(Bloomberg) -- President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he would seek to have a policy of having no wind farms constructed during his second term, t

Trump Says He Wants No Wind Farms Built During Presidency

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(Bloomberg) -- President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he would seek to have a policy of having no wind farms constructed during his second term, threatening billions of dollars in planned wind projects.

“We are going to have a policy where no windmills are being built,” Trump said during a lengthy tirade against wind power during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Trump, who has vowed a first day executive order targeting wind farms, has long made no secret his disdain for the energy source. But his remarks Tuesday represented the sharpest threat yet from the incoming president.

As president, Trump will have broad authority over the approval of multi-billion dollar projects being planned off the US coast as well as wind farms proposed for large swaths of federal land.

Trump criticized the renewable energy source as being too expensive and harmful to the environment and whales. Trump in particular singled out a 200 wind turbine project planned off the coast of New Jersey, an apparent reference to a project being developed by EDF Renewables Inc. and Shell PLC. Other companies whose wind projects could be under threat include Avangrid Inc., Orsted AS, and Invenergy LLC.