MAINE PUBLIC • November 14, 2025
Since taking power earlier this year, President Trump has made good on campaign threats to halt American offshore wind projects. His anti-wind agenda has stifled clean energy growth in Maine and the rest of New England where ocean wind is regarded as crucial for meeting long-term electricity demands, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and boosting economic development. Now some in the industry have turned their attention north, to the Canadian province of Nova Scotia where that country's first ocean wind development is gaining speed. Nova Scotia is eyeing the northeast U.S. as a potential customer.