Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart; Green energy projects may soon rival the kill rate of Japanese Whale “research” vessels, if claims of a connection are true.
Another dead whale washes up at Jersey Shore, drawing worried crowd
Updated: Feb. 15, 2023, 6:51 a.m.
Published: Feb. 13, 2023, 4:49 p.m.
By Steven Rodas | NJ Advance Media for NJ.comThe ninth dead whale to wash ashore on the New York-New Jersey coastline in recent months was reported Monday, officials with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center confirmed.
A crowd gathered as the whale floated about 100 yards offshore near Whiting Avenue Beach in Manasquan on Monday afternoon. As some onlookers stopped to take photos, police were seen cordoning off the area.
“We’re putting together a team with NOAA right now to respond,” Sheila Dean, director of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center, told NJ Advance Media on Monday afternoon.
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The center, as well as NOAA, have continued to state that offshore wind survey work in the area is not at fault for the whale deaths. Although some groups have called the series of strandings unprecedented, federal and state officials have yet to conclude that’s the case and continue to investigate the deaths.
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While some towns have called for a pause on offshore wind pre-construction, Donovan said Manasquan has not followed suit.
“As soon as someone can convince me offshore wind work is responsible for any of the whale deaths I’ll more than happy sign onboard,” Donovan said.
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Read more: https://www.nj.com/news/2023/02/another-dead-whale-washes-up-at-jersey-shore-drawing-worried-crowd.html
Its not just whales which may be suffering from the offshore wind industry. There are claims turbines continue to wreak havoc on the environment even after they are constructed, with evidence that EMF pollution from undersea electric cables devastates the ability of crabs to function normally – kind of like how moths are drawn to electric lights. Other sea creatures like sharks also sense electricity, so I wouldn’t be surprised if a whole range of sea creatures are being messed up by offshore wind, which have not yet shown up on the research radar.
I doubt greens are going to get too excited by this latest whale death, or all the other problems offshore wind appears to be causing.
The days when greens chained themselves to trees to stop timber cutting, or set out in boats to stop the despoilers of nature, those days are mostly gone.
Nowadays, in my opinion greens are more likely to be in league with the timber cutters and whale killers and destructive hydro projects, than working to oppose them. So long as the environmental destruction is performed to advance their green energy agenda, they don’t seem to care. Most Greens seem to just wave green energy projects through, no matter what the cost to the environment.
I love the smell of rotting whales in the morning.
Smells like –
offshore wind turbines.
I must dig out my whale oil lamps from the cellar. I knew they would come back into use once the Green Energy movement advanced their ideas far enough.
Can we ask the offshore wind industry to look at operating in South Georgia ?
That would be so much more environmentally sound, as the boiling vats for the slaughtered whales are still in place and the dead whales making landfall there would be so convenient for the rendering pots.
NB that is South Georgia South Atlantic, not the Eastern USA, although the way things are going, who knows?
Why not convince us that intermittent wind turbines are responsible for reliable electricity production first?
Unless they wash up it’s out of sight out of mind
The same goes for all so-called green stuff – even slave and child labour
Jeremy Clarkson had an exposé on the non-trivial problems of removing a dead seal from an Isle of Man beach IIRC
Whoa, NOAA, the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 requires: Section 403, Strandings, and Section 404, Unusual Mortality Events, NOAA to investigate these events quickly and thoroughly. Wait for it. OK, don’t wait for it.
I’m sure that scientists from all over academia are rushing write up their applications for grants to study the effects of offshore wind turbine construction and operations on sea life.
They are no doubt just as interested in that as WHO is in continuing to investigate where and how COVID 19 originated.
“Nowadays, in my opinion greens are more likely to be in league with the timber cutters and whale killers and destructive hydro projects, than working to oppose them.”
Now, now- let’s not mix in timber cutters with whale killers and destructive hydro projects.
From the article: “The center, as well as NOAA, have continued to state that offshore wind survey work in the area is not at fault for the whale deaths.”
Now, how would they know this at this time? The answer is they do not know this. They don’t have enough information to make these statements, so they are in effect, lying to the public.
All those whales could have been harvested, instead greentards are killing them in the name of their religion.
Whales and other marine mammals like dolphins and orcas have always been known to die in droves and wash ashore due to disease. Just like every other animal and plant on Earth including humans.
What is the supposed mechanism from wind turbine surveys that would hurt a whale? Sonar? Every damned fishing boat in the world is equipped with sonars (i.e. fish finders and depth sounders), so it is impossible to blame that on offshore wind.
As for EMF that is a myth that won’t die away, despite being debunked thousands of times. There is no EMF from power transmission lines that could possibly affect marine life or any other life. Every power line in every electrified community in the world has multiple lines with tens to hundreds of thousands of volts passing through them to supply, well, everything and everyone … whether up high in the air on a transmission tower, or underground. Not a single credible link between that and any other illness known to man or the environment has ever been demonstrated.
Really, WUWT ought to be much better than that when it comes to science and engineering and industrial reality. This post is malthusian garbage.
It was the Balloons wot dunit.
In a role reversal, the new “Save the Whales” bumper stickers will be on the large trucks and SUVs and not on the EVs and Priuses. /sarc
Can someone drag the dead whales close to the Obama seaside mansion complex? He deserves it most.
Check out the garbage article in USA Today. Whales? What whales?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/02/11/whale-deaths-and-windmills/11178432002/
sean hayes , noaa’s head of protected and endangered species has called offshore wind the greatest threat to whale survival . his reports are kept quiet and not released to the public except thru FOIA requests . it should be obvious that whales live in a world of sound , not light , and are 100’s of times more sensitive to sound than humans . the acoustic explosion necessary for exploring for and building turbines is massive . the widespread propagation of low frequency sound is also massively intrusive in whale navigation , communication and feeding . only someone in denial can ignore these effects . it’s crazy to go full speed ahead when so little is known . once the turbine building is widespread it will be too late , at least for the right whales whose protected area is slated for one of the first big wind “ farms “
“As soon as someone can convince me offshore wind work is responsible for any of the whale deaths I’ll more than happy sign onboard,” Donovan said.
typical skeptic argument.
its not true unless i believe it.
youll have to convince me because im never wrong.
Well, offshore oil has been using deep seismic since the 1970s in the North Sea, and offshore wind has been (expensively) harvesting off shore wind around GB for several years, and we haven’t seen any increase in marine mammal deaths so far as I know.
Could it be that either
1, no-one bothered much if they saw a dead whale, or
2, there are more whales around now and these dead ones are just old ones whose time has come?
Maybe post mortems might be in order to see if there is a common cause of death.