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The Greatest Threat to Right Whales Is Environmental Groups

April 3, 2023 | Follow the money | Save Right Whales |

A report titled, “Conflicts of Interest: Environmental Organizations Take Offshore Wind Industry Money,” has revealed that environmental groups such as National Wildlife Federation, Sierra Club, and Audubon Society accept millions of dollars in donations from the offshore wind industry.

The letter states, “When offshore wind companies donate to environmental groups, they often frame their donations as a way to mitigate the impacts of their projects by funding conservation research. But such research may be mere tokenism that serves to distract from the immediate risks of the proposed project.”

The existence of North Atlantic Right Whales is being threatened by destruction of their habitat by the offshore wind farm industry. Harm to whales and ocean life from sonar and technology associated with windfarms is well documented:

“These rolling walls of noise are no doubt too much for some marine wildlife. While little is known about any direct physiological effects of sonar waves on marine species, evidence shows that whales will swim hundreds of miles, rapidly change their depth (sometime leading to bleeding from the eyes and ears), and even beach themselves to get away from the sounds of sonar.”

Read Does Military Sonar Kill Marine Wildlife? – Scientific American

Link to Save Right Whales HERE

 

 

Link To Full Article HERE

PDF_Save RIght Whales REPORT – 2022-04-26

Offshore Wind Donations to Environmental Groups – Spreadsheet

 

Link To Save Right Whales HERE

 

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Calls grow to stop offshore wind farms as another whale washes up in New Jersey – JDfor2024

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We need a moratorium on all offshore wind projects

March 26,2023 | We need a moratorium on all offshore wind projects | Image Source

In response to the grave threat to ocean life as dolphins and whales continue washing up on the eastern shore, federal lawmakers are calling for a halt to offshore wind farms.

Led by New Jersey Representative Jeff Van Drew, Reps. Chris Smith of New Jersey, Andy Harris of Maryland, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Anthony D’Esposito of New York have introduced H. Res. 239, a Resolution calling for a moratorium on offshore wind projects.

Link To H. Res. 239 HERE

Rep Van Drew stated in a press release, “The numbers of deaths we are witnessing are staggering, and the concentration of where the animals have washed up raises serious and legitimate questions as to what role offshore wind surveying may be doing to the hearing of these mammals.”

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“These rolling walls of noise are no doubt too much for some marine wildlife. While little is known about any direct physiological effects of sonar waves on marine species, evidence shows that whales will swim hundreds of miles, rapidly change their depth (sometime leading to bleeding from the eyes and ears), and even beach themselves to get away from the sounds of sonar.”

READ:  Does Military Sonar Kill Marine Wildlife? – Scientific American

 

Sonar, acoustic sounding, and other destructive activities involved with windfarms are destroying sea life and must be immediately halted. -JD

 

 

Link To Full Press Release HERE

 

 

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Epic Fail: Offshore Wind Farms Are Killing Whales and Destroying Oceans

 

Calls grow to stop offshore wind farms as another whale washes up in New Jersey 

 

 

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Epic Fail: Offshore Wind Farms Are Killing Whales and Destroying Oceans

February 21, 2023 | Epic Fail: Offshore Wind Farms Are Killing Whales and Destroying Oceans |Image Source |

The policies being promoted to support “green” industry have turned out to be gigantic failures that are actually destroying the environment and Life on Earth.

For example, “green” products such as electric vehicles and wind farms are exponentially increasing environmental degradation and human rights abuses due to the mining for exotic minerals and metals required to manufacture wind turbines, solar panels, and EV batteries.

 

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 Is it ethical to purchase a lithium battery powered EV? 

CARBON CAPTURE PIPELINES = ENVIRONMENTAL IDIOCRACY! 

 

Another example of “green” policy failure is “climate” modification activities such as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) to block the sun.

1. It’s a fact that sunlight is essential for plants to grow, farming and health.

2. Blocking the sun defeats the purpose of having solar panels.

3. SAI is poisoning the environment with harmful contaminants such as sulfur dioxide (SO2), known to cause acid rain and asthma, especially in children.

As for the destruction caused by wind farms, in addition to killing birds, destroying our beautiful coastlines, and harming marine life, whales in particular are being tortured by the projects because the wind farm operations violently disrupt the natural ocean sounds with extremely loud noise so that whales are unable to communicate or navigate, and so they beach themselves to try and escape the assault.

READ:  Does Military Sonar Kill Marine Wildlife? – Scientific American

Sonar, acoustic sounding, and other destructive activities involved with windfarms are destroying sea life and must be immediately halted.

Link To Article:  https://nypost.com/2023/01/13/7th-dead-whale-washes-up-on-jersey-shore/

 

Calls grow to stop offshore wind farms as another whale washes up in New Jersey – JDfor2024

 

Another dead whale found stranded on New York beach in ‘unusual mortality event’ along Atlantic coast | Fox News

 

Dead whales in New Jersey, New York, Florida: Humpbacks, an orca found (usatoday.com)

 

Rally Over Whale Deaths Planned In Point Pleasant Beach | Point Pleasant, NJ Patch

 

 

New Jersey Offshore Survey Operations include more than sonar.

 

 

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Calls grow to stop offshore wind farms as another whale washes up in New Jersey

Image Source_7th dead whale washed up on Jersey Shore ‘bad news on top of bad news’: Read New York Post Article HERE

January 15, 2023 | Calls grow to stop offshore wind farms as another whale washes up in New Jersey |

In only one month, 7 whales have washed up on the Jersey Shore. In November, 6 pilot whales washed up in Cape Cod. The whale die off is being attributed to the construction and operation of wind farms, involving the deployment of sonar, which produce loud, unpleasant sound that cannot be avoided by ocean life. The harmful impacts of this system on marine wildlife are well established, especially damaging to whales.

According to a 2009 Scientific American article, “Sonar systems—first developed by the U.S. Navy to detect enemy submarines—generate slow-rolling sound waves topping out at around 235 decibels; the world’s loudest rock bands top out at only 130. These sound waves can travel for hundreds of miles under water, and can retain an intensity of 140 decibels as far as 300 miles from their source.

These rolling walls of noise are no doubt too much for some marine wildlife. While little is known about any direct physiological effects of sonar waves on marine species, evidence shows that whales will swim hundreds of miles, rapidly change their depth (sometime leading to bleeding from the eyes and ears), and even beach themselves to get away from the sounds of sonar”.

This wind-farm atrocity is another example of how “green” industry is NOT ecofriendly and actually causes catastrophic harm to the environment and life. -JD

 

 

 

Link To Article HERE