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Can I get paid a billion dollars to do nothing?
They’d already spent that billion on preparations. If they hadn’t received their money back the shit would have hit the fan.
Only if you reinvest the sum into conventional gas projects, including $900m (£669m) in a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal project in Louisiana.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a statement posted on X that Americans deserve an energy system built on common sense and not one dependent on “costly subsidies”.
I actually want to vomit from how stupid as fuck that whole country is to not have done anything to these people.
Why not use the $1.25bn and reinvest it into a wind park in the North Sea? Feels a little backwards to give in to the bully and revert to fracking gas, and then put in another $18bn own money?!
Yeah man, that’s the point. It’s backward as fuck. It’s absolutely, mind-numbingly idiotic.
Why not use the $1.25bn and reinvest it into a wind park in the North Sea
Because the same brain rot makes the same kind of people go insane there, too, and then vote for corrupt “conservatives” that sabotage renewables for fossil fuels (read: for the juicy bribes the fossil industry pays).
Germany is just working on new legislation to prevent renewables where the grid isn’t build up to handle it while also providing zero reasons for grid providers to build up the grid. Then they complete the package with no guaranteed feed-in compensation anymore.
Which obvious leads to a “sure you can build renewables, but a third party benefitting from fossil fuels has total control over your ability to sell your product”-situation were exactly noone will ever invest in renewables anymore. (PS: storage was also blocked by insane double taxation for years before a different government fixed that, and so instead the CEO of the record-holder in burying applications for connecting storage to the grid in red-tape -literal years for a process that should take a few days- was awarded with a job as Minister of Economy and Energy…)
They are doing exactly the same bullshit, they are just not as obnoxiously loud and boastful with their insanity as the orange moron is.
I took a boat ride between wind parks in the north sea
pretty huge
the guys you have that are stopping this suck at stopping it because the wind farm are there anyway
the guys you have that are stopping this suck at stopping it
The advantadge of a more fragmented continent. Just because Germany’s government has subscribed to the fossil fuel insanity (not surprisingly given their connections to MAGA, Heritage Foundation etc…) doesn’t mean that Denmark or the Netherlands don’t build some in the same coastal regions.
Enter the interconnected grid between countries and now the cheap electricity Germany doesn’t want to build is sold to them at a surplus. Then they cry about their higher costs, lie that it’s caused by renewables and double down on building expensive power generation instead.
See: in the end they pay money so they can pay more money for their electricity. Exactly like the morons in the US do. Conservativism is a cult that brain-washes people into voting against their own interests so the handful of people actually paying our politicians can get even richer.
But they restarted this morning again since the deal didn’t say when to restart lol.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a statement posted on X that Americans deserve an energy system built on common sense and not one dependent on “costly subsidies”.
Thank god we’re not paying costly subsidies
Especially not on fossil fuels!
$1.2 Billion to make a project not happen sounds like a pretty costly subsidy.
They are being paid $1.2B to build gas power projects in the US. Whereas before they were being paid to build wind power in the US. They are not being paid to do nothing.
Are you sure? Because wording isn’t clear, but pay out sounds like a … pay out, not ‘please, build something else’. 🤷
No they aren’t. They are investing in gas power projects, but the US government is not paying them the money to do that. The money is solely for breach of contract regarding the wind power project.
Thank god it’s not a costly subsidy though.
That’s not what the article says.
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.
Yes, which is not what you said before. RWE is getting paid for nothing to then invest its own money in other projects. The difference is ownership. The difference matters.
From what I can tell, RWE would have owned the wind projects before as well.
RWE said it has agreed to relinquish its leases off the California and Louisiana coasts as well as in the New York Bight.
They wouldn’t need to relinquish leases if the US was the owner and RWE was simply a contractor building stuff for them.
Anything to keep money out of the hands of working Americans.
If I was president I would order every new wind turbine be planted out side every trump golf course in the United states. 6 per golf course and tackey hotel
So it’s not just the american “business” people that are corrupt, it’s “business” people everywhere, throughout the land. Time to go back to hunting and gathering methinks. /s
art of the deal…
I want you to shoot yourself in the foot. How much?
Depends if I am an american or not. Hospital costs factor into this if you live in the home of the fee.
As a non american? I don’t know $500K or so? I mean it would suck but not the worst thing to be paid for.
That would probably leave me with a lifelong harm. My body is important. I’d only start considering it at $100 million.
A bit steep, but I get the idea. As I get older the price for harm goes down though.
1.2 billion of free money to not do work. Wow the trump administration sure knows how to waist money.
A Shame
We should post these in guess the country format
dj is serving the oil companies, not the people
This is incredibly stupid. While China and the rest of the world are leading the charge in renewable energy, the U.S. is set to remain in the Stone Age due to pure hubris and short-term profit gains.
Paying 1.2 billion to get rid of that technology is just ideologically short-sighted. It’s simply stupid.
Exactly, European energy generation during an extreme summer has shown that renewables are the most reliable, until systems are in place for storage. The world can’t rely on fossil fuels or even nuclear at the moment due to climate change.
