Trump Administration to Pay German Firm $1.2 Billion to Cancel Wind Leases |

    It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/climate/rwe-trump-offshore-wind-canceled.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3VA.1W08.dokD9QRP-9Qk&smid=url-share

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    9 Comments

    1. Only-Friend-8483 on

      Serious question. Not looking for clever snarky Reddit answers. What is Trump’s issue with offshore wind projects? 

    2. DullFaithlessness82 on

      Imagine a world leader being such a freaking moron that you would pay off the world to make society step backwards.

    3. couchcaptain on

      Hungary is shutting down their nuclear plant, among the Slovakians and Serbians doing similar, due to low volume of water in the Danube, from a never seen before prolonging drought and heatwave.
      They just put out the govt contract bidding for wind farms and all sorts of alternative energy ideas, they are literally praying for companies to start going at it, because Hungary has now a very limited amount of electricity, air conditioning (in a 110F weather) is almost not even possible in many places.
      So, imagine reading what Trump is doing, while well aware of things like what I just wrote above, it’s diabolical what is going on in USA.

      Americans will be so sorry, the reckoning and retribution, the absolutely guaranteed pain and misery they caused and causing for the future generations and the future of USA. It’s really really sad to see and really upsetting that even now Americans don’t’ realize how badly they are screwing up their own country.

    4. thinkB4WeSpeak on

      All the conservatives in Kansas and Missouri are celebrating hard right now, now they won’t have to look at offshore wind turbines

    5. It’s a good deal for the wind farm company. They get money up front. And when this administration is out of power, they will get money again when the next administration asks for a new wind farm.

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