Doug Burgum bribed two more wind energy companies today to switch to oil and gas.
The Interior Department that Burgum runs started cutting checks after federal courts stopped the Trump administration from killing offshore wind projects already in development. Today’s $885 million in taxpayer refunds came on terms that require every dollar to be spent on an LNG plant or an oil rig before the check clears.
A month ago, the same deal handed $928 million to a different company. A fourth is lining up next, and roughly $6 billion in offshore wind leases is still sitting on the table. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is investigating these reckless, unauthorized bribes. Call your representatives through 5 Calls and Resistbot and demand Congress ban them before they pay off another company.
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Source: NBC Los Angeles
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Source: SF Gate
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Source: The Hill
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Source: Variety
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Source: CNN
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Source: WPIX New York
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