Wind is one of the cheapest sources of electricity available. Even if you are a completely brain-dead climate change denier it makes sense from a financial perspective.
In this specific case the CEO stated that gas is the cheaper choice given their ~$1B they can spend.
The longer quote seems to be "In the situation of the U.S., where you have huge amount of resources, huge amount of land to produce electricity, offshore wind is not the most affordable way to produce electricity" which sounds like it's just as much about the extra cost of off-shore makes less sense when you're not land-constrained like in Europe or Asia.