They know their “reason” wouldn’t fly under scrutiny.

The politicians want to know everything about the citizens but then they try to hide their own actions that involves taxpayer money.

Wind and solar are left wing politics. -MAGA

Don Quijote looking for power companies bribery money...

latest excuse as silly as Cervantes' character

Trump is guaranteeing the US will be at the bottom of the energy sector in the near future.

Thank the Christian god the birds are safe! All praise king Trump.

/s

And, by "US government", we are talking about a government captured by Republicanism/conservatism.

So we are back to department of defense ?

Wind is Hamas!

So, kill everyone in charge, or as good as drink bleach?

You're doing one of the two right now. All of us are.

I wrote about this in another thread, there is one legitimate reson to not have offshore powerplants, defense.

I'll edit and put a link to the comment shortly.

EDIT:

https://lemmy.zip/comment/23502150

Can't have a weak point in energy production if we're going to start ww3.

I hate this so much.

Oh, okay.

There is actually a decent reason for this.

Offshore infrastructure is highly exposed to sabotage, a sub with a few divers could easily fit remote explosives to the structure, the foreign power could then destroy them during an energy crisis or similar event.

Hell, they could simply torpedo the infrastructure directly.

This is a real risk, but plenty of people just treat it like a pretext to not build renewables, which I suspect it is in this case.

My point is that, yes there is a strategic risk to building offshore infrastructure, but it is a risk that can be dealt with, as long as the capacity of the offshore windfarm is redundant, then it is perfectly fine to use them.

You can even export the surplus power when you get it.