The Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue fossil fuel projects in the US.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/23/climate/trump-totalenergies-offshore-wind-cancellation
Just to be clear, this money was already spent by the previous administration on federal leases that were going to be used to build these offshore farms. The government will now be reimbursing the company the money it spent on those leases. Not quite just paying the company to not do something like the headline makes it seem. But that’s now $1 billion that could certainly be put to better use elsewhere that will be wasted paying this company back.
It’s also embarrassingly short sided for a myriad of reasons but that doesn’t matter anymore. We’re great again!
it’s about the offshore view from his golf course. self-serving scumbag. needs oil platforms
I can’t imagine thinking wind turbines are ugly. There’s something wrong with conservative brains
Many things wrong with them.
As a huge metal fan I love this but as a wind power fan I regret to inform you those aren’t made of metal, they’re composite, metal is weigh too heavy and expensive.
STOP GIVING AWAY OUR MONEY, FUCKO
I would like to throw my hat in the ring and say that I will not build a wind farm for a mere $500M
shit, I won’t do it if they call it square on my medical bills.
I’m a cheap date.
Again the ever quixotic Don tilts at windmills! Onward, Rocinante!
The Interior Department hailed the “innovative agreement” with the French energy giant and said, “the American people will no longer pay for ideological subsidies that benefited only the unreliable and costly offshore wind industry.″
I want these ghouls to not be alive anymore man
Won’t anyone think about the oil?
Also, won’t anyone think about the fact that Trump literally makes energy policy based on the fact that he thinks wind turbines are ugly?
Shoot… I would have not built a wind farm for only a million!
Think theyll pay my company to not install the ~4M in solar we have lined up?
Hey I’m not going to build windmills either, where the fuck is my check?
Paying not to build something feels like the most expensive way to do nothing.
It’s to build fossil fuel plants instead.
They are not really getting paid, they are getting the money back they paid for windfarm permits and in exchange they have to invest the money in oil and gas in the US.
Now the French will learn that Trump never pays his bills, the check is in the mail so to speak
Oh, it’s not his money? I got nothing
Pay them 1 billion, they pay someone else 900 million to do it instead. +100 million profits
Is this notheonion?
