Democrats are desperately trying to fight against Trump’s agenda.
But they just lost ground on one of the most obsessive fights yet.
And Donald Trump is running a victory lap after going to battle this one Democrat Governor.
New Jersey Democrat Governor throws in the towel on major offshore wind project
Democrats have recently been embracing a radical new plan within their far-left green energy agenda – offshore wind farming.
Former President Joe Biden wasted tens of billions of taxpayer dollars trying to help build the leftist pipedream of offshore wind farms on the East Coast.
He argued that they would push to power roughly 10 million homes with this radical idea by the year 2030.
With Donald Trump now in the White House, however, the development of wind energy farming has been indefinitely suspended.
The Democrat Governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, has even conceded efforts to contribute to the Atlantic Shores offshore wind farm, which would include the coastline outside of Atlantic City.
In 2017, Murphy was elected to Governor with an extremely ambitious promise to build up wind energy for the Garden State.
Murphy, who is term-limited and can no longer seek re-election, is exiting the executive position after offshore wind turned into a massive failure that he could no longer boast.
During his 8 years in office, not a single wind farm was constructed and his promise lay dead in the water.
Murphy once claimed that the massive and controversial offshore wind project was a “once-in-a-generation opportunity to create tens of thousands of jobs, drive an entirely new manufacturing supply chain, and secure energy independence.”
But he recently admitted that this is now a failing industry that faces too many uphill challenges at the current moment.
Wind energy falls far short of massive promises
During Murphy’s administration, five offshore wind projects were given the green light for construction, but not a single one of them made it very far beyond the stamp of approval.
The Danish wind energy company called Orsted canceled two of their projects back in 2023, pointing to massive problems between supply chain hiccups and Biden’s rampant inflation.
Atlantic Shores was designed to be an equal partnership between the state of New Jersey as well as massive energy companies such as Shell and EDF.
The project was heavily rooted in the reliance of state funding for the idea to even have a chance of success.
During Biden’s final weeks in office, officials from his administration signed off on as many permits as possible to attempt to move the ball forward.
Two other offshore wind projects, however, are still sitting in limbo awaiting approval for permits from the federal government, but the likelihood of a green light is little to none with Trump back in the Oval Office.
Trump went as far as issuing an executive order to halt all permits for new wind energy projects on his first day on the job.
Proponents of halting these ventures have repeatedly pointed out that wherever offshore wind has been explored, it has only caused massive problems and failed to deliver.
The Vineyard Wind 1 wind energy project, located in Massachusetts, intended to install 62 wind turbines – only one of them is operational.
One of the blades for the turbine ultimately collapsed into the ocean, resulting in massive pieces of fiberglass and debris reportedly washing up onto a local beach and leaving tons of material in the sea.
Donald Trump has remained severely skeptical of wind energy, arguing that these types of energy are not only wildly expensive and completely unreliable but also that they are extremely dangerous and destructive to the environment.
“They destroy everything, they’re horrible, the most expensive energy there is,” Trump argued during a speech in May of 2023. “They ruin the environment, they kill the birds, they kill the whales.”
With Trump’s position on wind energy farming being as clear as it is, New York and other East Coast states are suspending their plans to develop offshore wind projects while Trump is in office.
“New York could come out tomorrow and announce new projects but if we can’t get the federal government to act, then these projects would be dead in the water,” argued Adrienne Esposito, executive director of the Citizens Campaign for the Environment.
“New York is somewhat handcuffed by the lack of a federal government that values wind,” she added.
Donald Trump has finally put an end to the radical offshore wind energy industry, and future projects are likely to take decades to come back together.
