Just released: findings from a 2+ year study of potential negative impact of offshore wind turbines.
Experimental, wind farms could be harming a declining whale population, commercial fisheries and other coastal marine life along the Jersey Shore.
All participants in this report agree, more research is needed. The report is co-authored by:
- NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- BOEM, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
- Responsible Offshore Development Alliance.
Offshore wind project could alter marine environment: wind turbine project noise, vibration, electromagnetic fields, heat transfer, thermal radiation from cables, secondary gear entanglement.
Sounds from pile-driving during construction “can be severe, resulting in mortality or injury of hearing tissues.” Noise levels from ongoing operation of the turbines once constructed “are not associated with direct physical injury, (but) long-term exposures may have negative effects on communication, foraging, and predator detection.”
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Since December, 30 whales have washed ashore.
Offshore wind turbines, some as close as 8 miles offshore, can attract fish but can scare them off too.
Potential negative impacts of wind turbines on fish and marine mammals
“We continue to explore how sound, vessel, other human activities in marine environment impact whales and other marine mammals”.
These industrial wind grids are being leased right in the middle of some of the Atlantic’s most sensitive environments, historic fishing grounds, and existing maritime transit lanes.
— Congressman Jeff Van Drew (@Congressman_JVD) March 23, 2023
Wind co's and this admin have ignored nearly every attempt at input from these stakeholders.
In order to lay transmission cables, wind companies will have to dredge HUNDREDS of miles of sea floor. Existing BOEM EIS’s claim this dredging will have the same environmental impact as doing nothing at all.
Congressman Van Drew
‘I can see industry disappearing’: US fishermen sound alarm at plans for offshore wind
Fishermen say their concerns, from safety issues to how offshore wind will alter the ocean environment, aren’t being meaningfully considered by regulators
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So the wind farms off the Hamptons on Long Island, should be up and running by the end of the year? What will happen? Will we destroy all marine life offshore? Someone needs to tap the brakes big time and finish these marine life studies. Right now this is just being shoved politically down peoples throats. Can’t get our oceans back can we? Never what happened to groups like Greenpeace? Well, we all know. They went political. So sad.