At least during the Trump administration (and hopefully they’ll die forever).
As he correctly points out, windmill parts are not recyclable, are detrimental to animal life, including whales, and are the most expensive form of energy per kilowatt hour produced.
“In all fairness, Germany tried it, and wind doesn’t work,” Trump said. “You need subsidy for wind, and energy should not need subsidy. With energy, you make money, you don’t lose money. But more important than that, it ruins the landscape, it kills the birds, they’re noisy.”
He said that in coastal Massachusetts more whales have washed ashore recently because the windmills are “driving them loco, it’s driving them crazy.”
The Department of the Interior (DOI) will release five policy updates on Tuesday afternoon to better align the agency with President Donald Trump‘s affordable energy agenda, the Daily Mail has exclusively learned.
Part of that mission is to cut federal funding to renewable wind energy sources like wind turbines on land and off-shore.
The order seeks to end ‘preferential treatment for unreliable energy sources like wind,’ according to a drafted press release obtained by the Daily Mail.
It also will prompt the DOI to identify policies favoring wind and solar energy and halt spending on ‘energy supply chains controlled by foreign rivals.’ Notably, China leads the globe in turbine and solar power manufacturing.
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The DOI order will also prompt the department to review avian mortality rates caused by wind energy projects in migratory birds’ flight paths
Bird deaths that are caused by legal activities are considered ‘incidental’ under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) and the DOI will study whether wind turbines qualify for legal protections under the law.
If not, turbine operators could be on the hook for killing birds even if it is unintentional.
Trump has noted in the past that American bald eagles were being killed by turbines in California.
Now if we could just get rid of the ones that are already in place….. But if the turbine operators are liable, I can see them coming down pretty quick!
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