New Jersey officials approved two contracts for offshore wind farms (stock), which a resident told DailyMail.com are the most expensive contracts signed by the states Board of Public Utilities.
BP and Equinor paused the Empire Wind 2 project that would have covered over 80,000 acres of the open sea in New York. The reset follows claims that the green energy is killing dozens of whales.
How a Tiny New Jersey County United to Defeat Giant Ocean Wind Turbines theepochtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theepochtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
New Jersey residents, lawmakers and a former SNL star are fighting against off-shore wind along the east coast, claiming the sonar blasting is behind dozens of whales in the past year.
In May, Robert Rand, a leading echo sound expert, detected high-decibel sonar approximately 43 nautical miles east of Barnegat Light that did not match the equipment cited in the incidental take permit, prompting a comprehensive look at additional expired and active IHAs, Linowes said. Those reviews “revealed a regular pattern of NMFS accepting Level B harassment distances that are well under those expected. .Inadequate mitigations during a sonar survey could result in marine mammals experiencing sound levels that may injure or kill. The record suggests that NMFS has not conducted independent monitoring of the active sonar surveys in the field.”