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US Administration halted largest Offshore Wind project in the U.S.
- tencentshill 10mo ago"Radar interference risk" is the cited reasoning. It took them the entire year to use anything other than a conspiracy theory to justify shutting these down.
- cr125rider 10mo agoIt’s unfortunate many people are able to see through this to the blatant corruption. Energy independence and national security is renewable energy. All sorts of diverse energy sources are good. But we don’t like that.
- UncleMeat 10mo agoI don't even know if this is corruption. The Trump admin has definitely been engaged in a lot of graft, but this appears to just be "fuck you libs" for the sake of it. They know that liberals like renewable energy and they'd rather hurt liberals even if it hurts themselves too.
- xnx 10mo agoThey could've cited "owned the libs" and it wouldn't have made a difference. Republican congress tacitly supports all of this.
- jandrewrogers 10mo agoI hadn't considered it but even if it is a pretense at least the reason actually makes sense? Ship-borne drones have become a significant issue and you could pretty easily screen them with offshore wind farms.
- Facemelters 10mo agooh look, lying about national security concerns again. It's funny that the only thing this administration does is destroy things, lie, and make our lives measurably worse.
- jimt1234 10mo agoIt's about time a US administration is brave enough to tackle real national security concerns: windmill cancer, completing the White House ballroom, and Antifa! /s
- nneonneo 10mo agoIt sounds like “national security” is the legal justification they’re using to do an end-run around Congress, just like the justifications they’ve used to implement tariffs and which underpin a bunch of their EOs.
- stronglikedan 10mo ago[flagged]
- amanaplanacanal 10mo agoLikely just a temporary pause. This administration won't be around that much longer.
- pjc50 10mo agoThey're stuck there for four year terms, and in the case of SCOTUS life, are they not?
- amanaplanacanal 10mo agoNobody can predict the future, but there are several possibilities, including impeachment and death in office. The man really doesn't look very good, I don't expect him to last out his term. Not only that, but the president can only do what Congress allows him to do. Look for a blue wave next year.
- squarefoot 10mo agoI feel bad for ruining someone's dreams, but you really have no idea how wrong you are.
- amanaplanacanal 10mo agoEverybody can see that climate change is real. Relying on fossil fuels is just the last gasp of a dying industry.
- nullocator 10mo agoI had someone say this to me almost verbatim, 30 years ago. I'm not sure how long should we expect this last gasp to last?
- mdhb 10mo agoThey aren’t leaving until someone forces them to do so. They aren’t going to accept any election results that they don’t like they have already proven that.
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- lateforwork 10mo agoIn October Trump canceled the largest solar project in the United States. Known as Esmeralda 7, the project planned in the Nevada desert would have produced enough energy to power nearly two million homes. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/10/trump-interior-department-cancels-largest-solar-project-in-north-america-00602071 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/10/trump-interior-depa...
- jandrewrogers 10mo agoIt is misleading to characterize forcing them to undergo the standard environmental review process as "canceling". This solar project was given a special waiver to skip expensive environmental reviews that everyone else is required to go through because of close political ties to the Biden administration. If these environmental reviews are too onerous then maybe we should eliminate them. Clearly, no one believes these environmental reviews serve a real purpose. Both Democrats and Republicans will allow you to skip them for a sufficiently large bribe. Which suggests the true purpose of such reviews.
- nodesocket 10mo ago[flagged]
- SpicyLemonZest 10mo agoI do not understand why people think it’s exciting to drop into the comments and pointlessly lie to defend their favorite dictator. We know and you know that you didn’t think wind farms were ugly until it became necessary to defend Trump’s obsession; what do you hope to gain by pretending otherwise?
- Refreeze5224 10mo agoNo one cared about the looks of wind turbines until they built some near Trump's golf course in Scotland. He hates them, and by pure and total chance, his base/cult now does too.
- kej 10mo agoAnd these talking points are always framed as if coal mines and oil wells occur naturally and there is nothing unsightly or unhealthy about them.
- janice1999 10mo agoI live near one (no-USA) and honestly it doesn't bother me. It's a small price to pay to avoid ever-decreasing foreign-sourced oil/gas and insanely over-budget/over-schedule nuclear.
- frontfor 10mo ago> CapEx break even is estimated 7-10 years I don’t think this is unique to wind farms.
- mikeyouse 10mo agoYou know who looks at the economics of wind turbines? Companies that build wind turbines. The fact that these farms were all under construction means they pencil out just fine.. there's such bizarre strains of concern trolling on clean energy topics.
- gnabgib 10mo agoRelated: US halts work on almost finished wind farm because national security (117 points, 4 months ago, 83 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45002747 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45002747
- ZeroGravitas 10mo agoI think Swedish right-wingers pioneered this particular form of anti-renewable propaganda last year.
- seanmcdirmid 10mo agoTrump was anti offshore wind farms since before his first term. He claimed they caused brain cancer or something foolish like that.
- kyleee 10mo agoAnd promotes conspiracy theories about harm to birds and underwater sea life
- PeterCorless 10mo agoShould be far, far larger news, to be honest.
- bediger4000 10mo agoIsn't citing "US administration" incorrect? Trump should be given credit.
- HardwareLust 10mo agoWhy is this flagged?
- belter 10mo agoYou did not noticed HN is 100% MAGA now? Everybody here thinks they are a new Peter Thiel. What other reason could be?
- UncleMeat 10mo agoPeople who support the current administration don't want people to read about the harm they are causing. Flag abuse has become rampant. Use /new and /active for a better experience.
- timeon 10mo agoThere are still enough pedophile-supporters here.