Posted on 02/20/2023 7:07:14 PM PST by golux
As aggressive excavation and submarine construction of over 1,500 offshore wind-farm turbines continues along the east coast of the United States, whales are likewise stranding, beaching and dying at an alarming and perplexing rate.
Almost 200 whales have been found dead since 2016, when the wind-turbine rush began, representing a fourfold annual increase over past years.
Seven dead whales have been discovered in New Jersey and New York in the past two months. In southeastern Virginia, in one recent week alone, three whales were found dead, just miles from two operational wind farms. Dying species include humpback whales and the endangered North Atlantic right whale, of which fewer than 350 are known to remain.
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In a conversation with this writer, Patrick Moore, co-founder and former member of Greenpeace, was unequivocal:
"The development of these wind farms is interfering massively with the actual, known habitat of these creatures. The turbines are inside known migratory pathways. The effect of the high-intensity acoustic pulses is unknown and the excavations are muddying waters for what will be years on end. It is not reasonable to say there is no possibility of a causal relationship here."
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"Greenpeace has betrayed the mission of its founders. They are protecting machinery instead of wild whales. When you look at the numbers, power output and actual cost effectiveness, there's a phoniness about the wind farms and a huge amount of environmental degradation. As far as the turbines ... May they rust in place."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
It’s our turn to chant, “save the whales!”
eagles and whales
i guess they arent as important as we were lead to believe
“Save the trees, save the bees! Save the whales, save those snails!” - George Carlin
Yes. And Peace is not as important as we were led to believe. Perpetual wars under Democrat presidents don't even merit a peep from the peaceniks. Hypocrites all of them.
The only “whale” that matters is the Big Guy and his bank account.
When the pinwheels are falling into the oceans and the prog companies can’t get anymore free money, then they will stop.
Whales and eagles don’t mean squat to them.
Not a damn thing.
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There were real environmentalists concerned about species, the earth, the air, the water, the ecosystem. Then the politicians realized they could co-opt the concept to skim billions off the taxpayer.
No snail darter protection for these whales when their well being runs afoul of the lefts’ green energy obsession.
He was vulgar but made some very good points.
They will stop building when tax benefits end. And grants and freebies.
Green technology is far more destructive.
These people are idiots and/or evil.
The brilliant commie libs screw up another one. Their ideas really suck.
Call Swift Boat Rear Admiral John F’ing Kerry, he has all the answers.
The left does speak up about wars when started by a Republican.
Absolutely disgusting, all in the name of a hoax that the RINO party refuses to fight. This is like claiming Martians from Mars are beaming Z-rays frying our brains and we must builda giant plastic barrier in the sky costing billions and RINOs just sit back and say “Yah, OK then” Where are the demands for debates? Let’s get atmospheric physicists like Richard Lindzen, Roy Spencer in a televised town hall meeting to discuss evidence with the “scientists” on the left, and keep hounding them to do so. Every time they say “science says” or “pay attention to the science” demand they show the science and the NAMES of the scientists.
They shut down lobster fishing in Maine to save whales who are rarely caught up in it, but wind farm construction killing them is no problem.
1. How long is the average lifespan of a whale?
2. How many whales are there??
3. How many die yearly???
The land based windmills have been chopping up endangered birds including eagles for decades and not a peep from the environmentalists. Imagine any other project that posed an actual threat like to endangered species ever even getting built.
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