Donald Trump calls for wind turbines to be dismantled in the North Sea

Donald Trump calls for 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 the future US President Trump, who will take office on January 20th. During the US election campaign last fall, he mocked Germany, among other things, for its energy policy with wind turbines. “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.

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 energy from wind power. 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.