How Trump’s $1B payment to a French company to scrap offshore wind will hurt Maine (and everyone else) As energy costs climb, Pres. Donald Trump’s administration will pay nearly $1 billion in taxpayer funds to a French energy company to stop developing planned offshore wind projects off the coasts of New York and North Carolina, in a move lawmakers and experts say will increase reliance on fossil fuels and could drive up energy… The post How Trump’s $1B payment to a French company to scrap offshore wind will hurt Maine (and everyone else) first appeared on Maine Beacon .