German energy company RWE has said it will abandon its offshore wind projects in the US after reaching a $1.2bn (£892m) payout deal with Donald Trump's Department of the Interior (DOI).

RWE said that it will now reinvest the sum into conventional gas projects, including $900m (£669m) in a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal project in Louisiana.

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[–] 92 points 3 months ago (17 children)

Is he actually sabotaging us on purpose at this point?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Also, petro is masculine, solar and wind: gay and feminine.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    What is more masculine than harvesting the biggest available energy source in the solar system? Or extracting energy out of the movement of air like a Wizard? Using long dead microorganisms feels pretty mundane in comparison.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Nope: drilling into the ground and pumping it out so you can "roll coal" on bikers and hybrids/EVs - heroic and manly, obvs.

    Harvesting wind and solar: means UR GAY.

    I'm of course kidding, but for a whole lot of men (and toxic women) they are dead serious about this kind of thing.

    I remember one of my roommates pointedly throwing an aluminum can into the trashcan with about ten people in the kitchen with him - when the recycling bin was right there - it was butted up next to the trash can. It was not about effort.

    When either myself or someone else asked him - uh, WTF, man? His response, not even kidding: "Recycling?!!! I'm not a F__!" I mean, this was the mid-90s and recycling was slowly creeping into daily life, but even then, there was kind of this general expectation that everyone is part of society and we have exactly one planet, and this kind of casual homophobia was not exactly embraced in most circles even back then.

    But this guy was so worried he might be perceived as womanly or gay over giving a shit about the environment...

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    This is such a sad story. So many men do not realize what patriachism is doing to them, making them behave like idiots and morons. It's also the source of why these men are so scared of being perceived as anything else than super-masc.

    Patriarchism hurts everyone, not just women or the LGBT community. The expected behaviours are also violent against everyone who cares about their environment at large.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    Also, it seems like a certain kind of man spends so much time on obsessing over this kind of thing. I just don't get how someone can possibly have the time or energy for such nonsense, though I've definitely had these types in my life in high school and in college.

    But seeing someone like Jesse Watters clutching his pearls with his "rules for men" is so wild that I sometimes wonder if he's not really something like a Sacha Baron Cohen character doing a very long con.

    I mean, telling men they cannot cross their legs, or drink soup or use straws in public? Is he serious with that shit? If Jesse Watters was someone in my life, I'd go out of my way to do all three in front of him. Maybe I'd drink soup through a straw, while crossing my legs, LOL.

    Same goes for what I hear about some of the younger "influencers" telling a bunch of young men/teenagers how to be men...it borders on the comical, but I think it's also quite dangerous to our culture.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    I have to agree, and want to add to you last paragraph.

    The "influencers" are only able to spread their bullshit because we left young men behind somewhere 20 years ago in feminism. I agree that feminism should be primarily about women, but most of feminism did never think about what role young men should strive towards when patriarchism is dismantled. We now have a situation where feminism was able to improve the situation of women somewhat, but it also created a lot of uncertainty in young men who feel that they now have no place in a society that often is prejudicial against them because it is expected that they behave just as bad as the previous generations. This opens up an opportunity for the worst of humanity, coming from the right wing - they are filling their minds with misogynist and anti-LGBT ideas to give them an identity that they are missing because the previous push against patriarchism offered no alternative to them.

    The next wave of feminism should take that as a lesson: you can't just dismantle a system without offering the participants of that system a worthwhile position in the new system, or they will refuse your system - often violently.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Wow, this is so very well said. It's hard to thread this needle, because even when you state it as well as you do, you'll sometimes have people getting their back up about how you are "centering" males and so on. It's not about centering any one group (to me), it's about trying to push things forward without leaving anyone behind.

    Oh, and for a minute there, I thought you were responding to this: https://lemmy.world/post/50415802/25191138

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    The US have more gas/oil resources than most other countries and especially China. It's more financially efficient to use fossil fuels and the US economy is built around them. If there is a plan it seems to be putting the squeeze on global oil trade (Iran, Venezuela, Greenland), and then holding all the cards so that their economy prevails. The worst thing that could happen to them is the rest of the world being able to thrive without fossil fuels.

    I think they lose anyway though. It's inevitable.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    But renewables are already cheaper than fossil fuels and the rest of the world IS going to move on, we can't stop them, he is limiting our ability to produce energy at the same time the economy is being propped up by new data centers

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    He's (when I say he, obviously he's not really in charge) creating an environment such that the world (especially Europe) can't move on, by squeezing their need for fossil fuels in the short term and delaying their ability to invest in their own infrastructure. Furthermore, the USA is one of the best-placed countries (especially Vs china and europe) in a warming climate due to the size of their natural resources of water. Russia is a silent winner in all of this due to their own natural resources.

    If you look at the actions of the USA since trump took office, and ignore the figureheads on the television, the USA is doing the best it can to accelerate global warming and protect it's own economy at all costs.

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    [–] 22 points 3 months ago

    The ART OF THE DEAL, ladies and gentlemen.

    Facepalm

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  • [–] 40 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Infuriating: https://xcancel.com/SecretaryBurgum/status/2085409733989589124

    Americans deserve an energy system built on common sense, not one dependent on costly subsidies

    Costly subsides like giving them $1.2bn to cancel a project that will generate free energy?

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  • [–] -4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Wind power is great bit it's not exactly free energy.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I want you to shoot yourself in the foot. How much?

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The question is what gas companies does he own?

    He's using government money to shut down the competition

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    Using our taxpayer dollars to screw us over harder each day...

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Trump to be refunded this personally by the Oil companies

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    RWE should take the money and go back home and not reinvest it.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    I hope RWE will spend the money on renewable systems in Europe then.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    This is same deal that was announced 3-6 months ago? Company is getting free money to break lease, in exchange for investing 75% of it with likelihood of making good ROI from that money. US would have more energy if project stayed. I'm sure some climate terrorist interests will find money for LNG under the couch cushions.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago*

    Donald Quichot strikes again!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I would enjoy pointing and laughing at Americans, but sadly this provides a new minimum standard for climate change.

    Instead I'll just have to point and laugh at Americans with reduced mirth.

    You've fucked us all but I suspect you might be about to lose more than the rest of us.

    I understand that most of you have done nothing to deserve this but all us bear the same our nation's shame.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I really think je wants to have global warming kill humanity before hè dies himself. It’s the only explanation

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    [–] 29 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    He really hates wind for a guy who makes so much of it.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago

    To be clear, the wind projects are in the USA. If only stupid decisions of one government didn't impact the whole planet.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago

    The stupidity is so great it burns the entire planet.

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    [–] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    What a way to earn a billion bucks. "Don't do anything! I'll give you a billion bucks and change!" "Okie-doke!"

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Well they had to be able to credibly threaten that they could build a windfarm, so that's probably worth a few hundred grand to a some amount of millions depending on where they got to in the process.

    I wonder if they'd like to sell the land rights they'd have lined up to someone else who might like to not do a wind farm.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

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    Its for US coast projects, not european ones. So this is just Trump shooting the future of the US in the foot again...

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    take money then build them anyway. 6'' to the left

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    [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Europe should "start" more US wind projects. Then get paid more not to do it and build them in the north sea instead.

    Went through some ports recently, it feels nice seeing all the wind turbine blades laying on the docks waiting to go.

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