Connecticut, Rhode Island, winding gigant ORSSED SUE Trump administration for canceling almost completed offshore projects
Connecticut, Rhode Island and a wind farm developer at sea that would drive 350,000 houses in two countries on Thursday that they were suing Trump’s administration to stop an almost completed project.
General Prosecutor Rhode Island Peter Neronha accuses President Donald Trump of leading a “complete attack” of wind energy industry. The Court of States, filed at the US District Court in Rhode Island, describes the Revolution Wind project as the “cornerstone” of their future of pure energy, suddenly federal officials without a “static body, regulatory reasoning or bill”.
The Danish Energy Company Obsted filed separate consequences at the US District Court in Washington and also claimed that the administration lacks the legal authority to block the Revolution Wind project. Obsted said he would seek a preliminary order that would allow him to move forward with a project that is 80% full, with all underwater foundations and 45 out of 65 turbines installed.
Ministry spokesman Elizabeth Peace said on Thursday that the ministry is not, as we hang up in litigation.
The work on the project was suspended on August 22, when the Energy Energy Management Office issued an order to stop what was stated was concerns about national security. These concerns were not over.
Trump was hostile to renewable energy, a particular coastal window and favored fossil fuels for electricity. The revolutionary wind is the second main wind project that the Hist Administration ordered to stop the work. The first, coastal wind project for New York, was later allowed to continue the construction.
In Sepure’s recent Federal Court, the administration said it was re -evaluating approval for three other window farms: Maryland Offshore Project, Southcoast Wind and New England Wind. These projects could drive nearly 2.5 million houses in Maryland, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Democratic Sens. Ed Marekey and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said that Trump and his cabinet “must end the war on American energy and employment.
“Swarm attacks” quoted as a reason for stopping work
Interior Minister Doug Burgum said CNN that he is interested in coastal wind turbines distortion of radar detection systems that could give the wrong actors to “start a swarm of drones through a wind farm”.
In retirement, the Navy CMDr. Kirk Lippold called this “reliable and false narrative” that someone pushed with “excessive imagination in finding a problem that does not exist”. Lippold commanded the USS Cole when Al-Qaida attacked him in the port of Yemen in 2000.
If the drones get so close to the American shores to be near the window farm without being detailed by the army, “We had massive intelligence – national security – failure.”
US SEN. Jack Reed, Rhode Island Democrat and National Security expert, also questioned the rational administration, which was involved in the involvement of the Ministry of Defense in the project review.
When the revolutionary wind approved in 2023 in 2023, the Ocean Energy Administration said he had consulted with the Ministry of Defense at every stage of the regulatory process for the leasing area assigned to the wind farm. The DOD concluded that with some provisions on the place of safety, it would be “negligible and prevented” according to the recording of the decision and any impact on its training and wind energy activities.
It took about nine years to state and federal reviews.
Trump and several cabinet members have repeatedly killed wind energy like ugly and expensive during the last week of the cabinet meeting. Minister of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He talked about the failure of the massive wind turbine blades on another wind farm at sea in construction outside Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Glass fiber fragments from the vineyard windy project have disintegrated and began to wash on the shore last summer during the top of the tourist season. GE Vernova has agreed to pay $ 10.5 million to settle for compensation of island enterprises that suffered losses due to blade failure.
The Kennedy family opposed the previous unsuccessful wind project near the family Cape Cod Estate.
Trump said, “We will not allow any windmills to go up if there is no legal situation where someone has been committed long ago.”
Wind farm was on the way to energy supply in 2026
The revolutionary wind was expired to be the first large wind farm at the sea of Rhode Island and Connecticut, which was able to provide about 2.5% of electricity need in the region.
ORSSTED started construction in 2024 about 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of the coast of Rhode Island. The complaint states that approximately $ 5 billion was spen or committed and expected that if the project is canceled, more than $ 1 billion. Rhode Island is already home to one wind farm at sea, a wind farm on the island of five turbines.
Rhode Island and Connecticut said that the stopping of revolutionary wind would be damaged by states, its inhabitants, investments and wind sectors at sea. More than 1,000 people are working on the wind farm, and Connecticut has committed more than $ 200 million to rebuild the State Pier in New London to support this industry.
States have said that they rely on electricity from the revolutionary wind, especially in winter, asking in the spikes of New England and natural gas are preferred for heating. The strength would cost 9.8 cents per kilowatt -hour, locked for 20 years. This is cheaper than the average expected energy costs in New England.
The head of the Agency for the Environmental and Energy Agency in Connecticut, Katie Dykes, predicts that it will cost state electricity taxpayers of tens of millions of dollars, unless the wind project comes online. It also experienced a risk for electricity in New England quoted by the independent system operator in the region.
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This report was contributed to by Associated Press Matthew in Washington and Susan Haigh in Hartford, Connecticut.
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