Energy policy: Trump calls for wind turbines to be dismantled in the North Sea

The future US President Donald Trump is calling for the wind turbines in the North Sea to be dismantled. The 78-year-old distributed a report from last November on his online platform Truth Social about the announced withdrawal of the US oil company Apache from the region and criticized Great Britain for what he considered a “very big mistake” in energy policy.

“Open the North Sea. Get rid of the wind turbines!” wrote Trump, who, among other things, mocked Germany for its energy policy with wind turbines during the US election campaign last fall. “They put wind turbines everywhere, and the wind didn’t blow as hard. And if they had continued this process, Germany would be bankrupt now,” Trump said. Contrary to what the Republican suggested, Germany has recently been building more wind turbines every year.

Great Britain is increasingly relying on renewable energy

In the report shared by Trump, Apache justifies its withdrawal from the North Sea by 2029 by saying that increasing taxes would make oil production uneconomical.

The British government led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, elected in July, is placing much greater emphasis on more environmentally friendly energy. New licenses for oil and gas companies to drill in the North Sea will no longer be granted.

Trump, on the other hand, had already lowered climate and environmental protection standards in his first term in office (2017-2021). At his initiative, the USA withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement in 2020. His successor Joe Biden reversed that.