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Dead whales and dolphins are a regular occurrence now. Attached is a running list for 2024 so far, not including the DE whale.
For anyone interested here is list of the energy projects being granted or already granted Incidental Take Authorizations. Ironically the government categorizes them under Marine Mammal Protection.
Typical description of the OSW work:-
"Project activities likely to result in incidental take include pile driving, potential unexploded ordnance or munitions and explosives of concern detonation, and vessel-based site assessment surveys using high-resolution geophysical equipment".
You have to be crazy to believe whales and dolphins won't be harmed by this.
Even more animals were just reported by the Marine Stranding Center tonight.
1. Cape May, dolphin
2. Wildwood, dolphin
3. Avalon, dolphin
4. Surf City, porpoise
5. Holgate, dolphin
6. Barnaget Light, dolphin
7. Island State Beach Park, dolphin
Also, another whale just died last night... its the 7th whale in 6 days.
Gotta love the serious warning statement the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society keeps repeating, despite the fact that they support offshore wind as the dead bodies are piling up on the beach:
"All dolphins, porpoises, and whales are protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which makes touching, feeding, or otherwise harming these animals illegal. The best way to assist these animals, and keep them and yourself safe, is by calling trained responders and maintaining a 150-foot distance."
"AMSEAS biologists examined the minke whale that washed ashore on Mecox Beach Wednesday morning, which was a 26-foot adult female. The whale was noted to be in an advanced state of decomposition and a cause of death was not able to be determined. Initial findings showed that there was no evidence of blunt force trauma (an indication of vessel strike), and there were no lesions noted in the whale’s cardiovascular tissues that are consistent with the infectious disease that has been documented in other minke whales. There was no food within the whale’s GI tract. While a definitive cause of death was not determined, it is just as important to rule out other causes of death, as our team was able to do by ruling out vessel strike and infectious disease as potential causes of death."
It's a real head scratcher, right? Gee, what new variable has been introduced into the marine environment that could cause all of these strandings and deaths?
They don't know but they are 100% certain it's not offshore wind work. Work which they know is permitted by NOAA to harm marine mammals.
I'm sure there are many dedicated scientists and conservationists working at the AMCS but their refusal to consider offshore wind work as a primary or secondary cause of death is ridiculous at this point.
Gotta love the serious warning statement the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society keeps repeating, despite the fact that they support offshore wind as the dead bodies are piling up on the beach:
"All dolphins, porpoises, and whales are protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which makes touching, feeding, or otherwise harming these animals illegal. The best way to assist these animals, and keep them and yourself safe, is by calling trained responders and maintaining a 150-foot distance."
"AMSEAS biologists examined the minke whale that washed ashore on Mecox Beach Wednesday morning, which was a 26-foot adult female. The whale was noted to be in an advanced state of decomposition and a cause of death was not able to be determined. Initial findings showed that there was no evidence of blunt force trauma (an indication of vessel strike), and there were no lesions noted in the whale’s cardiovascular tissues that are consistent with the infectious disease that has been documented in other minke whales. There was no food within the whale’s GI tract. While a definitive cause of death was not determined, it is just as important to rule out other causes of death, as our team was able to do by ruling out vessel strike and infectious disease as potential causes of death."
It's a real head scratcher, right? Gee, what new variable has been introduced into the marine environment that could cause all of these strandings and deaths?
They don't know but they are 100% certain it's not offshore wind work. Work which they know is permitted by NOAA to harm marine mammals.
I'm sure there are many dedicated scientists and conservationists working at the AMCS but their refusal to consider offshore wind work as a primary or secondary cause of death is ridiculous at this point.
Its not difficult to see the corruption/Conflicts of Interest happening with AMSEAS. Several of their Board Seats are Offshore Wind.
Just need to keep pounding the message across so low-information people realize what is happening. My question is where are the journalists? This is easily the largest corruption scandal in our regions history, and not a peep.
Last edited by DannyHobkins; Yesterday at 10:02 AM..
Just need to keep pounding the message across so low-information people realize what is happening. My question is where are the journalists? This is easily the largest corruption scandal in our regions history, and not a peep.
That is an interesting line up. Several of them are in industries adjacent to renewables/infrastructure/government that may be positioned to make money from the OSW projects. Not to be left out, offshore wind developer Equinor has a seat at the table.
This the type of group profile you would want in an OSW/renewables advocacy group.
There are billions of dollars at stake, government subsides to pocket, political careers to sustain and profit from, and greasy corporate poles to climb.
"A deceased Humpback Whale was towed earlier this afternoon from an unknown location to the sandbar just north of a fishing beach in Sandy Hook. Authorities had it roped off for about 100 ft. They had a grave already dug at the time. Marine Mammal Stranding Center arrived on the scene, necropsied, and buried the whale."
Photos attached.
Let's review the litany of official excuses we've heard to explain the sudden multi species die offs which happen to coincide with the presence of off shore wind work:
Ship strikes, whales are feeding too close to shore, increased shipping, warming waters, increased number of whales, ship speeds.
Everything but offshore wind construction.
When these projects are done the entire NJ shoreline will be fenced in with gigantic turbines that will do nothing to reduce global warming.
What a sad farce.
There have been 9 whale deaths over the last 7 days on the East Coast in the vicinity of offshore wind work. See attached map. White points are dead whales, colored areas and outlines are offshore wind leases areas.
"A deceased Humpback Whale was towed earlier this afternoon from an unknown location to the sandbar just north of a fishing beach in Sandy Hook. Authorities had it roped off for about 100 ft. They had a grave already dug at the time. Marine Mammal Stranding Center arrived on the scene, necropsied, and buried the whale."
Photos attached.
Let's review the litany of official excuses we've heard to explain the sudden multi species die offs which happen to coincide with the presence of off shore wind work:
Ship strikes, whales are feeding too close to shore, increased shipping, warming waters, increased number of whales, ship speeds.
Everything but offshore wind construction.
When these projects are done the entire NJ shoreline will be fenced in with gigantic turbines that will do nothing to reduce global warming.
What a sad farce.
There have been 9 whale deaths over the last 7 days on the East Coast in the vicinity of offshore wind work. See attached map. White points are dead whales, colored areas and outlines are offshore wind leases areas.
I thought it was strange that they covertly tried to bury the whale. From what i've read, someone got word of this happening and drove there to take a photo. We might have never known that this even happened if not for that.
Dead whales conflict with the notion that OSW is environmentally cost free.
The dead bodies cast reasonable doubt on the carefully crafted propaganda that the state, feds and compromised environmental groups regurgitate whenever concerns about OSW are raised.
During the spate of whale deaths last year, one of the pro wind NJ politicians, I don't remember which, was quoted as saying that dead whales were like "kryptonite" to off shore wind projects.
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