The large Norwegian group specialist in Equinor Equipment announced on Thursday, April 17, that the United States had ordered the construction of its wind farm project off the Côtes de l’Etad de la nite de New York, due to insufficient environmental analysis on the part of the Biden administration.
“Last night, we received a notification from the Oceanic Energy Management Office (BOEM) concerning our“ Empire Wind 1 ”project, under construction since 2024”said Equinor to the France-Presse (AFP) agency in an email. “We will dialogue directly with the Boem and the Ministry of the Interior to understand the questions raised about the permits we have received from the authorities”he added. Equinor said he wouldn’t “No comments on the potential consequences until we know more”.
US Interior Minister Doug Burgum wrote on Wednesday April 16, on social network X that his ministry “Asked the BOEM to immediately interrupt all the construction activities of the wind project” Empire Wind “until a more in -depth examination of the information suggesting that the Biden administration had precipitated its approval without a sufficient analysis being carried out”.
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Shortly after his return to the White House for a second term, in January, the American president, Donald Trump, signed a series of decrees putting a halt to the wind. Among the measures announced, he imposed a freezing of operating permits and federal loans for any wind or land wind project. “We are not going to take the wind of wind”said Trump in January, assuring that they are “Laids”, “Mount the landscape” et “Kill the whales”.
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The offshore project “Empire Wind”, which must be built in two phases and which is located less than 50 kilometers southeast of Long Island, was the first offshore wind project which would have provided electricity directly to the city of New York. With its fifty-four turbines, “Empire Wind 1” is designed to provide 810 MW of energy to Brooklyn, which would supply 500,000 New York households.
The project was to begin to produce electricity in 2027 and is part of the New York State strategy in terms of renewable energies to meet growing energy demand against the backdrop of efforts to reduce the use of fossil fuels, according to Equinor.
