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Attorney General William Tong on Monday sought a preliminary injunction to block the Trump Administration’s latest effort to suspend work on the Revolution Wind offshore wind project due to national security concerns.
The Trump Administration first issued a stop work order on August 22, prompting Tong to file a lawsuit, along with Rhode Island; Ørsted sued separately. The federal district court in the Ørsted challenge issued an injunction, allowing work on Revolution Wind to proceed. Then, on December 22, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management once again suspended work on the Revolution Wind offshore wind project for at least 90 days, citing undisclosed national security concerns. Ørsted has sought a preliminary injunction to block this latest stop work order. Monday, Connecticut and Rhode Island filed their own request, outlining the "immediate harm" facing their states and residents.
“Donald Trump is escalating his lawless and erratic attack on Connecticut ratepayers and workers. Every day this project is stalled costs us hundreds of thousands of dollars in inflated energy bills when families are in dire need of relief. Revolution Wind was vetted and approved, and the Trump Administration has yet to disclose a shred of evidence to counter that thorough and careful process. We stopped their first attempt, and we’re fighting on every front to get workers back on the job and Revolution Wind back on track to deliver clean, affordable energy to Connecticut families,” said Attorney General Tong.
As for the national security risks inherent to large-scale offshore wind projects, unclassified reports from the U.S. Government have long found that the movement of massive turbine blades and the highly reflective towers create radar interference called “clutter.” The clutter caused by offshore wind projects obscures legitimate moving targets and generates false targets in the vicinity of the wind projects.
The Department of Energy in a 2024 report stated that a radar’s threshold for false alarm detection can be increased to reduce some clutter, but an increased detection threshold could cause the radar to “miss actual targets.”
Located fifteen nautical miles off the coast of Rhode Island, Revolution Wind is a wind energy facility "expected to deliver enough electricity to the New England grid to power 350,000 homes, or 2.5 percent of the region’s electricity supply." The project had been on track to begin delivering power to the New England grid this month.
The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has estimated that a 90-day delay in the construction and operation of Revolution Wind would cost ratepayers in Connecticut and the broader New England region approximately $350,000 per day, for a total of $31 million in higher electricity costs. It's unclear exactly what went into that calculation.
In addition to the motion for preliminary injunction, Tong and Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha also sought Monday to consolidate the states’ existing lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia with a parallel suit filed by developer Ørsted challenging the initial August 22 stop work order. The judge in that case had issued an injunction allowing work on Revolution Wind to proceed. Monday’s filing seeks to consolidate those two lawsuits as they involve common questions of law and fact.
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Tong, Blumy and Murphy are delusional with TDS. They continually waste taxpayers money and chase every Trump move and attack him with useless lawsuits. Their time could be much better spent on lowering our electric rates, lowering taxes or making CT a business friendly state.
For those of us who have been paying attention to the rulings coming out of lower jurisdiction courts and federal courts in terms of the weight interpretation law and it's application, it is clear that playing it fast and loose is the way to go; in other words, conflations serve the purpose for obfuscation of the true crimes given bais is the tell of "activist judges" and where the respect for the law devolved to performance theater of prosecution abuse -the hustle all the way around obviously.