No More Wind FARMS!!
Trump says he wants no wind turbines built during his administration
Credit: By Ari Natter and Stephanie Lai, with assistance from Josh Saul · January 7, 2025 · bloomberg.com ~~
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President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he would seek to have a policy of having no wind farms constructed during his second term, threatening billions of dollars in planned wind projects.
“We are going to have a policy where no windmills are being built,” Trump said during a lengthy tirade against wind power during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Trump, who has vowed a first day executive order targeting wind power, has long made no secret his disdain for the energy source. But his remarks Tuesday represented the sharpest threat yet from the incoming president.
As president, Trump will have broad authority over the approval of multi-billion dollar projects being planned off the the US coast as well as wind farms proposed for large swaths of federal land.
Trump criticized the renewable energy source as being too expensive and harmful to the environment and whales. Trump in particular singled out a 200 wind turbine project planned off the coast of New Jersey, an apparent reference to a project being developed by EDF Renewables Inc. and Shell PLC. Other companies whose wind projects could be under threat include Avangrid Inc., Orsted AS, and Invenergy LLC.
“They litter our country,” Trump said. “Nobody wants them and they are very expensive.”
The US wind industry has struggled over the past year. The head of GE Vernova Inc., which makes equipment for wind farms, said last month that its onshore wind orders remain “humble” and he doesn’t expect immediate improvement because data centers require constant power. Offshore wind has had an even tougher time, with multiple developments canceled or delayed due to rising costs and supply chain kinks.
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Comment by arthur qwenk on January 8, 2025 at 10:40am
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Just accurately quoting the original article as published .We all know they are far from farms. "FARMS" is used facetiously of course. We know they are highly damaging Industrial Complexes.
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Arthur,
Please do not ever call them “farms”.
Those systems destroy real farms and harm the people living on those real farmsCALL THEM “WINDMILL SYSTEMS”
Just change the title of your article
Ken,
All subsidies, including writing off the whole turnkey investment in 5 years for tax shelter purposes, should be eliminated for all renewable schemes. Wall Street will have a fit
Screw them
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Comment by Dan McKay on January 8, 2025 at 8:00am
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Hopefully the federal Investment Tax Credit and Production Tax Credit programs are eliminated by the congress soon.
Hopefully, the rights of ratepayers to secure reasonable rates will be prioritized and reparations from wind projects that received ITC or PTC payments, and state incentives will be forthcoming. This is justice from being victims of the wind scam, as the President describes it.
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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