The proposed right whale Strategy fails to properly address the clearly great risks to the whale population posed by offshore wind operational noise. It also does not address the extensive research required to accurately assess these risks.
BOEM cannot research, collaborate, minimize, mitigate, monitor, avoid, evaluate, or otherwise strategize its way out of a zero take marine environment for the North Atlantic Right Whale.
"They're gonna be over 700 feet in height; the blades themselves are gonna be longer than a football field. And the right whale is right in the middle of all this and they're very much gonna be in danger."
The Heartland Institute president said, "But a project like this just literally drives the nail in the coffin of right whales."
“We are very pleased to have retained the services of a law firm with such extensive expertise in the requirements of federal laws such as NEPA and ESA,” said CFACT President Craig Rucker.
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