{"id":407319,"date":"2025-10-09T17:24:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=407319"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:24:38","slug":"biden-admin-streamlined-path-for-offshore-wind-boondoggles-despite-internal-red-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=407319","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Streamlined Path For Offshore Wind Boondoggles Despite Internal Red Flags"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Audrey Streb
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The Biden administration granted major offshore wind projects financial breaks despite internal warnings of increased risks to taxpayers, according to documents obtained by the watchdog group Functional Government Initiative (FGI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denmark-based \u00d8rsted\u2019s massive \u201cRevolution Wind\u201d project off the coast of Rhode Island and Connecticut not only received final approval<\/a> in August 2023 under the Biden administration but also an exception that allowed<\/a> the company to postpone the funds for dismantling the project at the end of its life for 15 years, according to the documents<\/a>. Despite internal warnings that this kind of exception \u201cincreases the risk to the federal taxpayer,\u201d the Biden administration granted Revolution Wind and Vineyard Wind<\/a> sweetheart breaks for their decommissioning costs that were estimated at $325 million and $191 million, respectively, according to the documents and FGI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith each revelation, two things become clearer: wind electricity wasn\u2019t ready for primetime, and the Biden administration didn\u2019t care. It was determined to force these projects through no matter the cost, the risks to taxpayers, or the dubious value to the people who pay for electricity and pay federal taxes,\u201d\u00a0FGI<\/a>\u00a0spokesman Roderick Law told the DCNF. \u201cPresident Trump was right to halt projects and put them under careful review to ensure every environmental and safety impact is examined and that the taxpayers are at risk propping up failing, untested efforts.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(RELATED: \u2018David And Goliath\u2019: Offshore Wind Opponents Ecstatic With Trump\u2019s Day One Assault Against Industry)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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