"The pause is effective immediately and will give the Interior Department, which oversees offshore wind, time to work with the Defense Department and other agencies to assess the possible ways to mitigate any security risks posed by the projects, the administration said."
""The prime duty of the United States government is to protect the American people," Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a statement. "Today's action addresses emerging national security risks, including the rapid evolution of the relevant adversary technologies, and the vulnerabilities created by large-scale offshore wind projects with proximity near our east coast population centers.""
"The Interior Department said 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 wind projects, the Interior Department said."
Leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects along the U.S. East Coast are paused effective immediately due to unspecified national security risks identified by the Pentagon. The pause covers Vineyard Wind, Revolution Wind, Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind. The Interior Department will coordinate with the Defense Department and other agencies to assess and mitigate security risks. Unclassified U.S. reports have found that moving turbine blades and highly reflective towers create radar "clutter" that can obscure legitimate moving targets and generate false targets. The pause follows a federal judge's ruling that an earlier executive order blocking wind projects was arbitrary and capricious.
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