President Trump has ended plans for a massive wind farm in the state of Idaho that was approved by Joe Biden. Trump’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum played a big role in this by discovering some legal issues with the project.
Trump has been a longtime critic of wind farms, noting that they are ugly, an unreliable form of energy, and dangerous to wildlife, particularly birds.
Democrats and the media are going to lose their minds over this.
Townhall reports:
President Donald Trump’s Interior Department will stop a large wind farm in Idaho, a project approved by former President Joe Biden.
The Lava Ridge Wind Project, approved in December 2024 by the Biden administration’s Bureau of Land Management, was expected to be a 1,000-megawatt wind farm with up to 231 wind turbines across nearly 57,447 acres in southern Idaho.
But officials at the Interior Department found “crucial legal deficiencies” with Biden’s approval of the project, including certain statutorily binding criteria that were ignored, according to a press release announcing the decision to terminate the wind farm project.
Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum reversed the Biden administration’s approval of the Lava Ridge Wind Project. The Department of the Interior “will no longer provide preferential treatment towards unreliable, intermittent power sources that harm rural communities, livelihoods and the land,” the department said in a news release.
This is from the Department of the Interior press release:
Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is restoring common sense to American energy policy by reversing the Biden administration’s misguided, last-minute push to approve the Lava Ridge Wind Project, an enormous and unpopular 1,000-megawatt wind facility in southern Idaho, during the final days of the former president’s term. Under President Donald J. Trump, the Department of the Interior will no longer provide preferential treatment towards unreliable, intermittent power sources that harm rural communities, livelihoods and the land, such as the Lava Ridge Wind Project and the radical Green New Scam agenda that burdens our nation and public lands…
“Under President Donald Trump’s bold leadership, the Department is putting the brakes on deficient, unreliable energy and putting the American people first,” said Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum. “By reversing the Biden administration’s thoughtless approval of the Lava Ridge Wind Project, we are protecting tens of thousands of acres from harmful wind policy while shielding the interests of rural Idaho communities. This decisive action defends the American taxpayer, safeguards our land, and averts what would have been one of the largest, most irresponsible wind projects in the nation.”
There are a lot of people in rural Idaho who did not want this wind farm in the first place. They must be celebrating this move by Trump right now.
