Revolution Wind, Rhode Island’s first large-scale offshore wind project, was put on ice by the Trump administration Friday, which ordered developers to immediately stop construction. The project is already 80% completed,

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management stopped all activity related to the 704-megawatt wind farm that has contracts to deliver power to RI and CT.

Emotions were high in Quonset on Monday, as Rhode Island union leaders and the state’s congressional delegation lamented the Trump administration’s pause on the Revolution Wind project. Gov. Dan McKee called the pause an “attack on Rhode Islanders.