Patrick Moore, a former Greenpeace leader, says work on wind turbines may well be to blame for surging whale deaths, including four minkes last week.
, which has two turbines off Virginia Beach, has been fully operational since fall 2020.
Survey vessels prospecting where turbines are going to be built use depth-sounding sonar to create an image of the seafloor. It is this process which Patrick Moore says risks harm to whales. The BOEM says that part of the surveying process is monitoring for marine mammals and other protected species.
The state’s Board of Public Utilities has awarded more than 3,750 megawatts of offshore wind power potential, or enough to power more than 3.2 million homes. One of the state’s two projects, , which will be 15 miles off Atlantic City, could be operational as soon as next year. NOAA and Gov. Murphy both rejected any link between sound waves from marine sonars and other surveying equipment to profile the seabed and the sharp uptick in whale mortalities.
“The results of their investigations have been unanimous and unmistakable: at this time, there is no evidence of specific links between recent whale mortalities and ongoing surveys for offshore wind development,” Lawrence said. A dead humpback whale on Brigantine Beach, New Jersey, in early March. At least 28 humpbacks deaths have been tallied in the state since 2016, surpassed only by New York and Massachusetts, federal data shows.191 humpback whales stranded along the East Coast since January 2016Greenpeace has long distanced itself from Moore, accusing the 75-year-old Canadian of lobbying for polluters and exaggerating his role.
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