Wind Energy Projects Blamed for Alarming Increase in Whale Deaths

A carcass of a humpback whale washed up on the shores of a New Jersey beach Monday, making this the ninth corpse to be washed up in the Northeast in two months. It also raises questions about the cause of the deaths.

Clean Ocean Action, a conservation group, believes offshore wind power projects are to blame.

“This alarming number of deaths is unprecedented in the last half-century,” According to the group, the only difference from previous years was the exaggerated scope, scale, and magnitude of offshore. Wind powerplant Activity in the region

Center for Sustainable Fisheries Secretary Meghan Lapp said Wednesday that she believes that wind energy projects are to be blame.

DEAD HUMPBACK WHALE WASHES UP ON NJ BAY, 9TH STRANDING ALONG NEW YORKNEW JERSEY COAST OVER 2 MONTHS

On Monday, a dead humpback whale measuring 24 feet in length washed up on Manasquan Island, New Jersey. (Point Pleasant Mayor Paul Kanitra

“What I think is important for the public to understand is that this is not unprecedented when it comes to offshore wind. In the U.K., during the height of their offshore wind activity in 2018, 1,000 whales died and washed up on U.K. beaches. and, when people started to make the connection between offshore wind and dead whales, the government, the media and the offshore wind industry quashed it and people began to think, ‘Well, this is just normal.’ It is not normal,” She said.

Lapp claimed that Taiwanese environmental groups raised awareness of the problem in Taiwan as well as about it in their country when whales began to wash up. “dead and dead.”

“One of them was still alive. It was swimming in circles because it was deaf and that, I do believe, is what is happening here.” She added.

THIRD DEAD WALE FOUND MILES FROM THE OFFSHOREWIND FARM IN LESS THAN ONE WEEK

Residents in Atlantic City, N.J. have protested against the construction of similar offshore wind turbines. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry, File)

“NOAA is not taking any internal samples of the ears of these animals to determine if the offshore wind activity is causing this because a deaf whale is a dead whale.”

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), “marine mammals, including whales, use underwater sound as their primary way to communicate and access their environment.

“Communication is vital for survival and communication.”

HUMPBACK WHALE WASHES UP ON MARYLAND SHORE

Lapp said there are thousands of turbines planned for the U.S. East Coast.

A massive whale washed ashore on Long Island, New York Monday, authorities said. Several dead whales have wash ashore along the East Coast in recent months.  (Fox New York )

“They are geotechnical surveying the ocean floor. Because they want to tell 100 stories, their equipment emits intense sound at the ocean floor. How deep is the sea floor?

“As these survey boats are going, there have been over 100 offshore wind survey vessels approved by NOAA to harass marine mammals of over 10,000 survey days on the East Coast of the U.S.”

Lapp stated that if whales are unable to hear, ships can hit them and cause disorientation.

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Clean Ocean Action requested that the Biden administration order a restraining order on their website. “thorough, transparent investigation” With the whale deaths “independent, third-party scientist oversight.”

They also demanded a halt to all offshore in water activity by the wind sector and any planned projects that could be impacted by the crisis.

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