Trump administration cancels plans to develop new offshore wind projects
The Trump administration cancels plans to use large federal water areas for new offshore wind development, the last step to remove industry in the United States.
More than 3.5 million acres had been designated by wind energy areas, the offshore locations deemed most suitable for the development of wind energy. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management now cancels all the wind energy areas designated in federal waters, announcing on Wednesday the end of the setting aside large areas for “speculative development of the wind”.
Sales of offshore wind rentals were planned off the coast of Texas, Louisiana, Maine, New York, California and Oregon, as well as in the central Atlantic. The Biden administration last year announced a five -year calendar to rent federal offshore sectors for wind energy production.
Trump began to reverse the country’s energy policies after taking office in January. A series of decrees has aimed to increase the production of oil, gas and coal.
The republican president was hostile to renewable energies, in particular the offshore wind. Early decree temporarily interrupted sales of offshore wind rentals in federal waters and has interrupted the issue of approvals, permit and loans for all wind projects. By trying to plead in question against wind energy, he relied on false and misleading affirmations on the use of wind energy in the United States and in the world.
The office said that it was acting in accordance with Trump’s action and an interior secretary prescription this week to end any preferential treatment towards wind and solar installations, which have been described as unreliable and controlled energy sources abroad.
The general prosecutors of 17 states and the Columbis district continue the Federal Court to challenge the executive order of Trump, interrupting the rental and allows it to wind energy projects. His administration had also interrupted the work on a large offshore wind project for New York, but allowed him to resume in May.
The first offshore wind farm on the country’s commercial scale, a 12 turbine wind farm called South Fork, opened last year in the east of Montauk Point, New York.
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