New York Wind Project Revived With Natgas Quid Pro Quo

New York Wind Project Revived With Natgas Quid Pro Quo

A wind project in New York mothballed by the Trump administration is getting a new lease on life through a compromise that would also see an abandoned natural gas pipeline from Pennsylvania to New York revived. Norway’s Equinor was three months into Empire Wind, a $5 billion offshore wind farm, when Trump came to power and set about dismantling the Biden administration’s wind power program. On his first day in office, the second-term president i…

Amidst Offshore Wind Moratorium, Empire Wind Back on Track

On May 19, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Interior reversed its April 16 stop work order and allowed the $5 billion, 2 GW, Empire Wind project 12 miles south of Long Island to proceed. The move follows an intensive lobbying effort by the project’s developer, Equinor ASA, who coordinated with federal, state, and city officials to get Empire Wind back on track. Unlike other projects affected by the Trump administration’s ban on offshore wind dev…

U.S. Lifts Ban So New York’s Empire Wind Farm Can Continue Construction - Conservative Angle

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The US government could have used the wind farm as a means of pressure to politically enforce the construction of new natural gas pipelines. (Politics, Donald Trump)

New York, May 20 (EFE).- A large offshore wind power project in New York that President Donald Trump had ordered to stop, despite being previously approved, will resume after an apparent commitment by state authorities for the development of natural gas. This is the Empire Wind 1 project awarded to the Norwegian company Equinor and approved last year under the mandate of Joe Biden, but which was put on hold in mid-April following a Trump executi…

United States – 21/05/2025 – energysdelamer.eu. The US government having lifted the order to stop the construction, Equinor resumes the installation of the offshore wind farm. Neptune Marine, sends its hotel barge and a assistance ship, a tug on the Wind Empire in reinforcement. Empire Offshore Wind LLC (Empire), the subsidiary of Equinor ASA, was informed on 19 May by the Ocean Energy Management Office (BOEM) of the Ministry of the Interior tha…