Overview

• Interior Secretary Doug Burgum officially reversed the December 2024 Bureau of Land Management approval after identifying legal deficiencies in Biden’s late-term clearance.
• The decision follows President Trump’s Day One executive order and a state directive from Idaho Gov. Brad Little to halt the project pending review.
• The wind farm had been slated to deploy 231 turbines across roughly 57,447 acres with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts near the Minidoka National Historic Site.
• Local residents, state lawmakers and Idaho’s attorney general united in opposition over cultural protections, wildlife impacts and aviation safety.
• The cancellation reflects a broader Trump administration policy tightening scrutiny of wind and solar proposals and opens the site to other options, including small modular nuclear reactors.