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They kill birds and bats 24 hours a day, too.
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I thought submarines were responsible for whale beaching.
Robert Rand, an environmental scientist, said the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and NOAA haven’t accounted for the avoidance and aversion that takes place when the whales hear the pile driving and other dissonant sounds reverberating from the construction of the turbines.
“They don’t make the connection between a loud noise in the water and species moving away from that noise, and that’s a problem because they don’t have the fat stores to run around forever trying to get away from that noise,” Mr. Rand said in the film.
“If a calf is separated from the mother, what I understand is both of them start stressing a lot, and it doesn’t take long for them to die. It’s a very deadly situation. The calf needs the mother for food, and the mother is trying to find the calf.”
After the mother and calf expend their energy, they are stranded and they die, he said.
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This is one of many reasons not to build these NON-ECONOMICAL WINDMILLS.
Give it some time and in a few years ,they will say that the wind turbines are causing whale deaths. Trump will be proven correct yet again. Trump & Rush were/are almost always right.
“the avoidance and aversion that takes place when the whales hear the pile driving and other dissonant sounds”
Pile-drivers in the open ocean are powered by diesel engines.
As is the equipment that set’s up the pile-drivers to operate.
The windmill carbon foot print is getting bigger.
Sorry, I’m not buying the wind turbine connection to whale deaths. Doesn’t pass the smell test. And the parties claiming the connection have funding ties to benefit from the conclusion.