President Donald Trump acted to halt the wasteful offshore wind projects. His executive order halted all new and renewed approvals, permits, leases, and loans for both onshore and offshore wind projects.
The order is titled “Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government’s Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects.”
Without the subsidies, the projects are beginning to fold. The flim-flammers are packing up and heading out.
The Lava Ridge Wind Energy Project in southern Idaho is collapsing.
Idaho Sen. Jim Risch wrote the executive order that President Donald Trump signed. The senator was elated.
“I made a promise to Idahoans that I would not rest until the Lava Ridge Wind Project was terminated. On day one, President Donald Trump took action to keep that promise,” Risch said. “Lava Ridge has been the embodiment of liberals’ disregard for the voices of Idahoans and rural America,” he said.
“Despite intense and widespread opposition from Idaho and the Japanese American community, the previous administration remained dead set on pushing this unwanted project across the finish line. Finally, our nation has a leader who recognizes that people on the ground should have a say in how our natural resources are managed.”
The Atlantic Shores offshore wind project off the coast of New Jersey received federal approval to start construction in October 2024. However, Shell pulled out of the project.
The Maryland Offshore Wind project awaited the final federal approval for constructing up to 114 wind turbines. Local residents want no part of the project, and it might fold. The Ocean City leaders are suing, citing negative impacts.
The NE Is Ditching Them for Now
These same problems are slamming proposed offshore wind projects in New York as developers decide whether to start building turbines or cut their losses before they worsen.
This year, projects have tumbled in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, and now Danish wind-power giant Ørsted has canceled two wind farms in New Jersey.
The Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas and wind developer Orsted fell nearly 7% after Trump’s actions. Equinor has written its value down by $300 million.
The NY Post reported these wind farms will almost certainly be built someday. That is, even if the current contract holders back out, the state has to rebid them.
If it does, every bidding company will demand higher prices. It will sock ratepayers across the state with higher bills to subsidize them.
This is the problem with a Marxist government picking winners and losers.
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I still say, relocate some of these and put them in front of every politician’s beachfront property, stating with Obama and Biden. Give them something to think about.
Boy is that a annoying sound, can you imagine living by that CRAP!!!!!!!!!
Again, a great idea would be to place a few in front of every politician’s house.
SOOOO glad to see this happening. So overdue. The liberrhoid’s Green Energy crap has always been mentally-vacant, going nowhere, and wasting billions. Wonderful.
THE WIND POWER SCAM is NOT GREEN —IT’S DARK CRUDE OIL and WIND ENERGY IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS TO HAPPEN TO BIG OIL’S PROFITS !!!
“Depending on its size, a wind turbine gearbox needs an oil quantity between 200 (53 gallons) and 800 L (211 gallons), according to a peer-review article published by MDPI, titled “Monitoring the Oil of Wind-Turbine Gearboxes: Main Degradation Indicators and Detection Methods.”
Patricia Pitsel, Ph.D., Principal at Pitsel & Associates Ltd. estimates that the typical wind farm requires about 12,000 gallons of oil:
“Right now the average wind farm is about 150 turbines. Each wind turbine needs 80 gallons of oil as lubricant and we’re not talking about vegetable oil, this is a PAO synthetic oil based on crude… 12,000 gallons of it. That oil needs to be replaced once a year.
“It is estimated that a little over 3,800 turbines would be needed to power a city the size of New York… That’s 304,000 gallons of refined oil for just one city.”
OK. And your point is…?
I think his point is that it is not really green energy since it uses gigantic amounts of oil made from petrol.
Yes. Re-reading it, I agree. And he’s right.
Like the rest of liberrhoids’ braindead ideas, “green” stuff’s just another non-viable DOA political agenda.
I did not know that they require so much oil to operate. They’re a boon for oil companies. I’m actually flabbergasted by this information. Are we being scammed or what? I say we are…..
To be honest, I also thought they use much less oil and that it does not need to be changed often.
In a car the engine oil needs to be changed often but the transmission oil is good for 15 to 20 years , I thought windmills could keep their oil for 15 or 20 years.
It turns out windmills are not green at all and we have not even calculated all the energy used to build them and build the gigantic concrete base to hold them to the ground.
Not green at all
Those 3 winged turbines do not work, they are heavily subsidized by the government, they lose money, they cannot break even on cost versus energy produced.
By “winged”, I’m assuming you mean “blades”, which is what the turbines use.
If that’s the case, I can agree that they’re a bad idea, as is all the “green energy” crap. Technology’s not there.l