(DC Pundit) – President Donald Trump has slammed the brakes on a massive, Biden-approved wind farm project in Idaho, a 1,000-megawatt eyesore known as the Lava Ridge Wind Project, and folks in rural Idaho are probably popping champagne right about now.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who has been a thorn in the side of Biden’s green energy pipe dreams, uncovered legal problems with the project and made it clear that this administration isn’t in the business of rubber-stamping every “renewable” boondoggle the environmental left dreams up.
The Department of the Interior’s press release stated: “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…”
Translation: the days of federal agencies handing out favors to politically connected “green” projects that blight the landscape and threaten wildlife are over.
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Trump has never been shy about his disdain for wind farms, calling them ugly, unreliable, and downright dangerous to birds, something environmental activists claim to care about, until their own pet projects start grinding them up like nature’s Cuisinart.
The Lava Ridge project was set to sprawl across vast areas of southern Idaho, consuming rural land and turning open country into a forest of towering turbines. Local residents have been fighting it from the start, warning that it would destroy the beauty of the region, disrupt ranching operations, and hurt property values. But during Biden’s final days in office, his administration decided to ram it through anyway, ignoring the people who actually live there.
That arrogance ended today.
This move by the Trump administration sends a strong message that America’s energy policy will once again be rooted in reality, not in the virtue-signaling fantasies of bureaucrats who have never set foot in rural Idaho. Instead of wasting billions on “intermittent” energy sources that depend on weather conditions, Trump has been pushing for reliable, affordable energy, the kind that doesn’t leave entire towns in the dark when the wind stops blowing.
It’s also a reminder that the so-called “Green New Deal” agenda isn’t about saving the planet — it’s about controlling land, people, and resources. Biden’s team may have tried to sneak this project through, but under President Trump, those days are over.
And for the folks in Idaho who have been staring down the possibility of living in the shadow of 700-foot spinning steel monsters, this is more than a policy change, it’s a reprieve. One they won’t soon forget.
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