Thank you for writing about this. Yes, the drumming noise is insufferable to the dolphins and whales. They try to escape it, get disoriented because it’s interfering with their echolocation abilities and they inadvertently beach themselves to death. The U.S. Navy learned and documented this years ago.
The position of everyone who actually lives on the northeastern coast, and are paying attention, is the surveying for and construction of offshore wind turbines is killing all marine life, including the hundreds of whales and dolphins washed ashore or floated dead out to sea. I saw this first hand. I’ve lived on the Jersey Shore for 60+ years and I don’t ever remember a dead whale washing ashore. Ever. Now it’s a common occurrence.
As for the North Atlantic right whale, there are only 70 calving females left. It’s criminal what they’re doing. There is so much more to be said about this, but my vote was for the people who vow to stop this destruction of our oceans and marine life.
The selling off of ocean leases by BOEM to foreign countries and the hundreds and hundreds of approved “takes” (aka killing of marine life as a side effect of surveying and construction— yes they knew this would happen) was fueled by pure greed wrapped up in the pretty “green new deal” fallacy. They know exactly what’s happening and why. But the government subsidies were too good and Wall Street loved the investment, including our own governor, a former Wall St. Investor. The vote of the citizens was completely removed and the entire project was done without our approval. In fact, the first the citizens of NJ learned about the hundreds of planned offshore wind turbines along our shores was when a dead whale washed up on our beach in February 2023.
Without the government subsidies the entire offshore wind industry would collapse — as it should.
Thank you for writing about this. Yes, the drumming noise is insufferable to the dolphins and whales. They try to escape it, get disoriented because it’s interfering with their echolocation abilities and they inadvertently beach themselves to death. The U.S. Navy learned and documented this years ago.
The position of everyone who actually lives on the northeastern coast, and are paying attention, is the surveying for and construction of offshore wind turbines is killing all marine life, including the hundreds of whales and dolphins washed ashore or floated dead out to sea. I saw this first hand. I’ve lived on the Jersey Shore for 60+ years and I don’t ever remember a dead whale washing ashore. Ever. Now it’s a common occurrence.
As for the North Atlantic right whale, there are only 70 calving females left. It’s criminal what they’re doing. There is so much more to be said about this, but my vote was for the people who vow to stop this destruction of our oceans and marine life.
The selling off of ocean leases by BOEM to foreign countries and the hundreds and hundreds of approved “takes” (aka killing of marine life as a side effect of surveying and construction— yes they knew this would happen) was fueled by pure greed wrapped up in the pretty “green new deal” fallacy. They know exactly what’s happening and why. But the government subsidies were too good and Wall Street loved the investment, including our own governor, a former Wall St. Investor. The vote of the citizens was completely removed and the entire project was done without our approval. In fact, the first the citizens of NJ learned about the hundreds of planned offshore wind turbines along our shores was when a dead whale washed up on our beach in February 2023.
Without the government subsidies the entire offshore wind industry would collapse — as it should.
I am not affiliated with them, but if you want to learn more go to https://www.wind-watch.org
The drumming noise in the documentary must be insufferable to the ocean life near those wind turbines.