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US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects

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Re: US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects

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post #12

Do I have it right that the two projects that this deal kills off haven't seen any construction work yet? These aren't among the projects that the stop work orders were issued against in December, right?

My quick skim, I think you are right. This is getting them to halt new development, by buying them off with the equivalent of the subsidies the current administration cancelled.

Re: US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects

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Kidnapping the leader of a sovereign nation to put them on show trial and plotting to steal the country's natural resources. Blockading and strangling an island country to the point of economic collapse. Opining out loud about annexing their northern neighbours. The list goes on and on..

Re: US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US (with Canada and Mexico) is self-sufficient with fossil fuel energy.

Sure, if we build out refining capacity for the next ten years. Then we're golden until we run out of the finite well of combustible dead algae. So if you think we can revitalize American manufacturing and resource processing starting now, and you're okay with those investments being worthless in a few decades, and you don't give a shit about rendering the planet significantly less habitable to human life, then yeah,…

another option is not to shit on all countires who do have resources driving the prices up for everyone.

Re: US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects

#27

I know this US government is fully-committed to fossil fuels and about as rabidly anti-renewables as can be, but I'm still shocked to see things like this. And I'm fully aware of Trump's Scotland experience and how that contributed or directly led to this, but, still, shocked. And then I'm also shocked because I know that at least half, if not a good bit more, of US citizens are in agreement with this strategy. Not s…

I'm always gobsmacked when Trump says things like, "We need to get rid of all the wind turbines! They are killing all the birds! Look at the foot of any tower and you'll see nothing but dead birds!"

Is there a single person who things Trump gives a single damn about the birds? It is obviously just a pretext.

Re: US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects

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Fortunately, fossil fuels are a stable and geopolitically risk-free source of energy.

The US (with Canada and Mexico) is self-sufficient with fossil fuel energy.

Unfortunately, we share the planet and the atmosphere with it.

Re: US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects

#29
At least it doesn't seem like a direct payoff. So in that sense the title is clickbait.

> redirect those funds towards fossil fuel production [...] > US interior secretary [says] the deal was worth "nearly $1 billion

The rest of the comments here... yep.

Re: US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects

#30

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>The US, should it survive this administration

This level of doomerism is absurd. Of course the US will survive this administration. I blame the news for making every breathe by whichever opposition seem like the next WWIII.

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