Doug Burgum

National security now, there's classified reports out that the radar interference above the water and the sonar interference below the water of these massive offshore projects represent real national security risks.

These are not made up things.

These are things that have to be considered, particularly related to offshore.

But with the working families tax cut bill that got passed last July, people are not contemplating new projects.

We have companies that are coming to us from around the world that are saying, hey, we're not

going to be building offshore because we get it.

It was only viable because of the massive tax subsidies.

So Americans had to pay twice.

They had to pay in terms of higher electric costs, and then they also had to pay through these tax subsidies.

So it's all of the above that are reliable, affordable, dispatchable, and don't require massive subsidies.

I mean, and that's the level playing field that we're at right now.

Absolutely we are.

And as I'm sure as we get into court and have sessions and share classified information, there will be further discussions on this.

You know, people are saying that, oh, this is some ideological attack on offshore wind.

No, this is like a real genuine concern.

And as Americans, we should be concerned.

No one's reading a story about pilots getting shot down in the Russian-Ukraine war because everything is autonomous.

It's autonomous on autonomous.

And if you've got massive radar interference just off our huge population centers, if you wanted to attack America, you would launch autonomous drones through those things, or you'd launch autonomous submarines because of the sonar interference.

And so we just have to wake up.