« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: NOAA proposes massively cruel offshore sonar survey  (Read 210 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline rangerrebew

  • TBR Contributor
  • *****
  • Posts: 176,814
NOAA proposes massively cruel offshore sonar survey
« on: June 05, 2023, 06:40:19 am »
NOAA proposes massively cruel offshore sonar survey
By David Wojick |June 5th, 2023|1 Comment

You would think that with all the uproar over whale deaths, NOAA and the offshore wind industry would be more careful about harassing huge numbers of marine mammals. On the contrary NOAA’s latest proposal sets a new record for needless cruelty.

NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is taking comments on an outrageously destructive harassment proposal from Invenergy Wind, off the coast of New Jersey, where whale deaths have been greatest. Here is the proposal: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/action/incidental-take-authorization-invenergy-wind-offshore-llcs-site-characterization-surveys-new

It is called a “site characterization survey” and it does include a new offshore wind development site that Invenergy picked up last year with a whopping bid of $645 million. That apparently buys a lot of Federal cooperation, because this is nothing like a site survey.

You see the site is a mere 131 square miles, while the proposed sonar blasting survey area is over 6,000 square miles. In other words the site is a mere 2% of the survey area, so it is clearly not a site survey.

https://www.cfact.org/2023/06/05/noaa-proposes-massively-cruel-offshore-sonar-survey/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=noaa-proposes-massively-cruel-offshore-sonar-survey&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=noaa-proposes-massively-cruel-offshore-sonar-survey
Logged
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »