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Minnesota Set to Lose Massive Wind Energy Projects Thanks to Trump 78%
By Hafiz Rashid68%
7/10/2026, 10:02:25 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 29 faulty reasoning types, including Post Hoc (False Cause), Appeal to Emotion, and Biased Writer Voice, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 43.6% saturation with 206 hits. Analysis detected 1,650 faulty-reasoning hits from 472 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 69% and a BS Rank of 78% (4,980 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 77.30% of the article peer group.
President Trump’s attacks on wind power could have a devastating effect on Minnesota.
The state has four wind energy projects that could bring 1,200 construction jobs, 4,400 other jobs connected to the projects, and over $168 million in economic impacts to the state, the Minnesota Reformer reports , citing the progressive think tank North Star Policy Action.
The Trump administration has stopped the Department of Defense from completing legally mandated national security reviews of proposed wind farms, basically halting their construction across the country.
In total, over 250 such projects have been stalled, four of them in the Gopher State, with $1.6 billion in investments behind them.
“Minnesota has spent decades building one of the strongest wind energy economies in the country, and the federal government is now actively dismantling that through a permitting process turned into an indefinite roadblock,” said Aaron Rosenthal, North Star Policy Action’s research director, to the Reformer.
The St.
Paul-based think tank’s report points out that the four wind projects would have a combined output of 1,119 megawatts, more than that of Xcel Energy’s Prairie Island nuclear power plant in the state.
Minnesota has a mandate to have 100 percent carbon-free electricity in the state by 2040, and these wind projects would be a big step forward.
Under President Biden, wind power got a big boost across the U.S., with the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act bringing billions of dollars of federal loans, tax credits, and grants.
But Trump has a long-standing hatred of wind power going back to a bitter fight years ago against wind turbines built near his Turnberry golf resort in Scotland .
On the first day of his second term as president, Trump signed an executive order freezing wind power permits both on- and off-shore.
That lasted until June this year, when the administration abandoned its effort to defend the order in court.
But Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said last year that he would have to personally approve any federal solar and wind permits, stalling national projects.
“We have not approved one windmill since I’ve been in office.
And we’re going to keep it that way.
My goal is to not let any windmill be built,” Trump said in March.
To satisfy the president’s vendetta, the federal government has been buying out developers and companies seeking to build wind projects.
Wind power is abundant in the U.S., especially in the Midwest, and doesn’t produce carbon emissions or pollution.
The costs to set up wind farms are rapidly dropping, and it only takes 6 to 9 miles per hour—a gentle breeze—to get turbines to spin and generate electricity.
But to the anti-green Trump administration, anything that isn’t oil and gas should be shut down, even if it means higher electricity bills .
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