Samuel L. Jackson touts wind farms after White House weighs move against them
Samuel L. Jackson is defending wind farms in a video released a day after the Trump administration said it was considering additional hurdles for wind energy development.
"Motherf---ing wind farms: Loud, ugly, harmful to nature. Who says that?" Jackson said as he shook his head in a video released Wednesday by the European energy company Vattenfall.
"These giants are standing tall against fossil fuels, rising up out of the ocean like a middle finger to CO2," the "Pulp Fiction" star said of windmills.
"Deep beneath the waves they can become artificial reefs, creating habitats for sea life to grow," the 76-year-old actor said.
A day earlier the Trump administration said it would undertake a review to consider “whether to stop onshore wind development on some federal lands and halting future offshore wind lease sales.”
“These policy changes represent a commonsense approach to energy that puts Americans’ interests first,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a statement.
President Trump has repeatedly denounced wind energy over the years.
“We’re not going to let windmills get built because we’re not going to destroy our country any further than it’s already been destroyed,” Trump said last month.
“You go and look at these beautiful plains and valleys, and they’re loaded up with this garbage that gets worse and worse looking with time,” the president said.
Jackson has spoken out against Trump before, saying in a 2019 interview that the commander in chief was "ruining the planet."
“If you’re not saying anything, then you’re complicit," the performer said at the time.