The 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.
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.