From CFACT

By David Wojick

President Trump’s day one Executive Order (EO) on wind power is a clear threat to the offshore wind projects that are under construction but they seem to be ignoring this threat. I find no evidence that they are disclosing this threat to the public or their stockholders.

The EO is quite clear in initiating an investigation into terminating these leases. Here is the text:

“With respect to such existing leases, the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Attorney General as needed, shall conduct a comprehensive review of the ecological, economic, and environmental necessity of terminating or amending any existing wind energy leases, identifying any legal bases for such removal, and submit a report with recommendations to the President, through the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy.”

Here are the five OSW projects under construction listed by owner, with the most relevant statements that I could find on this threat:

1. Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project

“Dominion says offshore wind farm moving forward, despite executive order”

“Trump warned axing largest US offshore wind farm would be ‘most inflationary action’”

https://virginiabusiness.com/dominion-says-offshore-wind-farm-moving-forward-despite-executive-order/

“Dominion Energy CEO Bob Blue doesn’t foresee impacts from President Donald Trump’s halting offshore wind leasing and permitting to its mammoth 2.6GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project currently in at-sea construction.”

https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/trump-warned-axing-largest-us-offshore-wind-farm-would-be-most-inflationary-action/2-1-1778958

2. Orsted’s Revolution Wind and Sunrise Wind projects

“Orsted’s Sunrise Wind and Revolution wind projects that are under construction offshore New York and New England respectively should not be impacted by Trump’s order, CEO Rasmus Errboe told investors the company’s company’s Feb. 6 earnings call. Future developments, however, may be at risk.

“We are fully committed to moving them forward and deliver on our commitments,” Errboe said. “We do not expect that the executive order will have any implications on assets under construction, but of course for assets under development, it’s potentially a different situation.”“

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/16/trumps-broadside-against-wind-industry-puts-projects-that-could-power-millions-of-homes-at-risk.html

3. Equinor’s Empire Wind project

“But the international companies behind Empire Wind and Sunrise Wind say they are committed to protecting their investments and completing the projects amid the uncertainty as the “best way to create and protect shareholder value,” as Equinor’s CFO put it in a recent earnings call.”

4. Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and Avangrid Renewables’ Vineyard Wind project

“Trump’s pause on offshore wind leasing may have limited impact in New England”

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/01/22/trump-wind-executive-order-massachusetts-vineyard-wind

Vineyard Wind itself is understandably silent as they are already in a warm Federal embrace thanks to the debris laden failure of a 70 ton wind tower blade. They were allowed to resume construction just before Trump took office and issued his EO.

Overall it looks like the offshore wind construction projects are simply ignoring the Federal investigation into their legitimacy. Even under Biden the federal leasing agency made it clear that a lease is not a right to build, just a right to make a proposal. The leases themselves contain language allowing the Feds to change them with no limit to how big these changes might be.

Statements by offshore wind developers that their federal leases are not subject to the Presidents Executive Order are simply incorrect. The investigation into terminating these leases in underway.

Stay tuned to CFACT to see how this multi-billion dollar story plays out.

By Jo Nova

While careers and statues have died at the merest hint of not refuting slavery hard enough, the UK Labour Party will make sure slave-made-solar panels will still be imported to the UK, and the people exploiting the slaves will still be paid.

We have to ask, O’ Great Moral Guardians, was it because there aren’t enough solar panels that are not slave-made, and if we stop supporting the slavers, the only panels left will cost a fortune? Is the big fear that it will blow the climate budget, or make green electricity even more absurdly expensive?

Or are we saying that the lives of slaves in 2025 are not as important as cooling the world by 0.0001 degrees 100 years from now?

h/t Tom Nelson

By Harriet Line, The Daily Mail, UK.

Peers had sought to stop taxpayers’ cash from being used to buy products from a company where there was ‘credible evidence’ of modern slavery in its supply chain.

But the Government will whip its MPs to vote against the Lords amendment to the Great British Energy Bill in the Commons today, meaning solar panels made with forced labour could end up on the roofs of hundreds of schools and NHS sites.

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband admitted last week that some solar panels bought for a £180 million project for schools and hospitals will come from China. The country is responsible for 80 per cent of the global supply of solar panels, and the Xinjiang region produces up to 40 per cent of polysilicon – a key component.

Coming soon, far-right extremists will demand that solar panels should be slave-free, and made with renewable energy, instead of burning more coal in China.

Ladies and Gentlemen, whenever you need to cut down the smug and sanctimonious, ask: What, exactly, have you done to stop the slavers profiting from climate change?

Globalists hate workers at home and abroad. Make them suffer.

And lets not forget the people in internment camps in Xingjian: