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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on May 01, 2023, 10:59:42 am
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Feds admit offshore wind can kill whales!
By David Wojick |April 27th, 2023
Despite public proclamations of innocence, it turns out BOEM and NOAA clearly acknowledge the deadly threat of offshore wind development to marine mammals. Not surprisingly they do it in documents that are subject to judicial review, lest they be caught fibbing.
Of course these admissions are well hidden, buried in the depths of thousand page documents, but they are there to be found. These are the Draft Environmental Impact Statements (DEIS) that precede each offshore wind project. They are jointly prepared by BOEM and NOAA.
The key is that the overall project EIS includes the EIS for NOAA’s harassment authorizations for the construction of that project. In fact you can find this language by searching the DEIS for the word “harassment”. I am told that this is standard language which varies little from project to project.
https://www.cfact.org/2023/04/27/feds-admit-offshore-wind-can-kill-whales/