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... Last week brought some good news for the East Coast's struggling offshore wind industry.
Federal courts ruled three times for developers of northeast projects " one of them being New London-based Revolution Wind " which so far have succeeded, barely, in fighting back against the Trump administration's continuing effort to shut them down.
Trump has long opposed offshore wind turbines, dismissing them as ugly threats to bird and marine life that, if completed, will produce unreliable and prohibitively expensive electricity.
But the administration's latest stop work order " turned back at last temporarily in court by Revolution, New York's Empire Wind and Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind " is based on the claim that a classified Pentagon report, one too secret to discuss, has identified offshore wind turbines as a threat to national security.
The security claim has met skepticism not only in court, but in Congress and elsewhere. The administration and Pentagon have so far refused to elaborate, but there is widespread belief that the claim is based on concern that enormous, revolving windmill blades interfere with military radar by producing unwanted images known as clutter.
If that is the claim, the wind industry and its supporters say the potential problem was identified by the Pentagon and resolved to its satisfaction years ago. ...
Whatever the reason for its latest concern, the Pentagon won't talk about it, even when pressed by powerful members of Congress with seats on committees that control the defense budget and weapons procurement. ...
