Trump admin nixes huge Biden-era windmill project, saving thousands of acres
The Trump administration has axed a windmill farm project greenlit by the Biden admin during its twilight hours, saving over 57,000 acres in Idaho
by Summer Lane | August 8, 2025
Amid President Trump’s well-known distaste for windmill-driven energy production, his administration has canceled a massive wind farm project greenlit by the Biden regime during the midnight hour of his presidency.
The Lava Ridge Wind Project would have been an enormous project, clocking in at over 57,000 acres in southern Idaho and 231 wind turbines, according to the Department of the Interior.
“Under President Donald J. Trump, the Department of the Interior will no longer provide preferential treatment towards unreliable, intermittent power sources that harm rural communities, livelihoods, and the land, such as the Lava Ridge Wind Project and the radical Green New Scam agenda that burdens our nation and public lands,” the department stated.
Trump has long been a critic of wind farms, lambasting them for being subsidized, unreliable, and ultimately inefficient methods of energy production.
“It’s a horrible thing,” he said recently. “It’s the most expensive form of energy. It’s no good. They’re made in China, almost all of them…the whole thing is a con job.”
Trump also noted that an energy source should not need subsidies to be efficient. “With energy, you make money, you don’t lose money. But more important than that, it ruins the landscapes, it kills the birds – they’re noisy,” he added.
“By reversing the Biden administration’s thoughtless approval of the Lava Ridge Wind Project, we are protecting tens of thousands of acres from harmful wind policy while shielding the interests of rural Idaho communities,” said Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum. “This decisive action defends the American taxpayer, safeguards our land, and averts what would have been one of the largest, most irresponsible wind projects in the nation.”
The cancellation of this wind farm project is a direct action stemming from Trump’s memorandum earlier this year ordering a withdrawal from federal government leasing and permitting practices on wind energy developments.
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