The Wind Turbine Industry Has A “Whale” Of A Problem Despite Leftist’ Denials
The left wants us to believe that they are on the side of everything good and righteous. That the myth of climate change is real and their incessant push for everything to be powered by anything, but fossil fuel is justified. They want us to believe that they love and protect nature, and the conservative thought process is anti-planet and profit driven.
What they don’t tell you is that electric cars, because of the need for lithium-Ion batteries, are far more destructive to the planet. The lithium batteries are extremely expensive, heat-sensitive, hard to recycle, have a relatively low energy density, and a short service life. In addition, discarded batteries pose a threat to human health and environmental sustainability, lithium-ion batteries may overheat and burn when exposed to high temperatures or when penetrated, releasing carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide that can be very harmful to human health.
The government under the Biden administration is also demonstrating their incompetence by mindlessly pushing the wind industry, even though a recent National Wind Coordinating Committee (NWCC) review of peer-reviewed research found evidence of bird and bat deaths from collisions with wind turbines and due to changes in air pressure caused by the spinning turbines, as well as from habitat disruption. Wind Turbines also create a low-level noise, they aren’t aesthetically pleasing, and there are limited locations suitable for wind turbines.
One place that the government and MSM want you to believe is fine for these monstrosities is in the waters off of the east coast.
Michael Shellenberger is an American author and journalist who writes about politics, the environment, climate change, and nuclear power. He calls the industrial wind projects which are proven to kill whales, the biggest environmental scandal in the world. Last year in a Public released its documentary “Thrown to the Wind,” he exposed the price the world is actually paying for the industrialization of our oceans by offshore wind corporations, the killing of whales and the potential extinction of an entire cetacean species.
On Monday, he released a follow-up to the original, “Thrown to the Wind, Part 2,” which provides more hard evidence that the wind industry is harming whales.
“We won a big victory last year, in helping to halt a wind project off the coast of New Jersey,” Shellenberger says. Unfortunately, plans are moving forward on the wind projects along the rest of the East Coast. “If they go forward, they will make the North Atlantic right whale extinct.”
The following is Shellenberger’s dissertation on this cruel charade that’s being instigated by the left at the expense one of nature’s most revered species.
Illegal Levels of Whale-Killing Pile-Driving Noise by Wind Industry Documented
The wind industry is not killing endangered whales off the East Coast, say government agencies and the news media.
But it is. Before 2016, when the wind industry’s increased boat traffic, sonar mapping, and construction began, eight humpback whales were found dead per year between Virginia and Maine. Since 2016, an average of 25 humpbacks were found dead annually. And last year, there were a record 83 whales found dead.
And yet the Associated Press insisted last month that “there’s no evidence that limited wind farm construction on the Atlantic Coast has directly resulted in any whale deaths.”
That’s true. But there’s also no evidence that smoking directly causes cancer. Nor is there evidence that more carbon dioxide directly warms the planet. AP is playing the exact same, deliberately misleading, game that it accuses the tobacco and fossil fuels industries of playing.
This is disturbing because the US government and media are blaming the spike in whale deaths on climate change, which is far less direct than the wind industry’s huge increase in boat traffic in previously untrafficked sea lanes, its high-decibel sonar, and its high-decibel pile driving.
Last year, the most thorough investigation to date of whale deaths found a strong correlation with wind industry activity. Lisa Linowes of Save the Right Whales Coalition did the study.
Linowes tracked whale deaths within the same timeframe and location as offshore wind sonar surveys. “As the amount of offshore wind activity increased within an area,” she notes, “so did whale deaths.”
In last year’s “Thrown to the Wind” documentary, Rand documented illegally high levels of whale-harming sonar noise by the wind industry.
And now, in a sequel, “Thrown to the Wind, Part 2,” filmmaker Jonah Markowitz documents Rand measuring illegal levels of noise from pile-driving by the wind industry off of Martha’s Vineyard.
The boat crew can hear the noise through the air. “That’s loud to hear from here,” says one of the men. “And I got my earmuffs on and everything.”
It’s so loud that Rand has to adjust his equipment. “I am overloading,” he says. “I need to change my gain.”
Says one sailor, “Sounds like a noise from a horror movie.”
“Sounds like thunder coming in,” says another. “It’s insane.”
The sound is equivalent to the blast from a 155-millimeter Howitzer.
The environmental groups and Democratic governors championing the illegal pile-driving off the East Coast are the same groups that fought oil drilling there just a few years ago, claiming it would be too noisy.
It is illegal to harm or kill endangered species. The North Atlantic right whale is critically endangered, with fewer than 400 individuals in the species left. The push by the US government, the wind industry, and the news media to build industrial wind projects proven to kill whales is the biggest environmental scandal in the world.
A handful of honest conservationists are fighting billions in wind industry/taxpayer money. That money has financially corrupted the politicians, the regulatory agencies, and the news media through political donations and advertisements.
The money has even corrupted the people who do the autopsies of the whales.
I for one am extremely glad that Shellenberger has taken up this fight. The left does not care about the environment or any species that lives within it. That includes the human species which they have publicly stated on many occasions needs to be drastically reduced.
Everything that they do regarding the farce of climate change is all about the redistribution of wealth and control. In this case, they know that wind turbines are effectively useless, but their construction and installation reroutes money into the pockets of the elites. They care nothing about the collateral damage, which in this case is the whales.
The U.S. Public needs to understand how horrific and all encompassing this farce is. It is one puzzle piece in the makeup of the New World Order, and the quicker we all understand that they will stop at nothing, the greater the opportunity we have to stop them.
