New York, May 20 (EFE) .- A large maritime wind energy project in New York that President Donald Trump had ordered to stop, despite being previously approved, will resume after an apparent commitment of state authorities for the development of natural gas.
This is the project Empire Wind 1awarded to the company Norway Equinor and approved last year under the mandate of Joe Biden, but which was paused in the middle of April after a Trump executive order to review government contracts related to this renewable energy.
On Monday night, Mayor of New York, Eric Adams, announced that Trump’s government had raised the order that paralyzed the construction of the project, which has created 1,500 jobs and intends to be a direct electricity source for about 500,000 homes in the Grand Manzana.
The state governor, Kathy Hochul, said that after “conversations with Equinor and White House officials”, Trump and Interior Secretary, Doug Burgum, agreed to resume the construction of this project “that has already received the necessary federal approvals.”
However, Burgum, which imposed the pause on April 16, wrote in his X account last night, without alluding to Empire Wind 1, which was “encouraged by the comments of Governor Hochul about her willingness to advance in the key capacity of the gas pipelines.”
“Americans living in New York and New England (group of northern New York states) would have important economic benefits and lower electrical costs of greater access to reliable American natural gas, affordable and clean,” Burchem added.
Neither Mayor Adams nor Governor Hochul mentioned in their messages on social networks nor communicated that apparent concession in the development of gas energy revealed by the Burgum Secretary.
Equinor, in a statement, also thanked the campaign of the New York authorities to resume the construction, which is completed to 30 %, and declared that, despite the delay, he hopes to fulfill its deadlines that this starts its commercial operations in 2027.
The Norway also recalled that the US government awarded its subsidiary Empire Offshore Wind the project on the New York state coast in 2017, and that after an environmental review process in 2024 also approved its construction and obtained the necessary financing. EFE
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