If this is accurate the US is making itself look unreliable for major energy investment

Total doesn’t greenwash anymore.

Perhaps they try to please the US government. A previous total CEO "maintained complicated relations with the United States". He died in a plane crash accident. Was it an accident or a murder, perhaps the current Total CEO prefers to be safe than dead.

https://www.france24.com/fr/20160714-margerie-deces-enquete-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unijet_Flight_074P

Simply insane.

How about Equinor? They are suing the US govt for stopping the wind projects.

The president - in his personal capacity - hates windmills. That is probably the entire reason this happened, in addition to hurting blue states.

At least it doesn't seem like a direct payoff. So in that sense the title is clickbait.

> redirect those funds towards fossil fuel production [...] > US interior secretary [says] the deal was worth "nearly $1 billion

The rest of the comments here... yep.

> "TotalEnergies CEO Pouyanné said offshore wind was 'not the most affordable way to produce electricity' in the US, which he identified as being natural gas-fired power plants. [...] So it was a win-win dialog," he said."

Pouyanné is only 62 years old. If, as I hope, there are criminal trials in the future for those responsible for recklessly endangering life on this planet, then I hope that he is still alive and that statements like this form part of the prosecution. Unfortunately Trump will almost certainly be long dead by then.

Idiocracy

Trump wrecks the global energy economy and his next move is to increase our dependence on it? They don't make enough dimensions for the type of chess this brainiac is playing.

Sorry, I do not know how else to say this:

Well hopefully when Trump is gone NY remembers this and tells Pouyanné to screw when they put out bids to restart the project.