{"id":2612366,"date":"2026-06-09T09:25:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-is-right-to-ditch-eyesore-wind-farms-that-kill-wildlife-and-dont-work\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:31:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:31:50","slug":"trump-is-right-to-ditch-eyesore-wind-farms-that-kill-wildlife-and-dont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-is-right-to-ditch-eyesore-wind-farms-that-kill-wildlife-and-dont-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Right To Ditch Wind Farms That Kill Wildlife, Don&#8217;t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-is-right-to-ditch-eyesore-wind-farms-that-kill-wildlife-and-dont-work%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2612366&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Seven Democratic (blue-state) attorneys general have filed a lawsuit challenging teh Trump administration\u2019s move to unwind a large offshore wind deal originally approved under Biden with TotalEnergies. The piece claims Trump refunded the company nearly $1 billion after ordering TotalEnergies to instead invest the money in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nancy-pelosi-aoc-demonize-fossil-fuels-in-glasgow-as-kamala-harris-lands-in-paris-met-by-20-car-motorcade\/\" title=\"Nancy Pelosi, AOC Demonize Fossil Fuels in Glasgow as Kamala Harris ...s in Paris, Met by 20-Car Motorcade\">fossil-fuel power<\/a> and presents this as an effort to protect taxpayer value rather than a scheme to enrich anyone or block clean energy.<\/p>\n<p>The author argues that most media coverage paints wind power as too important to abandon and depicts Trump as anti-habitat, but they counter that offshore wind projects are ineffective and wasteful. They contend wind turbines have major downsides: higher upfront carbon impacts from manufacturing and installation, difficulty in recycling turbine parts, large amounts of problematic materials, and environmental harms including bird and marine wildlife deaths.<\/p>\n<p>They also assert that wind farms are frequently unreliable in practice, require extensive land\/sea space, create noise problems for nearby communities, and can generate ongoing pollution or debris when turbines fail. In comparison, the article claims fossil-fuel plants are said to provide more reliable electricity with less land use and fewer construction-material issues, even if they produce more operational carbon.<\/p>\n<p>the article concludes that opposing additional wind advancement is framed as \u201ccommon sense\u201d and that the anti-wind lawsuit effort is portrayed as politically motivated-aimed at slowing innovation and helping leftist leaders control economic and cultural outcomes-while Trump is portrayed as prioritizing cheaper, abundant energy to support growth.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Seven attorneys general from blue states have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/trump-offshore-wind-energy\/2026\/06\/02\/id\/1258289\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">just filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration<\/a> for ending a massive deal with the French company TotalEnergies that would have covered the northeastern coastline with wind farms. Originally signed off by the Biden administration, Trump decided in March to refund TotalEnergies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/trump-offshore-wind-energy\/2026\/06\/02\/id\/1258289\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">close to a billion dollars<\/a> and asked them to invest that money in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/europe-sparks-energy-fury-announcing-plans-to-label-nuclear-power-and-natural-gas-as-green-investments\/\" title=\"Europe Sparks ... Fury, Announcing Plans To Label Nuclear Power And Natural Gas As \u2018Green\u2019 Investments\">fossil fuel plants<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, most journalists reporting this story have depicted Trump as being a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/science-energy\/trump-billion-dollar-wind-farms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">corrupt, anti-environmentalist dullard<\/a> with a \u201cQuixotic hatred of wind power\u201d and the leftist politicians like Kathy Hochul as pragmatic leftists <a href=\"https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/press-release\/2026\/attorney-general-james-and-governor-hochul-announce-lawsuit-challenging-unlawful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who hope<\/a> to \u201cmeet our energy needs, create good jobs, and help secure American energy independence while reducing emissions.\u201d They even go further by reframing the refund as an outrageous plot to pay \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/23\/climate\/trump-totalenergies-offshore-wind-cancellation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a French company $1 billion dollars to not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/philly-bet-big-on-bidens-favorite-electric-bus-company-now-it-stands-to-lose-millions\/\" title=\"Philly&#039;s Big Bet on ...&#039;s Fave Electric Bus Firm Could Cost Millions.\">build offshore wind farms<\/a><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, the Trump administration is managing taxpayer funds in the interest of maximizing value for Americans. This is not a matter of him safeguarding his golf courses from the sight of hideous wind turbines blighting the landscape, but of ending what has become a massive boondoggle benefiting no one except the con men pushing it. By now, everyone should realize that wind power is inefficient, wasteful, ugly, and counterproductive.<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago, one could make a plausible case for wind power, but even ardent environmentalists have finally given up the effort. In his book <em>Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future<\/em>, British writer Oliver Franklin-Wallis does what he can to <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclesmagazine.org\/web\/how-leftist-sophistry-hurts-the-environment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">condemn Western overconsumption<\/a> (although it is estimated that industry accounts for 97 percent of all waste, much of it generated in the Third World), but he is forced to criticize wind turbines since they produce a larger carbon footprint in their construction and installation than they produce in renewable energy. Policy writer Edward Ring breaks down the numbers <a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2023\/03\/09\/renewables-arent-renewable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Franklin-Wallis, along with others like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/michael_shellenberger_why_renewables_can_t_save_the_planet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Shellenberger<\/a>, acknowledges that wind turbines are nearly impossible to recycle, which is especially bad since they require so many tons of valuable raw materials for construction. Because these materials are synthesized with a <a href=\"https:\/\/maweb.org\/why-can-t-wind-turbine-blades-be-recycled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">multitude of resins and polymers<\/a> that can\u2019t be taken apart and reused, most defunct turbines are simply left to deteriorate. This can sometimes even lead to large pieces of fiberglass shards from broken-down wind turbines to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/energy\/commentary\/wind-turbines-not-green-not-reliable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">float ashore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Setting aside these objections and assuming that engineers discover a way to make more recyclable, cost-efficient wind turbines, there is the more obvious problem that wind farms take up vast amounts of space and rarely work as intended. In my home state of Texas, where there is abundant open space with plenty of wind in the West, the wind farms are an oppressive eyesore, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windtaskforce.org\/profiles\/blogs\/frequent-wind-turbine-failures-now-common\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">good portion of them never turn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is to say nothing of the <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC5551191\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noise<\/a> these wind farms make, making the residents at nearby small towns miserable and sleep-deprived. Once an adjacent field or shore is installed, there is nothing they can do. Perhaps for limousine leftists who live in the city far away from the sight and sound of wind farms, this is a feature and not a bug: They can effectively punish MAGA voters in rural America and make a fortune and virtue-signal in the process.<\/p>\n<p>And what about the wildlife affected by wind farms? Far from being a mere meme \u2014 although Trump\u2019s desire to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QDVQAG-Huo4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">whale psychiatrist<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >objectively hilarious \u2014 wind farms kill countless birds<\/a> and marine life. Considering the recent conservationist hysteria in Germany over <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/05\/01\/as-germany-burns-its-elites-are-saving-timmy-the-self-beaching-whale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Timmy the Whale<\/a>, the late humpback whale that kept beaching itself, what would one make of hundreds of \u201cTimmies\u201d beaching themselves because of offshore turbines or thousands of American bald eagles (raptors are especially vulnerable) being torn to pieces by onshore turbines?<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buttigieg-says-americans-should-buy-electric-cars-so-they-never-have-to-worry-about-gas-prices-again\/\" title=\"Buttigieg Says Americans Should Buy Electric Cars So They \u2018Never Have To Worry About Gas Prices Again\u2019\">fossil fuel power plants<\/a> have none of these problems. They take up far less space, use up far fewer raw materials for construction, and most importantly, they produce much more electricity. Sure, their operation produces more carbon emissions than that of a functioning wind turbine, and they depend on nonrenewable (yet abundant) oil and gas, but these drawbacks are nothing compared to the problems of wind farms. And as more energy-hungry AI data centers are built, the need for efficient, reliable energy has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/craigsmith\/2026\/05\/14\/why-the-data-center-boom-may-be-digging-in-the-wrong-dirt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">already increased exponentially<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, to call for the construction of ever more wind farms at this moment is beyond anachronistic and absurd.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, perhaps this is the real point of the leftist AGs opposing what should be obvious common sense. Beyond trying to thwart Trump and demoralize his supporters with ugly, useless wind farms, they want to roll back the clock and stifle innovation and economic growth. By deliberately making energy scarce and slowing technological advancement, leftists can continue their dominance over the economy, the government, and the culture at large. While most Americans would rather avoid the stagnation, mediocrity, and collective backwardness of Western Europe and Canada, many leftist elites desperately seek to emulate them.<\/p>\n<p>To his great credit, President Trump and his administration are having none of it. He understands the key to a strong economy is cheap, abundant energy \u2014 and that wind farms are not cheap, nor do they create much energy. Moreover, they are not even that clean and end up doing significantly more harm to the environment than otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>These reasons might not matter to those whose very raison d\u2019\u00eatre is opposing Trump and everything he stands for, but for those leftists who pretend to care about the environment and human progress, they should pay closer attention. In supporting these renewable energy scams, particularly wind farms, they become the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bad guys<\/a> on this issue, not Trump. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Auguste Meyrat is an English teacher and freelance writer in the Dallas area. He is the founding editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/everymancommentary.substack.com\/\">The Everyman<\/a>, a senior contributor to The Federalist, and has written for essays for The American Mind, The Stream, Religion and Liberty, The Blaze, and elsewhere. He is also the host of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/everyman-commentary\/id1826292273\">The Everyman Commentary Podcast<\/a>.&#8221; Follow him on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EverymanComm\">X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven blue-state AGs sue Trump over ending TotalEnergies offshore wind deal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":551,"featured_media":2612367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Copy-of-Untitled-2026-06-05T170353.418.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,33651],"tags":[74380,81061,50738,73129,81060],"class_list":["post-2612366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","category-the-western-journal","tag-environmental-policy-2","tag-legal-rights-2","tag-misinformation-2","tag-renewable-energy-2","tag-wildlife-protection-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Copy-of-Untitled-2026-06-05T170353.418.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2612366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612374,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612366\/revisions\/2612374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2612367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2612366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2612366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2612366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}