Lawmakers, fishermen, and marine activists are calling for an investigation into whether offshore wind projects are killing marine life after a recent spate of dead whales washing up along the New Jersey-New York coastline.
Seafreeze fisheries liaison Meghan Lapp told Fox News that the Biden administration’s initiative to build wind farms to combat climate change could be threatening the lives of whales as an increasing number have turned up dead in various states across the country.
“I can’t authoritatively say that all of the whales that are washing up are because of offshore wind farms. But what I can tell you is that the seven whales that washed up off New Jersey in the past month have all washed up during intense geotechnical surveying of wind farm leases off of New Jersey,” Lapp said Friday on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
“On the East Coast, there has been an unusual mortality event for humpback whales from 2016 until now,” she continued. “The only thing that has changed in the ocean in that time is the fact there have been offshore wind surveys occurring from 2015 until now. Now, magically there are a bunch of humpback whales dying.”
Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., earlier Friday called for an investigation to determine whether the survey work for building offshore wind turbines is causing harm to marine life, demanding the cessation of “all offshore wind activity” until an investigation is conducted.
Lapp echoed the lawmaker’s call for an investigation, telling Carlson that the “intense sound” caused by such projects could be to blame for the recent spike in whale deaths.
“The only thing that changed in the ocean is the surveying activities that have been going on for offshore wind farms, which are essentially carpet bombing the ocean floor with intense sound,” she said.
“They need to take a very hard look at this. We know that intense sound can cause bleeding in the eardrums of whales and lesions in their ears. Now all of a sudden you have offshore wind farm surveys and you see them stranded on the beaches,” Lapp added.
Lapp warned about the impact of wind turbines in a recent episode of “Tucker Carlson Originals, titled “Blown Away: The People Vs Wind Power,” where the Fox News host and his production crew examined how turbines have the capability to decimate wildlife.
The project has been a key piece of the Biden administration’s climate agenda as they continue to push for clean energy development.
In July, Biden argued that offshore wind would create jobs and power millions of homes in the future. And the Department of Interior has expanded plans for offshore lease sales for wind development along the nation’s eastern and western coastlines and in the Gulf of Mexico.
But Lapp said the environmental impact of the project should be thoroughly examined by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration before the project can move forward.
“Nobody is reporting on this. Nobody is looking at this with a critical eye and really there needs to be a suspension of these surveys until somebody can do an investigation,” she said.
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If the offshore wind farm surveys might cause these whale deaths just wait until thousands of wind turbines are actually installed and running, generating vibrating noises in the ocean, something that can cause real problems for the whales.
The woke climate change cabal will say: We’re saving the planet you morons; killing a few thousand whales is a small price to pay!
Years ago, submarine – detecting sonar was blamed for disrupting whales off the west coast. The military said “Too bad, so sad” .
That sonar is below our audible frequency range, like the thump of a wind turbine, but is powerful. I imagine that the method used to geologically survey the ocean floor is even more powerful, and is transmitted hydraulically. Smashing two rocks together underwater is a juvenile dirty trick to pull on snorkelers.
The surveyors won’t stop on account of the whales. They’ll stop when their contracts are fulfilled.
Far and away, the most whale beachings happen in NZ or Australia or in places where there are no windfarms.
It is, at the moment, a mystery of why they do it
I agree that any attempt to connect these whale beaching’s on the east coast to offshore wind is premature. However. my expectation is that these projects would be subject to the SAME thorough environmental analysis as offshore oil & gas. Equal treatment…
Birds and Whales the victims of a false threat and just where is Greenpeace sailing around the seven seas in their Fossil furled ships leaving behind their own carbon footprints the size of twenty or more football fields. Those Eco-Freaks are suddenly silent