Trump Administration Dumps a Billion Dollars on French Energy Company to Cancel Wind Project

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump Administration announced today that it would be giving a French energy company nearly one billion taxpayer dollars to abandon desperately needed offshore wind projects off the coasts of New York, New Jersey, and North Carolina in favor of expansive oil and gas projects elsewhere. 

Following is reaction from Kit Kennedy at NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council):

"This is the latest in a long, long, long line of gifts the Trump administration has lavished on Big Oil. It comes during CERA Week, the industry's biggest party of the year, making the Trump Administration's priorities painfully clear as regular American's struggle with soaring prices at the pump.

"Everyone agrees that the United States needs more energy. People are clamoring for clean energy projects like these and canceling them is self-defeating. Putting taxpayer money towards ending renewable energy projects is ludicrous—particularly in a moment when international energy prices, and particularly oil, have gone crazy. Remember this anytime the administration utters 'all of the above.'

"Fossil fuels continue to impose massive economic and global instability costs on the United States. If we are serious as a nation about affordability and not being the world's police force, we need to stop propping up fossil fuels. This is the exact opposite of smart energy policy."

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NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) is an international nonprofit environmental organization with more than 3 million members and online activists. Established in 1970, NRDC uses science, policy, law and people power to confront the climate crisis, protect public health and safeguard nature. NRDC has offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Beijing and Delhi (an office of NRDC India Pvt. Ltd).