Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects | It’s the third such deal the Interior Department has struck to pay firms to abandon plans for offshore turbines.

4 months ago by silence7 to c/politics

Sanctus 46 points 4 months ago

Just burning fucking money to make everything worse. Kick this cunt in the cunt on his neck.

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lakemalcom 13 points 4 months ago

I don't like cancelling wind projects but there are some incorrect assumptions when you just read this headline.

The company paid $800M for a lease on federal waters to build the wind turbine. This is more akin to a refund than "pay them not to do this". That, and the money will instead be used to build natural gas power, which is stupid for reasons mentioned in the article.

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phar 10 points 4 months ago

The dumbest part of this from their side is that they're just postponing it anyway. Okay maybe the second or third dumbest part

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silence7 7 points 4 months ago

But the fossil fuels industry can rake in profits in the meantime

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ceenote 5 points 4 months ago

The extremely dumb bit is that they could rake in profits anyway, they just have to make the most profits physically possible.

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Zachariah 4 points 4 months ago

it’s not about profit

it’s about power

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NM_Gringo 10 points 4 months ago

This just setting taxpayer money on fire for nothing. It's just staggering.

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Malyca 2 points 4 months ago

Putin ordered him to destroy America so that tracks.

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switcheroo 9 points 4 months ago

All because they aren't bribing Cheeto Mussolini (enough?) and the dinosaur juice companies are more than willing to slurp on a tiny mushroom...

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silence7 5 points 4 months ago

The renewables energy industry tends to be really good for consumers but not so great at producing the kind of concentrated wealth that enables bribery

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DarkFuture 9 points 4 months ago

Dumbest country on the planet?

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Ironfist79 3 points 4 months ago

Yup

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TryingToBeGood 5 points 4 months ago

insanity

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Malyca 3 points 4 months ago

He's using our money for this bullshit

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Boye 2 points 4 months ago

‘Stop the waste’ he said … moron

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