The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on January 26, 2023, 11:53:33 am
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The strange coincidence of the Offshore Wind Industry and 178 dead whales
By Jo Nova
There have been a lot of dead whales on the East Coast of the US lately. David Wojik noticed that NOAA was investigating 178 dead whales in something called an Unusual Mortality Event, or a UME — it’s like an episode of X-Files.
NOAA says this wave of strandings mysteriously started in 2016 which was before the offshore wind factory industry got going — but Wojik points out the timing matches very well. Offshore lease sales for the wind industry ramped up 2015-16. There were nine big sales, he says, off New Jersey, New York, Delaware and Massachusetts. And not so coincidentally, apparently 2016 was also the year that NOAA started giving permission slips for whale hunts, sorry whale harrassments for “geotechnical and site characterization surveys“.
In bureaucrat-valium-lingo, the license to cause incidental dead whales is called an IHA — or an Incidental Harassment Authorization. This appears to have fooled Greenpeace.
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/the-strange-coincidence-of-the-offshore-wind-industry-and-178-dead-whales/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-strange-coincidence-of-the-offshore-wind-industry-and-178-dead-whales
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You don't suppose, do you, that money is more important than the environment for green weenies. :whistle: