Trump has a long history of attacking wind turbines, arguing that they kill birds and cost more than they generate in revenue.

The winner of the saga is ostensibly Equinor, the company building the Empire Wind project, but even it suffered as work was delayed for a month.

The Trump administration has lifted a month-old stop-work order on Empire Wind, a $5 billion wind farm project off the coast of New York, in a compromise with the state that could also see cancelled plans for a gas pipeline revived,