r/technology • u/Wagamaga • 2d ago

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

https://thepublicsradio.org/environment/trump-halts-construction-on-nearly-complete-wind-farm-off-rhode-island/
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u/Notgreygoddess 2d ago

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 2d 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 2d 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/ilski 2d ago

Long boring intro to short story. 

Recently there was World Justice Forum in my city. Was working for company who put together this whole event.  Whole bunch of lawyers , active and inactive politicians and policymakers from around the world were there. 

So there was that one senior gentleman , lawyer from New York. I was tasked with assisting him around our local healthcare, as he needs frequent regular medical checks. 

Anyway, had a chance to talk with him quite a bit. And conversation ofcourse went to Trump as after all it was subject relevant to whole forum.

He said he met Trump few times during his new york era. Business kind of meetings. He said he wasnt so bad in person, but he also said " anything he said, was a lie. Nobody wanted to work with him because he never paid." also that you could talk to him only on subjects he wanted to talk about at that time 

So yes, there is that little story.