Island Town Deploys ‘Save the Whales’ Message Boards As Officials Call for Offshore Wind Pause
An island community has made no bones about its position on calls to place a moratorium on offshore wind development research until experts can determine whether the offshore soundings have interrupted whale communication patterns. Officials have said a rash of nearly 20 marine mammals, mostly humpback whales, have been discovered deceased, washed up on beaches or floating offshore. The calls for a moratorium center on research mapping taking place offshore prior to wind turbine construction. As it currently stands, no turbines have been built off the New Jersey coast, nor are any under construction. Crews, however, are performing geological seafloor mapping and surveying using acoustic equipment that some have argued could send marine mammals off their migration tracks or disable them in the wild. >click to read< 08:40
As is the case with most things the government does, it appears that no thought has ever been considered into the negative ramifications that could possibly arise from this boondoggle.
Or perhaps enough money is being spent in the right places and with the right people to make any negative impacts go away. The stench of corruption is not a pleasant odor and this situation reeks to high heaven.
But why worry about it. All that’s at stake is the is the entire east coast of the United States ecosystem.
READY-FIRE-AIM!