• EvilBit@lemmy.world
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    This is the dumbest shit ever. I hope they bungled a loophole into the deal and the firm will just come back next year and get new leases in different spots or something.

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      The plots have already been leased and demand for electricity is high enough. They probably will just kick these properties over to someone else while taking Trump’s free money.

      But, in the meantime, you get development delays and energy price inflation.

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        Assuming the firm stays in wind power, then it’s basically a $1.2B subsidy for someone else’s wind power project. It’s not ideal, but it’s a silver lining.

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        They probably will just kick these properties over to someone else while taking Trump’s our free money that trump no doubt stole hundreds of millions out of.

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      Couldn’t they rebrand and basically take Trump’s monopoly money to continue the project under a new name?

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        Like I said, loopholes. Paying someone to not do something under specific circumstances that could easily be done under different circumstances is a real smoothbrain move in any domain.

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        No. They no longer have the right to put turbines in the water there. Might be able to do it in state waters where California is talking about an offshore wind deployment.