Rural Ontario fighting a losing battle. I haven't been here recently, but because there is money and a government that doesn't care about people, let alone those in rural areas, I imagine it's a done deal. The island is known for its beautiful nature, so wind turbines will absolutely affect that. In these areas, it's a battle between those who with profit and those who won't but have to put up with what those who profit decide to do.
Proponents of #wind projects criticized the deals, pointing out that regions like the NE #US were counting on the #WindFarms to meet rising #electricity demand & could now face future #shortages.
“Replacing coastal offshore wind with geothermal or natural gas infrastructure in another region does nothing to address rising ratepayer #affordability concerns, reliability challenges or potential gaps in #power supply in the #Northeast & #midAtlantic,” said Hillary Bright, exec dir of Turn Forward….
#Wind #power generates far fewer #planet-warming #emissions than using #FossilFuels. But #Trump has criticized the technology as ugly, falsely claimed it is inefficient & has sought to block new #wind turbines. Last year, the #Interior Dept ordered work to stop on 5 #WindFarms already under construction off the East Coast, but federal #judges struck down all of those moves. The #Pentagon has also sought to halt approvals of wind farms on land.
The agreement is similar to deals that the #Trump admin has struck since March with other companies, including French energy giant TotalEnergies, to abandon #WindFarms off California, New Jersey, New York & North Carolina in exchange for investing in #FossilFuel projects.
The announcement means the government has so far spent roughly $2.5 billion of #TaxpayersMoney to get companies to terminate offshore #wind leases.
#EnergyCrisis #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #RenewableEnergy
Under the agreement #Invenergy will voluntarily surrender 4 leases in federal waters for #WindFarms that would have been located in the New York Bight, off the Central Coast of California & in the Gulf of Maine. All of those projects were in the early stages of development & had little chance of moving forward under the #Trump admin, which has halted all federal permitting for offshore #wind.
#EnergyCrisis #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Republicans #GOP #TaxpayersMoney
#StephenMiller rails against ‘monstrous’ #WindFarms: ‘Visual assault on God’s creation’ - Raw Story
“These monstrous wind farms – every one of which exists solely based on federal subsidy – are a visual assault on God’s creation that weaken the grid, disrupt marine ecosystems, and force reliance on foreign fuel when [we] have near-limitless reserves of our own,” Miller wrote in a #SocialMedia post..to his more than 1.7 million followers
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller launched into a tirade Sunday over wind turbines, which he described as “monstrous” and a “visual assault on God’s creation.”A social media user on X published a photograph Saturday that showed several wind turbines off the coast of Virginia Beach. Th...
Repowered windfarms!
Old turbines get swapped out with new, more efficient ones! GWs of more power output - from the same land!!
Hopefully this is another lawsuit Trump gets to lose.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/lawsuit-trump-administration-windfarm-leases
In the north of the country, mining has ravaged Indigenous lands and lives for decades. They fear history is repeating as the government’s clean energy transition comes to their doorstep
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