As dead whales continue to wash up on New Jersey’s beaches, Garden State officials are hoping to issue the final permits in the coming months enabling construction to begin later this year on the state’s first offshore wind facility.
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!
NOAA is taking public comments on a massive proposal to harass large numbers of whales and other marine mammals by building a huge offshore wind complex.
The Biden Administration is preparing to rush approval for the Atlantic Shores offshore wind project, which is located approximately 10-20 miles off the coast of New Jersey between Atlantic City and Barnegat Light, despite the risk it poses to marine mammals -- particularly the severely endangered right whale.
These are the Draft Environmental Impact Statements (DEIS) that precede each offshore wind project. They are jointly prepared by BOEM and NOAA.
Read the take numbers and weep for the whales.
The heartbreaking sight of massive whales washing up dead on our coasts has concerned people everywhere asking, "why?"
"Damn the whales, full speed ahead" seems to be the offshore wind policy of Biden's NOAA.
Thirteen humpback whales in calendar year 2023 have washed ashore from Maine to Florida, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which already is approaching last year’s total of 19.
Have federal regulators turned a blind eye to the possibility of offshore wind farm encroachment on whale habitats?
Press coverage of the tragic whale deaths is a supreme study in confusion, especially the foolish attempts to somehow exonerate offshore wind.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management crafted a draft EIS that is “woefully inadequate” in addressing potential impacts to severely endangered right whales.
New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith is outraged by the ever growing whale death toll, that coincides with rapidly increasing offshore wind development. He has introduced a much needed bill calling for an investigation of the impact assessment practices of those federal agencies that approve and oversee OSW.
Vineyard's location is whale country, including the summer breeding ground of the severely endangered North Atlantic Right Whale.
There is nothing like a cluster of large whales washing up dead on the shores of New York, New Jersey, and Virginia.