The wind industry is killing whales, and the Biden administration and their media allies appear to be doing everything in their power to keep this truth hidden, according to dissident environmental activist Michael Shellenberger.
In an eye-opening thread posted Wednesday, Shellenberger revealed that the “deaths of whales have spiked since 2017.”
The latest death occurred this week when a whale named “Faith” was found deceased right next to a wind turbine base:
The govt says the wind industry isn’t killing whales, but it is. Here’s the proof: another dead one, nicknamed “Faith.” They found her yesterday at the @Orsted Southfork Wind site (#517), Rhode Island, right next to the (yellow) turbine base. 71st whale killed since last Dec pic.twitter.com/TeMAUisAsL
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) September 6, 2023
This is the biggest environmental scandal in the world.
At this rate, the US government and the wind industry are going to make the North Atlantic right whale extinct.
The government has corrupted and/or covered up the science.
Congress must investigate immediately.
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) September 6, 2023
Unfortunately, you’re not likely to read anything about Faith or any other deceased whale from the mainstream press, which not surprisingly has chosen to echo the Biden regime’s talking points to a T.
Case in point:Â “Whales have been dying at an unusual rate along the Atlantic Coast since 2016. … Federal agencies and experts say there is no link to offshore wind activities,” a supposed “fact-check” from FactCheck.org reads.
The “fact-check” reads similarly to what the Biden Department of Energy (DoE) claims: “As of now, there is no evidence to support speculation that noise resulting from wind development-related site characterization surveys could potentially cause mortality of whales, and no specific links between recent large whale mortalities and currently ongoing surveys.”
But Shellenberger says this is a blatant lie.
“The people who claimed the wind industry wasn’t killing whales were lying, and we caught them. It’s all in this documentary. And the research behind it is about to explode into view in a big way. Everyone involved in this scandal will be exposed,” he tweeted.
A trailer for the documentary he mentioned may be seen below:
For years, the government has insisted that the increase in whale deaths off the East Coast has no relationship to the wind industry’s high-decibel pile driving and boat activity. But now, a new documentary, “Thrown To The Wind,” based on new research, will challenge that. pic.twitter.com/Iu7mxH0BaI
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) August 12, 2023
Shellenberger also slammed some so-called “journalists” for accepting money from the wind industry and then writing puff pieces defending said industry.
“For years, reporters said the wind industry wasn’t killing whales. They were wrong. Part of the reason is because reporters are lazy. Another part is they’re ideological. But another is that taxpayer-funded wind corporations gave millions in ‘partnership’ money to their employers,” he explained in his X/Twitter thread.
Shellenberger isn’t the only one raising a ruckus about this matter. So is every member of the Rhode Island Fisherman’s Advisory Board. All nine members resigned on Friday to protest the Biden-backed offshore wind farms being built along Rhode Island’s coast.
“The project falls under President Biden‘s executive order authorizing his Interior Department to double US offshore wind capacity by 2030. With the project’s approval, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is on track to finish reviews for 16 wind farms by 2025. But foes including the fishing board say the Sunrise plan ignores environmental regulations and anglers’ concerns,” according to the New York Post.
Indeed, in a letter sent on Friday to the state’s Coastal Resources Management Council (which approved the project two years ago), the fishermen slammed the regulatory process for becoming politicized and said they want nothing to do with these projects anymore.
“We as members of the FAB thought that the purpose of FAB/CRMC review was to ensure that offshore wind projects conformed to the requirements and restrictions of the Ocean SAMP. We were wrong. The Ocean SAMP process has been reduced to mere political theater, to which we refuse to lend any further credence by our presence,” they wrote.
“We will not allow our names to be connected in any way to Council approvals now amounting to wholesale ocean destruction. Rhode Island is supposed to be the Ocean State, not the Windmill State,” they added.
When the environment is sacrificed on the altar of unsustainable power, due to the power of the environmental lobby.@GeraldKutney https://t.co/Dtydu0Nst5
— Dennis Wingo (@wingod) September 2, 2023
The fishermen also accused the CRMC of “advanc[ing] a policy agenda of offshore wind development above all else,” including the safety and well-being of whales, among other marine life.
All this comes amid a decline in the wind industry as it faces declining enthusiasm and mounting losses.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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