Posted on 09/03/2023 7:08:37 AM PDT by george76
In a less than 24-hour span this weekend, two more dead whales have been discovered off the northern Atlantic coast of the U.S., and pro-cetacean activists are blaming Joe Biden’s offshore wind initiative.
One whale washed up on Rockaway Beach in New York, while the other was filmed floating off of Chatham, Mass.
While the connection between whale fatalities and offshore wind power development hasn’t been rigorously studied, some environmentalists believe that loud sonar mapping, high boat traffic, and other disturbances to whales’ natural habitat are contributing to the surge in deaths.
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New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association (NEFSA) said the string of whale deaths — 69 documented since last December — correlates with unprecedented development of offshore wind power installations in the Atlantic Ocean.
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“When there is an unprecedented amount of deaths in a short period of time, the first thing we do is look for what has changed in the natural habitat/environment,” NEFSA wrote in their post. “Whales and other marine animals began washing ashore in alarmingly high numbers only since, and only where, offshore wind seismic blasting is occurring.”
David Shanker, the New Jersey Spokesman for the Save Right Whales, has been tracking whale deaths since late 2022.
Like the fishermen, he also believes offshore wind is to blame for the high number of whale fatalities.
“Since sonar blasting for offshore wind turbine developments began in December 2022, 68 dead whales have washed ashore. That’s in just 38 weeks, meaning nearly two whales have been confirmed dead every week,” Shanker said.
“At what point are we going to realize it’s not an ‘Unusual Mortality Event’ it’s much worse—it’s an inconvenient and unplanned specicide happening as a byproduct of rapid and irresponsible offshore wind turbine development,” he said. “If the government doesn’t put the brakes on these projects, how long will the 350 remaining critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whales (NARW) be able to hold out? Will our children and grandchildren be learning about our current government’s mistakes in in their textbooks in five years or 10?”
Biden has made industrial scale offshore wind a major priority of his administration’s energy policy.
Last week, Biden’s Department of Interior touted the accelerated approval of a fourth major wind project located off of Point Judith, Rhode Island.
Biden has set an ambitious goal of achieving 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030 – and I am more confident than ever that we will meet it. Together with industry, labor and partners from coast to coast, we are building an entirely new industry off the east and west and Gulf coasts,” said Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.
“The Interior Department is committed to the Biden-Harris administration’s all-of-government approach to the clean energy future and delivering clean, reliable renewable energy to help respond to the climate crisis, lower energy costs, and create good-paying union jobs across the manufacturing, shipbuilding and construction sectors,” Haaland said.
Currently, there are only two utility-scale offshore wind installations operating — one off of Virginia and another off of Rhode Island. However, several more are meandering through the permit approval process.
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In Maine, Gov. Janet Mills signed legislation this year that supporters believe will kickstart offshore wind development in the Gulf of Maine.
NEFSA, which represents several lobstering and commercial fishing interests, wants that project paused so an environmental review can be conducted to determine whether the wind turbines will disrupt fishing operations in the Gulf.
Last month, they released a scientific review of studies which, they said, were sufficient to cause concern that building and operating wind turbines could have “population-scale” effects on commercially important species, including lobster and haddock.
Just finished the book Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America: Eric Jay Dolin.
the first Pilgrims learned from the Wampanoag Indians to harvest and render blubber and balleen from dead whales, washed-up on beaches of Nantucket and Eastern Massachusetts.
They should revive a long-lost skill.
In 25 years, these same whale environmentalists are going to be arguing with their stupid climate-change karen environmentalist cousins - about who is going to pay to remove from their shoreline the ugly, disused, rusting hulks of dis-used, expensive, inefficient giant windmills that were built by government corruption and debt under the guise of “climate change.”
They’ll both agree - taxpayers need to do it.
At press time Moby Dick had not responded to requests for comment.
These things are huge monuments to liberal stupidity.
Wouldn’t that be a spotted owl hoot if windmills were the cause of the extinction of the right whales lol
LOL.
What’s really funny is the car with a Peace Symbol on the bumper right next to a FREE TIBET bumper sticker, when the only way to “Free Tibet” would be to declare WAR on Red China to force them to do it...and that would be only if we WON.
The issue is always The Revolution
And don’t you forget it!
The words “Blast” and “Whale” in the same sentence reminds me of the 1970 “Exploding Whale” Incident:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34
“I guess whales’ lives don’t matter anymore to the left”
Don’t tell that to these folks that wear strange hats. Search Lummi and look at all the different types of woven reed head ware this creative tribe comes up with. Also, check out the picture of the gal behind the Chief…a perfect “Karen.”
Think only White progressive liberals have terminal cognitive dissonance? About 50 miles west from the Lummi Tribe out on the very northwestern tip of the state, sits the Makah Tribal land. They share the same values as the Lummi’s as do many of the NW Tribes. However, the Makah’s hunt whales…with a .50 caliber Barrett!
I think we’re going to see the progs eat each other real soon.
Ha Ha. Great Excuse!
However, there is an Orca on Maui that the Native Folk are not too fond of anymore. (grrrrr)
How are whales getting caught up in those blades?
Greenie against greenie. Bagster is here in spirit with his popcorn-munching GIF.
Oh, yah mean the treehuggers have listened to the underwater audio of those asinine windmills and agree they would drive anyone to suicide?
Uncharacteristically rational of them.
Here you go... flying whales!
Fantasia 2000, Respighi’s Pines of Rome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EBy1lBXgtE
I’ll side with the whales on this one...anything to crush the global warming scum.
Sooner or later a scientific study will show the world’s mass of wind turbines is affecting, altering and disrupting air current, because at a minimum science does admit that large scale wind turbine arrays do have an affect on the wind currents they depend on, and do lower the wind current where they are operating.
A while ago I did an accidental, involuntary, and brutal experiment on my dog. Something went wrong with the computer printer, causing it to act up and emit all sorts of strange sounds, both audible and inaudible. The inaudible ones were devilish. He fell on the floor, screaming in total pain, and ran out on the office. Imagine what this must be like for a whale that exists and operates almost entirely on passive sonar, to have its full sonar system totally and painfully disrupted by prolonged horrific sounds that cause it absolutely excruciating pain and total disorientation. Very seldom do I post here in favor of the Tree Huggers. However, I’m all for the animals here and I with the Tree Huggers.
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