Think energy prices are high now? Just wait.

By: Jacob Ahrens-Balwit

Outlets: Wisconsin Examiner

Published: April 6, 2026

Words: 700

Last Updated: 3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Late last month, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced the federal government will pay a French energy company nearly $1 billion — not to build clean energy here in the U.S., but to kill it.

The developer, which was set to invest private dollars in two offshore wind projects that could have powered more than a million American homes, will be paid off by our government to simply walk away. In exchange for this extraordinary …

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