Trump Suspends All Large Offshore Wind Farms Construction

"The new sweeping order impacts five projects being built in the Atlantic Ocean, including a massive Virginia offshore wind farm that could eventually be the largest such project in the nation.

Set to be completed by the end of 2026, it would supply electricity to Virginia, the state with the world's largest cluster of power-hungry data centers " and skyrocketing energy costs partially tied to that growing demand. Other wind farms impacted are off the coast of New England.

Virginia Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, who serve on the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services committees, respectively, said the administration had "failed to share any new information justifying the sudden pause."

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Sounds like Herr Drumpf must be building a new golf course in VA.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-22 04:42 PM | Reply

High energy prices Make America Great Again!
--Republicans

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-22 04:43 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Donald Trump doesn't want you to have electricity.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-22 05:09 PM | Reply

Americans lived without electricity just fine, for over a hundred years!
Democrats making a mountain out of a mole hill, yet again.
--Republicans

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-22 05:10 PM | Reply

All because he thought the off-shore wind farms ruin the scenic beauty of his Scotland golf course.

How Trump's loathing for wind turbines started with a Scottish court battle (July 2025)
www.bbc.com

... "I am the evidence," was the eyebrow-raising comment made by Donald Trump when he appeared before the Scottish Parliament in 2012.

He was speaking as an "expert" witness on green energy targets, describing how he believed wind turbines were damaging tourism in Scotland.

Five years before he first became US president, it was one of his earliest interventions on renewable energy -- but since then his opposition to them has grown to become government policy in the world's biggest economy.

He was objecting to 11 turbines which were planned -- and ultimately constructed -- alongside his Aberdeenshire golf course.

On his latest visit to Scotland, he described those turbines as "some of the ugliest you've ever seen".

When Trump bought the Menie estate, about eight miles north of Aberdeen, in 2006, he promised to create the "world's greatest" golf course.

But he soon became infuriated at plans to construct an offshore wind farm nearby, arguing that the "windmills" - as he prefers to call the structures - would ruin the view. ...

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-22 06:17 PM | Reply