Trump administration says it's halting offshore wind projects over national security risks

[Omaha Steve]

Source: CBS News

By Aimee Picchi
Updated on: December 22, 2025 / 10:57 AM EST / CBS News

The Trump administration said on Monday that it is suspending leases for five offshore U.S. wind farms because of national security risks identified by the Department of Defense in classified reports.

The Department of the Interior "is PAUSING leases for 5 expensive, unreliable, heavily subsidized offshore wind farms! ONE natural gas pipeline supplies as much energy as these 5 projects COMBINED," Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wrote in a social media post.

In a statement emailed to CBS News, the administration said it is pausing the following wind farm leases:

Vineyard Wind 1

Revolution Wind

CVOW – Commercial

Sunrise Wind

Empire Wind 1

The Interior Department didn't disclose the specific security issues raised by the Defense Department, instead pointing to unclassified federal reports that have found wind projects can create risks because the movement of turbine blades, combined with their reflective towers, can create radar interference.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-offshore-wind-projects-leasing-security-risks/

[jls4561]

1. This administration believes that knowing the accurate height and weight of the squatter in the WH id

a matter of national security.

[dalton99a]

5. +1

[Nasruddin]

2. RFK Jr

I detect the hand of one of the puppeteers behind this

[mahina]

3. Loathesome.

"This is a desperate rerun of the Trump administration's failed attempt to kill offshore wind – an effort the courts have already rejected," said Kate Sinding Daly, senior vice president for law and policy at CLF. "Many of these clean energy projects passed years of rigorous review, were upheld in court, and are moving forward. Trying again to halt these projects tramples on the rule of law, threatens jobs, and deliberately sabotages a critical industry that strengthens, not weakens, America's energy security."

[sinkingfeeling]

4. How many 'national security' threats have there been in the last 12 months? Must be in the hundreds since TSF

deems everything, including the need to built a $400 million monstrous ballroom, on national security.

[NotHardly]

6. Oh for the love of god...I don't want to know what is next.

Insanity is being legitimized.

[mahina]

7. All in blue states, some delivering hundreds of megawatts now

Vineyard Wind project under construction in Massachusetts, Revolution Wind in Rhode Island and Connecticut, Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, and two projects in New York: Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind.

From the CT Mirror:
“The action marks the second time the Trump administration has attempted to halt work on Revolution Wind, a 704-megawatt project that is being staged at the State Pier in New London. That project is already 85% completed, according to the developers.

In August, Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a stop-work order that similarly cited national security concerns. The project’s developers sued along with the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and a month later a U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth issued an injunction allowing work on the project to continue.

In a statement Monday morning, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong called the administration’s latest action a “brazen attempt to circumvent” the injunction.


“The project has been vetted and approved through every layer of federal and state regulatory process, including a careful review of the issues raised in this announcement,” Tong said. “Every day this project is stalled is another day of lost work, another day of unaffordable energy costs, and other day burning fossil fuels when American-made clean energy is within reach.”

The attorney general added that his office is “evaluating all legal options.”

[sop]

8. In 1952 Charles Wilson, GM CEO/Secretary of War said, "What's good for General Motors is good for the country."

In 2024 Donald Trump said, "What's good for Big Oil is good for the country." (The phrase used by media to describe Trump's energy policy and his transactional approach to campaign fundraising from oil executives.)

[turbinetree]

9. BS................

maybe they can read this article about 3D radars imaging............


https://www.airtraffictechnologyinternational.com/content/in-depth/solving-the-challenge-of-wind-farms-and-radar

[CousinIT]

10. It's just another made-up excuse to shut something down they dislike. Like "DEI" is. n/t

[NotHardly]

11. Insanity

[FredGarvin]

12. I hope we fight back!

nevermind

[DrFunkenstein]

13. All those fighter jets getting sucked into the turbines!

Will no one think of the fighter jets!?!

[Old Crank]

14. Now we just need to permit a couple of coal plants

upwind of Mar Lumbago. With out any scrubbing devices.

[Rcanouse]

15. Oil rigs in the Gulf of "America" should be shut down too

[OldBaldy1701E]

16. My exact thought!

Because there is no way one could be creating interference without the other doing the same thing.

[GiqueCee]

17. Earlier today...

... I read a post from someone who manned a radar facility that said in essence, that Hegseth's national security claim was wall-to-wall, knee-deep, pull-up-your-pants-it's-too-late-to-save-your-shoes BULLSHIT.
These idiots just don't know when to shut the fuck up. But Trump's trademark reaction to any challenge to his lies is to double down and attack the person that challenged his lies. And so, here we go again. God, I hate these people.