Species Archives - Page 6 of 10

CFACT calls for banning offshore wind monopiles in favor of suction buckets to save whales

Suction buckets are a wind turbine foundation design that eliminates the need for those incredibly loud giant monopiles.

By David Wojick |2024-03-11T10:02:32-04:00March 11th, 2024|Comments Off

Building offshore wind can permanently deafen porpoises, but OK now with Bubble Walls?

Ocean noise is such a problem the pile-driving teams use acoustic deterrents — loud noises designed to scare marine life away before they get started on the industrial noise. But even the “safety warning” may itself be dangerous.

By Joanne Nova |2024-01-04T13:33:49-05:00January 4th, 2024|Comments Off

This landmark conservation bill has been an abject failure for fifty years

The Endangered Species Act has failed at recovering species.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2023-12-26T09:05:17-05:00December 26th, 2023|Comments Off

NAS study raises concern over offshore wind harming endangered whales

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released a lengthy report on what is known as the “dead ocean” threat with a focus on the Nantucket region, specifically what are called the Nantucket shoals.

By David Wojick |2025-11-24T10:20:04-05:00December 1st, 2023|Comments Off

CFACT partnership effort to save Africa’s lions update

BY PATRICIA VAUGHN: In an effort to save lions in Sub-Saharan Africa, CFACT has partnered with conservationist Patricia Vaughn who has worked extensively in this field.

By CFACT Ed |2023-11-20T10:01:11-05:00November 19th, 2023|Comments Off

CFACT issues “intent to sue” over offshore wind, releases new study

Government regulators are industrializing our coast without understanding the danger to marine mammals, and CFACT's study shows the turbines don't even reduce CO2.

By Craig Rucker |2023-11-17T08:46:12-05:00November 16th, 2023|Comments Off

PRESS RELEASE: Coalition files intent to sue federal agencies to stop whale-killing Virginia wind project

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the National Marine Fisheries Service have violated federal law by finding that the Virginia Offshore Wind project will not result in the destruction of the North Atlantic right whale as a species.

By CFACT Ed |2023-11-14T10:28:38-05:00November 14th, 2023|Comments Off

Official CFACT statement on Maryland offshore wind

The potential harm to marine mammals must be taken into account. Read now.

By Craig Rucker |2023-10-20T09:45:08-04:00October 20th, 2023|Comments Off

VIDEO: CFACT helps organize Cape May protest to save the whales

The Biden Administration's rush to industrialize our unspoiled coast threatens marine mammals. Watch CFACT's Craig Rucker and the protest to save the whales at beautiful Cape May.

By CFACT Ed |2026-03-09T11:27:48-04:00October 17th, 2023|Comments Off

Offshore wind is systematically violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act

New evidence says that offshore wind sonar surveys may have committed hundreds of thousands of violations of the MMPA, each potentially subject to tens of thousands of dollars in fines.

By David Wojick |2023-09-30T15:01:09-04:00September 28th, 2023|Comments Off

BOEM’S Right Whale coverup and deception

BOEM pretends it knows the noise impairment levels for Right Whales but hides its own admitted lack of knowledge on the issue and also obscures its ongoing research.

By Collister Johnson |2023-09-30T15:08:04-04:00September 27th, 2023|Comments Off

Brazil’s big cats latest victims of wind turbines

The jaguars and pumas of northeastern Brazil are being wantonly sacrificed in the name of “clean,” “climate friendly” renewable energy.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2023-09-21T08:27:10-04:00September 22nd, 2023|Comments Off

A tale of two whale protection groups

One focuses on the harm caused by offshore wind, the other may be waking up to the danger.

By David Wojick |2023-09-18T12:06:59-04:00September 18th, 2023|Comments Off

Looming ESA listing of Dunes Sagebrush Lizard roils desert Southwest

Swamped by comments opposed to the listing, the FWS extended the comment period for an additional 30 days, until Oct. 2.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2023-09-18T11:23:50-04:00September 16th, 2023|Comments Off

Is Dominion’s offshore wind project ‘arbitrary and capricious’? NOAA says YES!

In NOAA's own opinion there will be eight human caused dead Right Whales caused by the project every year, even though the allowable amount is zero!

By Collister Johnson |2023-05-25T22:40:47-04:00May 27th, 2023|Comments Off