to fix because it was incomplete for years….But hey, at least the whales are safe.

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u/Efficient_Problem250 11h ago

just like trump to throw millions of tax payer money down the drain. just finish the goddamn project…

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u/lordhamwallet 7h ago

I will never stop posting this. The only people losing are the ones who hope to ruin our lives long term. They’d hate to see overnight losses.

https://share.google/bDgCd5w1hHNfLZFX1

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u/zacpariah 7h ago

I just don't understand how or why they've stopped?

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u/Rurumo666 6h ago

The sheer incompetence and gross wastefulness of Trump never ceases to amaze me.

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u/Giosefr 11h ago

So much win

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u/AnninaCried 10h ago

That's a nice wind farm you have there. Would be a shame if something happened to it.

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u/Mean_Git_ 10h ago

He hates wind farms because the Scottish Government built one that can be seen from his shite course are Menie Estate near Aberdeen.

Supposedly 6000 jobs were to be created and they got less than 200.

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u/beefwindowtreatment 10h ago

Donald Quixote Trump

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u/friday567 7h ago

This is what they consider wasteful spending or abuse. What idiotic people!!

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u/Plausibility_Migrain 6h ago

Of course Don Quixote halts construction of wind turbines. He’s afraid of them. Ponce Vance would do the same since he doesn’t have an original thought in his empty head.

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u/Timmy24000 4h ago

They didn’t buy enough or didn’t buy any Trump’s stable meme coins.

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u/niallporter 4h ago

I think Mr Jackson said it best in this advert for a Dutch wind farm. https://youtu.be/TRzEzU7kwyQ

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u/pondo13 10h ago

I cannot believe our government is run by short bus Nazis.

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u/GabeDef 10h ago

It’s so fucked that so many stupid people voted, and then voted for this circus.

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u/Masterthemindgames 10h ago

While opening coal plants that the coal companies themselves opted to close. There’s a special place in hell for this man.

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u/ColoDIVY 9h ago

Oh good I was concerned the whales were going to get cancer and become gay.

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u/PossessedToSkate 7h ago

I honestly cannot believe we're letting all of this happen just because a piece of paper from 250 years ago says we have to.

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u/Galliagamer 7h ago

The problem isn’t the constitution—he’s violating the constitution regularly. But the problem is that people who are supposed to stop him from violating the constitution—Congress and SCOTUS—won’t do it. They’re all betraying their oaths of office.

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u/PossessedToSkate 7h ago

Congress and SCOTUS have been fully captured by MAGA/Heritage. This coup has been ongoing for a long while, but has really picked up steam the past ten years. We cannot count on any remedy laid out in the Constitution. Too many people are pretending that MAGA is a political movement when it is, in fact, a terrorist organization hell-bent on twisting the US government into a White Christian Theocracy.

And they are succeeding.

They are succeeding because we are fighting them with procedure while they are using action. We need action - if not from our representatives, then from the people themselves. Direct action. Bold action. And we need it fucking soon, because this crazy train ain't stopping.

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u/Imyoteacher 7h ago

He’s shutting everything down that won’t give him a kickback!

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u/ultralightlife 7h ago

he is simply the dumbest asshole ive ever witnessed

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u/Dangerous-Coconut-49 7h ago

It’d be amazing if everyone just started ignoring Trump like he ignores the law and the constitution.

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u/funnyusername-123 7h ago

Make Electric Bills Higher Again!

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u/Specialist_Ad9073 11h ago

Edit to delete stupid question

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u/feral_tran 11h ago

The windmills irritate his bone spurs lol

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u/BluesFan43 10h ago

Next speech.

Derelict wind farm off if Rhode Island!

I wish this was sarcasm.

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u/OB4032 10h ago

Once the bribe is paid it will continue. Racketeer in chief.

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u/LineElegant3832 9h ago

"How much is it worth to you for me to UN-halt it? ka-ching ka-ching

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u/p90rushb 7h ago

Regressive president regresses. More at 11.

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u/AiMwithoutBoT 6h ago

Are we sure Trump doesn’t also have a brain eating worm in his head?

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u/sayitlikeyoumeenit 6h ago

It would starve to death

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u/CaptOblivious 3h ago

Does trump actually have the authority to stop a state run project?

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u/DENelson83 3h ago

Because Big Oil said so.

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u/Mateysm8 2h ago

Their killing the birds remember

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u/Telope 2h ago

He is all over the Epstein files.

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u/Crayola_ROX 1h ago

So what's his beef with wind farms? I'm assuming that its something he cant make money off of. therefore its bad?

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u/Tobias---Funke 56m ago

He says they give you cancer!

But the truth is easier to understand.

He lost a court case where they got put up around his Scottish golf course.

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u/justthegrimm 21m ago

Make America backwards again, you all are doing well and giving China the lead internationally on a silver platter.

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u/ZealousidealNews3900 10h ago

all of this is because he is still pissed about a wind farm built off the shore of one of his shitty golf courses

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u/Silver_Mousse9498 9h ago

WHY?WHY?WHY? How much did big oil pay the fucking POS in the chief toilet inhibitor?

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u/soraksan123 9h ago

Good thing he caught it in time, can't have all that clean electricity floating around-this is gonna stop not only the war on birds but also the whales! Two more wars he's stopped! Where's that peace prize! Noe release the f'ing tapes....

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u/SGSfanboy 8h ago

Question his authority

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u/Gunker001 8h ago

Corrupting America from the inside.

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u/manfromfuture 7h ago

China powering their AI endeavors with a mix of alternative energy. Meanwhile in the US …

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u/BonesAndHubris 7h ago

Nothing like just watching as fascists unmake anything good or beneficial to our society. They control every legal system, the world's most advanced military, a sprawling police and surveillance state, and enough ingenious and nefarious devices that they could make war on their own population for 100 years and not be unseated. America is already a dictatorship and growing more authoritarian every day.

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u/TitanArcher1 6h ago

They should just simply continue the work and finish the job. Why would they comply with the request?

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u/Invisibleagejoy 9h ago

Just keep going people he will forget about it tomorrow.

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u/The_first_flame 8h ago

States are going to have to do their own projects without federal funding. Fuck Trump.

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u/Structural_Integrity 8h ago

It's because he and his squad of workers aren't making money from it. Drill baby drill!

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u/PetuniaPickleswurth 7h ago

Pick up the funds locally.

Energy Trump halts construction on nearly complete wind farm off Rhode Island

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