President Donald Trump's longstanding dislike of wind power is now costing Americans jobs.
The Public's Radio reports that Italian company Prysmian has abandoned plans to build a factory in Somerset, Massachusetts that would have built undersea cables to connect to offshore wind farms due to what the report describes as Trump's "hostility" to wind-power projects.
The factory was projected to have created between 200 to 350 manufacturing jobs in the area, which is near the border with neighboring state Rhode Island.
“Donald Trump has unraveled that promise of good jobs by threatening a moratorium on offshore wind, generating so much uncertainty that companies pull back investment,” U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) said in a statement.
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To be sure, Trump wasn't the sole cause for the project's demise, as some local residents had spent years fighting against it.
But local economic development consultant Ken Fiola tells The Public's Radio that Trump's election last year may have been the tipping point.
“Ultimately, there were enough paper cuts to delay the project,” he said. “And then when Trump came in with a new emphasis on energy, I think that was the final nail in the coffin.”
Trump has vowed to unleash the potential of American oil production despite the fact that oil production already hit record highs throughout former President Joe Biden's administration.
