Health Sec. RFK Jr.: Wind farms ‘wiping out the whale population’ and hurting fisheries
"During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke about offshore wind farms."
"During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke about offshore wind farms."
"Research indicates pile-driving noise is approximately 3.2 times more harmful to whales than sonar surveys, dramatically increasing risks of permanent auditory injuries and fatalities."
Offshore wind project developers will object to any such pause, but they understand and agree that such an action lies totally within the legal discretion of the federal government for causes “authorized by law,” which applies to the presidential memorandum.
Whales migrating up and down the East Coast are getting at least a temporary reprieve from offshore wind.
CFACT, along with 10 other "Stop Offshore Wind" organizations and over 50 individuals from beach communities, joined forces to send a letter today to Secretary of Interior Douglas Burgum urging him to cease immediately all construction projects that are still slated to proceed ahead, despite President Trump’s executive order halting offshore wind.
The Trump White House says that the federal government’s leasing and permitting of onshore and offshore wind projects could lead to “great harm,” with negative impacts on navigational safety, transportation, national security, commercial interests and marine mammals.
"In light of various alleged legal deficiencies underlying the federal government’s leasing and permitting of onshore and offshore wind projects, the consequences of which may lead to grave harm..." is the conclusion that guided President Trump's Executive Order suspending wind project permitting.
Offshore wind industry should be more worried that even projects started during the Biden administration could be canceled
What is really Missing In Action is an environmental impact assessment for the entire West Coast Program.
President Trump took action to halt offshore wind turbine permitting and construction for review. A victory for nature, whales, fishermen, the power grid and ratepayers. Read the full Executive Order....
CFACT demonstrators took to the streets of Richmond, Virginia to demand Dominion Energy stop erecting massive wind turbines off our coast and to issue a plea to President Trump to call an immediate halt to their construction.
The turbines would lie directly in the migration path of highly endangered right whales.
Many of these 41 CFACT articles were sent to key NOAA whale protection people when published over a period of 2.5 years.
CFACT has been in the forefront of the effort to expose the folly of this floating wind foolishness.
The very legal and regulatory obstacles the Greens erected and deployed against fossil fuel companies they were opposed to are now coming back full circle.