Judge issues injunction reversing Trump regime ‘pause’ on Dominion offshore wind project

Donald Trump had his regime hit the pause button on offshore wind projects on the East Coast last month, because he doesn’t like “windmills.”

A federal judge, on Friday, granted an injunction allowing Dominion Energy to return to work on its Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project.

Now, it’s just an injunction, so the advice would be, proceed from here with caution.

“Our team will now focus on safely restarting work to ensure CVOW begins delivery of critical energy in just weeks,” a Dominion Energy spokesperson told CNBC in a statement Friday.

“While our legal challenge proceeds, we will continue seeking a durable resolution of this matter through cooperation with the federal government,” the spokesperson said.

Good plan there.

The Trump regime used the comical excuse “national security risks” in its announcement of the pause to the offshore wind projects, and then said the “risks” are hidden in “recently completed classified reports,” which you had to read as them saying: take our word for it.

The pause, we all knew, was about two things: the wind turbines adjoining his failing golf course in Scotland that he has been fighting for years, and the oil companies that donated billions to his re-election campaign, and are cashing in their chips.

See, the Biden administration was moving the country toward a goal of dramatically boosting our wind-power capabilities, which provide power at a cost of pennies on the dollar to oil, when you account for the environmental damage of oil.

The likes of ExxonMobil and Chevron could have made moves decades ago to position themselves market-wise to be the leaders in the green-energy sector, but they instead doubled down on fossil fuels, because what do they care about the environment 40, 50, 100 years from now?

The people making these calls will long be dead by the time the piper needs to be paid.

The $9.8 billion Dominion Energy offshore wind project, consisting of 176 wind turbines, each designed to generate 14.7 megawatts, located 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, is projected to be able to generate enough clean energy to power up to 660,000 homes.