Trump interrupt work on an offshore wind project 80% complete, citing “national security interests” not specified “

The Danish developer of the Orsted wind farm says that the wind turbine Revolution project is around 80% complete, 45 of its 65 turbines already installed.

Despite this progress – and the fact that the project had eliminated years of federal and state examination – the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management made the order on Friday, saying that the federal government should review the project and “respond to concerns related to the protection of national security interests in the United States”.

He did not specify national security problems.

President Donald Trump has made progress to prioritize fossil fuels and hinder renewable energy projects. Trump recently called the Wind and Solar Energy “the scam of the century!” In an article on social networks and promised not to approve the wind projects or to destroy it from farmers “.” The days of stupidity are ended in the United States !!! “He wrote on his social site of truth this week.

Scientists around the world agree that nations must quickly embrace renewable energies to avoid the worst effects of climate change, including heat and extreme drought; Forest fires larger and more intense and hurricanes, typhoons and rain storms that lead to catastrophic floods.

The governor of Rhode Island, Dan McKee, criticized the working order and said that he and the governor of Connecticut Ned Lamont “would continue each avenue to reverse the decision to stop the work on the wind of the revolution” in an article on X. The two governors are democrats.

The construction of Revolution Wind began in 2023 and the project should be fully operational next year. Orsted says that he assesses the financial impact of the construction judgment and envisages legal proceedings.

Revolution Wind is located more than 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of the Côte du Rhode Island, 32 miles (51 kilometers) south-east of the Connecticut Coast and 12 miles (19 kilometers) south-west of Martha’s Vineyard. The Rhode Island already houses an offshore wind farm, the Island five turbine wind farms.

Revolution Wind should be Rhode Island and the first offshore wind farm at Connecticut’s commercial scale, capable of propeling more than 350,000 houses. Denlessly populated states have a minimum space available for land energy projects, which is why the offshore wind project is considered crucial for states to reach their climatic objectives.

“This arbitrary decision defies all logic and reason – the Wind revolution project was already in progress and employed hundreds of traders and qualified women. It is a major setback for a critical project in Connecticut, and I will fight it,” said the Senator of Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, in a press release.

Wind energy is the largest source of renewable energy in the United States and provides around 10% of the electricity produced in the country.

“Today, the United States only has one large-scale wind project projection of large-scale wind projects. This is not enough to meet American growing energy needs. We need more energy of all types, including oil and gas, wind and new and emerging technologies, “said Erik Milito, President of the National Ocean Industries Association, a group that supports oil, gas and gas outside.

The green oceans, a non -profit organization that opposes the offshore wind industry, applauded the Boem decision. “We are grateful that the Trump administration and the federal government are taking significant measures to preserve the fragile ocean environment off the coast of the Rhode Island and Massachusetts,” the non -profit organization said in a statement.

It is the second major offshore wind project that the White House stopped. The work was arrested on Empire Wind, an offshore wind project from New York, but the construction was authorized to resume after the New York senator, Chuck Schumer, and Governor Kathy Hochul, the two Democrats, intervened.

“This administration has exactly upside down. He tries to support clumsy and polluting coal power plants while doing everything that can stop energy sources with the fastest growth of the future – solar and wind energy,” Kit Kennedy said, Director General of the Natural Resources Power Division Defense Council, in a press release. “Unfortunately, each American pays the price of these erroneous decisions.”