Trump halts construction on nearly complete wind farm off Rhode Island

[u/Wagamaga]

https://thepublicsradio.org/environment/trump-halts-construction-on-nearly-complete-wind-farm-off-rhode-island/

[u/OrderlyPanic]

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).

[u/nakedinacornfield → u/OrderlyPanic]

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

[u/chastity_BLT → u/nakedinacornfield]

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.

[u/nakedinacornfield → u/chastity_BLT]

wind turbine guys are “liberal pussies”

lmfao omega yikes

[u/chastity_BLT → u/nakedinacornfield]

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

[u/eri- → u/chastity_BLT]

It blew you away?

[u/disbeliefable → u/eri-]

I think he’s just winding us up.

[u/eri- → u/disbeliefable]

I do not expect a comment storm to occur, indeed

[u/SoloMarko → u/eri-]

I'm not a fan.