Whales and Vessels – Offshore Wind Farm Prep Not Cause of Deaths

Right Whales and offshore wind farm preparation news
Right Whale Breaching. Photo NOAA.

Environmental and fishing groups said Tuesday there is “no evidence” that site preparation work for offshore wind farms in New Jersey and New York is responsible for a spate of whale deaths in the two states.

Anjuli Ramos-Buscot, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club chapter in Atlantic City, N.J. Photo AP/ Wayne Perry.

Anjuli Ramos-Buscot, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club chapter in Atlantic City N.J. January 17, 2023 with environmental groups in support of the offshore wind farm project as misinformation about the safety of whales is being compromised and to blame for the deaths of two Right whales in the past month.

“Many of New Jersey’s leading environmental groups held a press conference on the Atlantic City Boardwalk — directly in front of the local office of an offshore wind company — to support the industry, and decry what they term a false narrative that the industry’s testing activities are harming or killing whales.”

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