States promise to fight the working order of Trump’s official on the offshore wind farm | US News

The Democratic governors of Rhode Island and Connecticut promised on Saturday to fight against a Trump administration order, interrupting work on an almost complete wind farm off their coast which was to be operational next year.

The Wind Project revolution was around 80%complete, with 45 of its 65 turbines already installed, according to the developer of the Danish wind farm Ørsted, when the US Ocean Energy Management Bureau sent a letter to order it to “stop all the ongoing activities”.

“In particular, Boem is trying to respond to concerns related to the protection of national security interests in the United States,” wrote Matt Giacona, agency’s acting director, adding that Ørsted cannot resume activities “until the agency has completed an examination of the project.

The Giacona said that the project, which had already eliminated years of federal and state criticism, must now be re -examined in the light of the order of Donald Trump, the first day of his second mandate, to consider “put an end or modify the existing wind energy leases”.

The Giacona, whose previous work as a lobbyist of the offshore petroleum industry alarmed consumer defenders, also said that the examination was necessary to “respond to concerns related to the protection of national security interests in the United States”. He did not specify what these national security problems are.

The governor of Rhode Island, Dan McKee, criticized the working order and said that the governor of Connecticut, Ned Lamont, “will continue each avenue to reverse the decision to stop the work on the wind of the revolution”, which was “a few steps from more than 350,000 houses”.

Senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, linked Trump’s reported on the land reported to the leaders of the petroleum industry last year to exchange campaign donations of $ 1 billion for regulatory favors. “When the petroleum industry presented itself in Mar-A-Lago with a set of requests in exchange for a billion dollars in campaign support from Trump, this is what they asked for: the destruction of clean energy in America,” Murpy said in a statement.

“This is a history of corruption, simple and simple. President Trump has sold our country to large companies with the petroleum and gas industry at the top of the list,” added the senator. “I will work with my colleagues and Governor Lamont to continue all the legal paths to put this project on the right track.”

Since his return to his duties, Trump has taken radical measures to prioritize fossil fuels and hinder renewable energy projects. Throughout his stay in the public service, Trump repeatedly spoke of his visceral hatred for wind energy, apparently caused by his conviction that offshore turbines spoil the views of his golf courts and his embrace of the bizarre theory that “noise causes cancer”.

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 prosecutor general of Rhode Island, Peter Neronha, said on Saturday in a press release that, without the Wind Project revolution, the act of the State on climate law, which aims to use renewable energies to fight against global warming, “is dead in water”.

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

The construction of Revolution Wind began in 2023 and the project should be fully operational next year. ØRSTED indicates that it estimates the financial impact of the cessation of construction and the examination of legal proceedings.

Revolution Wind is located more than 15 miles (24 km) south of the Côte du Rhode Island, 32 miles (51 km) south-east of the Connecticut Coast and 12 miles (19 km) southwest of the Martha 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.

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

The green oceans, a non -profit organization that opposes the offshore wind industry, and continued the Federal Court last year to arrest the wind project of 83,798 acres (33,912 hectares) for environmental reasons, the decision applauded. “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 Trump’s White House stopped. The work has already been arrested on Empire Wind, an offshore wind project from New York, but the construction was authorized to resume after the governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, and Senator Chuck Schumer intervened.

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

The Associated Press contributed the reports