Economic fallout mounts as Trump halts near-finished wind power project
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Now to the latest on President Trump's War on Wind Power. |
| 0:04.0 | Last month, the administration abruptly halted construction on a nearly finished $6 billion, 65-turbine wind farm off the coast of New England, known as Revolution Wind. |
| 0:15.0 | The holdup has put thousands out of work and raises big questions about not just the future of this project, but similar |
| 0:21.3 | efforts across the eastern seaboard. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien's been covering it all. |
| 0:26.0 | He joins us now from Groton, Connecticut. So, Miles, we can see this huge project behind you. |
| 0:31.4 | I'm assuming that's part of Revolution Wind. Why has it been such a big deal in this battle |
| 0:36.7 | over wind power? It's a big deal because been such a big deal in this battle over wind power? |
| 0:38.4 | It's a big deal because it's a big project on the 700 megawatts, which equates to |
| 0:44.8 | power for 350,000 homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut. It's run by a company called |
| 0:52.0 | Orsted out of Denmark. Over my shoulder, you'll see a |
| 0:55.7 | giant vessel, which is a wind turbine installation vessel. Vessels like these cost more than |
| 1:02.8 | $260,000 a day. So the meter is running on a ship that should be out 20 miles from where I am |
| 1:10.6 | doing its work to finish this project, |
| 1:13.4 | which is at the 80% completion state. I saw this machine in action, the latter part of last |
| 1:20.6 | year in December. It's an extraordinary thing. That whole thing jacks up and the turbines are built |
| 1:27.1 | and the blades are put on. The project is big and its sudden |
| 1:32.7 | stop is a big loss for the economy here. I sat down with the governor of Rhode Island, Dan McKee. |
| 1:38.7 | I don't think the Trump administration really understands the consequences of this action, right? |
| 1:45.0 | And the job loss, the energy loss, the loss in terms of our ability to compete. |
| 1:51.2 | And then the other thing that it sends is the signal to businesses. |
| 1:55.0 | What are permits worth if all of a sudden when you're 80% in a project, regardless |
| 2:00.8 | of what the project is, |
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