north atlantic right whales, Tag

The big question is whether unavoidable yet deadly offshore wind harassment is even legal under the MMPA and the Endangered Species Act.

This long-standing conjecture that wind kills whales may be confirmed.

An order by a federal judge on Monday delayed the start of “pile driving” construction for a massive wind project off the Atlantic Coast by Dominion Energy.

At a time when incidents of dead whales washing ashore on the Atlantic coast are spiking, the lawsuit would force Dominion to cease construction of massive wind turbines for its Virginia Offshore Wind (VOW) project in the...

Where are Greenpeace? The post The Wind Industry Is Killing Whales–Michael Shellenberger first appeared on Watts Up With That?.

Of course these admissions are well hidden, buried in the depths of thousand page documents

Assuming a population of 340 this proposed Take Authorization is a horrific 208% of the dwindling Right Whale population.

In the crosshairs are the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which does the environmental impact assessments, and NOAA Fisheries which is supposed to protect the whales and other sea critters.

. By siding with machines over living, endangered whales they have betrayed their founders and everyone who really cares about the natural world.

What is amusing is that FERC has a rule making ongoing on constraining renewables, because they screw up the grid.

The threat to whales is hardly the only problem with Biden’s plan, as proven by an analysis of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Coastal Virginia Offshore...

Judging by the effect of past climate agreements on the actions of nations around the world, the agreements reached at the COP 27 meeting held in Egypt in November are probably not worth the paper they are printed on.