WRITTEN BY DAVID WOJICK, PH.D. ON APR 26, 2023. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
NOAA Proposes Allowing The Harassment Of Vanishing Right Whales For Big Wind
stranded right whale…NOAA is proposing, for offshore wind development, to authorize a horrific 706 cases of physical harassment of Right Whales, whose dwindling population is down to just 340 magnificent critters.
The average whale will get hammered roughly twice. [emphasis, links added]
The Right Whales migrate along the coast twice a year. Migration requires repeatedly running a gauntlet of dangerous offshore wind projects. Most likely some whales will be hit many times.
The harassment numbers for each proposed project are listed below. There are eight full-scale construction projects and six blasting sonar site survey efforts.
Many are off of New Jersey’s coast.
Harassment in this case means subjecting a whale to unsafe levels of very loud noise.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/noaa-proposes-allowing-the-harassment-of-vanishing-right-whales-for-big-wind/
