The Fishermen’s Association supports the Trump administration’s decision to halt large offshore wind projects to be built off the coast of New York, as Washington Free Beacon first reported Wednesday.
The Trump administration has also launched a comprehensive review of current offshore wind permits.
Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgham, has directed the Office of Marine Energy Management (BOEM) to halt all construction. Empire wind According to Burgum’s, an offshore wind project created by foreign energy developer Equinor announcement x and memo review By the beacon. The New England Fishermen’s Association (NEFSA) is a nonprofit representing the interests of New England fishermen and said it supports the development. (Related: Developers cancel huge offshore wind contracts with the latest blow to Biden’s climate agenda)
“Our government should not sell out American fishermen to foreign green energy companies,” CEO Jerry Lehman wrote. press statement Provided by the Daily Caller News Foundation. “NEFSA praises Secretary Bulgham for pushing a suspension on the Imperial Wind Project, which has been rushing to approve objections from commercial fishermen and their families that the regulatory authorities work for.”
NEFSA CEO Jerry Lehman responds to the imperial pause.
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– NE Fishermen’s Stewardship Association. (@fishStewardship) April 16, 2025
“We hope that the new administration will end an era of special treatment for foreign developers who will industrialize American fisheries,” Lehman said.
Equiner is based in Norway. The Empire Wind Project was one of the ultimate offshore efforts of the Biden era, after Trump signed it. Presidential Order Day 1 of his second term, banning or restricting new offshore wind farms. However, the order did not specifically halt projects that already had federal leases and permits, such as the Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 project.
“Project approval was rushed by previous managers without adequate analysis or consultation between the relevant agencies to relate to the potential impact of the project,” Burgum wrote in the note. He writes that the Imperial Wind Project will be held indefinitely withheld, a thorough review to “deal with these serious flaws.”
The administration is also defending it.Unleash“According to another Day of Order Order, “American workers and businesses” prioritizes “an arrangement in which “internal energy production and “American workers and businesses” bring about federal fund payments.”
Empire Wind 1 was like that Green lighting According to the Boem website, 147 wind turbines were expected to be built within the leasing area under Biden’s Watch in November 2023, under Biden’s Watch.
.@interiordiscussing with @howardlutnickinstructs @boem It will soon halt all construction activities of the Imperial Wind Project until further review of information suggesting that the Biden administration has run through approval without adequate analysis.
– Secretary Doug Burgum (@secretaryburgum) April 16, 2025
“It’s impossible to blow offshore winds and do commercial fishing in the same area,” Dustin Delano, fourth-generation main lobsterman and NEFSA chief operating officer, told DCNF in an interview before the new development was broken. Delano described the tragedy of fishing around offshore wind farms, saying their community was “very scary” about the potential “offshore wind development.” (Related: Exclusive: Fishermen encourage the reform of the “Leviathan bureaucracy” doge style that has throttled industry growth)
This comes after Trump signs it Presidential Order April 9th, we review “Revitalizing the US Maritime Industry” and “How to improve competition within the private sector.” The president has vowed to prioritize the recovery, saying that the industry was “weakened by decades of government neglect.”
Doi, Boem, and Equinor did not immediately respond to DCNF requests for comment or copies of notes reviewed by Washington Free Beacon.
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