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Trump administration cites national security in stalling 165 wind farms
MicroWaveThe Trump administration has brought US onshore wind development to a halt citing national security concerns, representing a major escalation in the president’s crusade against renewable energy.
Approvals for about 165 onshore wind projects on private lands are being stalled by the Department of Defense, including wind farms that were awaiting final sign-off, others in the middle of negotiations, and some that typically would not require oversight by the department, according to the American Clean Power Association (ACP) and people close to the matter.
Wind farms require routine approval from the Defense Department to ensure they do not interfere with radar systems. This typically involves the level of risk being assessed and the developer paying an agreed sum for the army to update its radar filter system so it can locate the windmill. Some projects can be deemed not to pose a risk due to their distance from army facilities and flight paths. Normally these assessments can take as little as a few days to complete.
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Seems like the super genius wealthy investor would understand the importance of diversifying your assets. Guess not :shrug:
He literally just doesn’t like seeing them from his golf courses. That’s it, that’s the entire reason.
And I still don’t get the hate. Personally I think they look neat. Beats a big ugly building, and one potentially spewing smoke.
So, you’re telling us we should paint them gold and stick his orange fuckface on them to get them approved?
GutterRat42“National Security” has been used to:
- Make routers more expensive
- Make electronics more expensive
- Make energy more expensive
- Make it easier to spy on Americans in American soil
- Try to make us pay for a ballroom
KairuByteHey new, its a really really nice ballroom, or something.
Misusing national security should be grounds for imprisonment. Just add it to his long list of felonies.
Ah yes, because making us more susceptible to fluctuations in the global energy market increases our security…brilliant.
I hope the next president authorizes surrounding mar-a-lago with wind generators. Make them extra loud.
So it is in the best interest of our national security to be more dependent on oil, as recently demonstrated?
SternYeah the value of the oil we use for our energy is dependent on foreign adversaries, but the real national security issue is the fucking wind turbine chilling on our own coastline…
Oh and the whales. Republicans suddenly care about whales. Well… Ok… not those whales that are protected because they’re about to go extinct. We removed the protection for those whales so we could drill for oil there…. But the ones near the wind turbines, those whales we really care about!
Republican = GOP = Gas and Oil Party. Everything they do can be traced to trying to benefit Oil and Gas companies.
Using “security” as an excuse to funnel money towards the Oil & Gas industry instead of Renewable Energy. That’s what’s happening here. While real security means diversifying into all forms of energy, not stalling any. (more O&G is actually bad for security when you consider climate damage).
MinnesotaGoddamWindmills are a national security threat? How?
Fizz
Captain Aggravated“The nation” here defined as Israel and their assets, ie the American politicians they blackmail.
Because we have to import most of our wind from China? I mean, where does wind come from, really?
Isn’t that president the biggest threat to national security? Aside from from being a criminal and the most named person in the Epstein files.
I fewl like it’s a national security risk to not have energy independence from fossil fuels as a consumable. My gas price says so. And the coming food and plastics shortages that are on the way as well.
If it gets us to kick fossil fuels, that’d be great imo. Remove the oil subsidies! Ya’ll wanted to cut government spending, right?
mannycalaveraI suppose that’s why you need to invade all those oil producing nations, right? Makes sense.
Just shut off all the solar and turbines - er.. “windmills”, until he acknowledges the problem he’s caused.
Shooting ourselves in the foot to try to get the guy who notoriously will not admit to mistakes to admit his mistake is a bold suggestion…
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We MUST Ensure that our Energy is
RUN and Protected by US!Under control of ENEMY Countries!-National Security Republicans!
Gotta protect the oil and coal companies who continue to write me those checks. – the orange Cheeto
Fuck this guy, he is singlehandedly trying to stop energy independence in the U.S.
Oh wait, that’s not what this is about. The orange bafoon is mad he can’t control the global supply of oil anymore if renewable energy is the dominant energy source.
He got half a billion dollars from the oil industry. It was a good investment for them. Sure, it fucked over farmers, truckers and working class people but rich people got to get a lot richer and that’s the most important thing.
I mean, he’s right to panic about the growth of cheap renewable energy as a threat to national security. The shrinking global demand for oil being sold in US dollars will decimate the ability of the US to impose economic sanctions on countries it doesn’t like. That will directly lead to less national security.
The problem is that while he can frustrate domestic demand to build this stuff, he can’t stop it globally, and building clean energy will continue exponentially. The oil decline is unstoppable, so the primary result of these actions will be to make the US further behind the energy future and economically disadvantaged on top of the petrodollar decline.
Ironically, starting a war with Iran seems to be quickening the global pace of EV sales and renewable energy adoption.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZRTntfabOA
Yeah, but he did that so he could look cool in front of his crush, Netanyahu.
Trump loves it when multiple people
paybribe him for the same action.Isn’t messing with other countries what leads to more threats to the US, aka less security?
The greatest threat to national security doesn’t come from the outside, it’s the people inside that aren’t onboard with the regime’s plans. The idea of threats from abroad results in the erosion of liberty at home under the guise of homeland security. We’re the ones they’re securing their homeland from.
It’s a very complicated picture in the details and you’re not wrong. I’m just pointing out that while invoking “national security” as a reason to deny windmills (that he openly hates even when not indebted to Big Oil’s $1B political contributions) sounds ludicrous at first, there is undoubtedly some twisted logic to the claim.
Trump’s recipe is to weaken the US globally. Meanwhile every other country in the world is building renewables as quickly as possible. The petro dollar is fucked, trump is a pedophile and a fucking idiot. We’re losing a race we could easily dominate because half of the US to too fucking dumb to tie their shoes.
He’s not an idiot, his family is making bank. When everything’s fucked they can just leave.
Absolutely evil, but they are meeting their objectives. It’s the true American way: “I got mine, fuck you”
If you read “national security” as a reason anywhere, you can read that as “bullshit”. True for any administration.
They probably threw “think for the children” in for good measure
I mean with oil so cheap whats the point of renewals. /s
Russian national security.
good luck USA if they start having a Coal/Gas crisis.
If?
When!