DEAD WHALES - OFFSHORE WIND DEVELOPMENT

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Anonymous comments - 

Warmonger Johnson is a champion of environmentaly destructive climate change fraud.

Evidence says offshore wind development is killing lots of whales

There are lots of ways this sonar blasting might cause whales to die. 

Simply fleeing the incredible noise could cause ship strikes or fish gear entanglements, the two leading causes of whale deaths. 

Or the whales could be deafened, increasing their chances of being struck by a ship later on. Direct bleeding injury, like getting their ears damaged, is another known risk, possibly leading to death from infection. So there can be a big time difference between blasting and death.

Note also that these deaths need not be in the immediate vicinity of the sonar blasting, so spatial correlation is unlikely. Humpbacks in particular are prodigious travelers. One group was tracked traveling 3,000 miles in just 28 days, over 100 miles a day on average. Another group routinely migrates 5,000 miles. Both are winter-summer migrations which can happen twice a year.

Thus a sonar blasting, site characterization in one place could easily lead to multiple whale deaths hundreds of miles away. If one of these blasters suddenly goes off near a group of whales they might go off in different directions, then slowly die.

The point is that the huge 2016 jump in annual humpback mortality coincides with the huge jump in NOAA Incidental Harassment Authorizations. It is that simple and surely NOAA Fisheries knows this.

Nor is this just about humpbacks. Some of the dead whales off New Jersey are endangered sperm whales. And of course there are the severely endangered North Atlantic Right Whales, on the verge of extinction.

https://alethonews.com/2023/01/24/evidence-says-offshore-wind-development-is-killing-lots-of-whales/

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Even worse, the IHA’s are about to make a much bigger jump. There are eleven pending IHA applications and eight of these are for actually constructing 8 different monster wind “farms”.

Anonymous -

Has anyone told King Charles that offshore wind turbines are damaging the environment and killing whales on an industrial scale ?

King Charles to hand back millions in wind farm profits to the nation

The King has turned down the opportunity to boost palace funding, opting instead to donate millions of pounds worth of wind farm profits to the nation.

It comes after the Crown Estate announced a landmark energy deal that will generate gross revenues of £1 billion a year for at least three years.

The six projects, three of which are located off the North Wales, Cumbria and Lancashire coast, with three in the North Sea off the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire coast, will generate enough renewable electricity to power more than seven million homes.

A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: “In view of the offshore energy windfall, the Keeper of the Privy Purse has written to the Prime Minister and Chancellor to share the King’s wish that this windfall be directed for wider public good, rather than to the Sovereign Grant, through an appropriate reduction in the proportion of Crown Estate surplus that funds the Sovereign Grant.”

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/king-charles-to-hand-back-millions-in-wind-farm-profits-to-the-nation/ar-AA16uCGa