It’s time I started this list and began to add to it. If you care for the environment and wildlife, do not give money to these NGOs and charities: Greenpiss Our climate is in crisis. Scientists are shouting an urgent warning: we have little more than a decade to take bold, ambitious action to transition our economy off of coal, oil, and gas, and onto safe and green renewable energy. Shifting to cleaner, locally-run energy will not only slow the tide of climate catastrophe, it’ll create millions of new jobs that sustain families while protecting community health.
Bear in mind that, from a British perspective, before the 'climate change' issue got added, renewables were always primarily an energy resource issue. From my WordPress (not yet Substacked):
I haven't mentioned whales in that article but I have wondered for a while whether the presence of so many new structures located a mile of so offshore could affect their genetic memory of where the coast is, though intuitively it should lead to them moving further offshore rather than getting beached.
The main threat to whales is acoustic surveying of wind farm sites - and NOAA is well aware of this.
NOAA KNOWS that acoustic underwater activity can not only ‘harass’ marine life (cause disturbance and injury) but also ‘take’ (i.e. kill) marine mammals, including whales. They admit it, in writing:
“The NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources authorizes the incidental take of marine mammals under the MMPA to U.S. citizens and U.S.-based entities, if we find that the taking would:
Be of small numbers;
Have no more than a “negligible impact” on those marine mammal species or stocks; and
Not have an “unmitigable adverse impact” on the availability of the species or stock for subsistence uses.
Further, we must prescribe the permissible methods of taking and other means of effecting the least practicable adverse impact on the affected species or stocks and their habitat (i.e., mitigation), paying particular attention to rookeries, mating grounds, and areas of similar significance, and on the availability of such species or stocks for taking for certain subsistence uses; and requirements pertaining to the monitoring and reporting of such takings.
Most incidental take authorizations have been issued for activities that produce underwater sound.”
NOAA is currently processing ‘take’ applications from wind companies. This particular ‘take’ application includes 12 Humpback and Minke whales.
“Park City Wind, LLC Construction of the New England Wind Offshore Wind Farm Project off of Massachusetts
Status Public Comment Issued Date Effective Dates
In Process Closed — —
Summary: NOAA Fisheries has received a request from Park City Wind, LLC for Incidental Take Regulations and an associated Letter of Authorization. The requested regulations would govern the authorization of take, by Level A harassment and/or Level B harassment, of small numbers of marine mammals over the course of 5 years (2025-2030) incidental to construction of the New England Wind Project. Park City Wind proposes to develop the New England Wind Project in two phases, known as Park City Wind (Phase 1) and Commonwealth Wind (Phase 2). Project activities that may result in incidental take include pile driving (impact and vibratory), drilling, unexploded ordnance or munitions and explosives of concern detonation, and vessel-based site assessment surveys using high-resolution geophysical equipment. If adopted, the proposed regulations would be effective March 27, 2025, through March 26, 2030.”
OK, thanks. Do you have any information relating to the UK? This from four years ago makes no mention of wind farms or the acoustic surveying of sites for them. As it's the BBC it probably wouldn't.
Incidentally, on my WordPress blog post I've spoon fed you with some information that you might be interested in, together with a photo of an offshore windfarm near Great Yarmouth.
Bear in mind that, from a British perspective, before the 'climate change' issue got added, renewables were always primarily an energy resource issue. From my WordPress (not yet Substacked):
https://warwickvegan.wordpress.com/2023/03/15/energy-crisis/
I haven't mentioned whales in that article but I have wondered for a while whether the presence of so many new structures located a mile of so offshore could affect their genetic memory of where the coast is, though intuitively it should lead to them moving further offshore rather than getting beached.
The main threat to whales is acoustic surveying of wind farm sites - and NOAA is well aware of this.
NOAA KNOWS that acoustic underwater activity can not only ‘harass’ marine life (cause disturbance and injury) but also ‘take’ (i.e. kill) marine mammals, including whales. They admit it, in writing:
“The NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources authorizes the incidental take of marine mammals under the MMPA to U.S. citizens and U.S.-based entities, if we find that the taking would:
Be of small numbers;
Have no more than a “negligible impact” on those marine mammal species or stocks; and
Not have an “unmitigable adverse impact” on the availability of the species or stock for subsistence uses.
Further, we must prescribe the permissible methods of taking and other means of effecting the least practicable adverse impact on the affected species or stocks and their habitat (i.e., mitigation), paying particular attention to rookeries, mating grounds, and areas of similar significance, and on the availability of such species or stocks for taking for certain subsistence uses; and requirements pertaining to the monitoring and reporting of such takings.
Most incidental take authorizations have been issued for activities that produce underwater sound.”
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/permit/incidental-take-authorizations-under-marine-mammal-protection-act
NOAA is currently processing ‘take’ applications from wind companies. This particular ‘take’ application includes 12 Humpback and Minke whales.
“Park City Wind, LLC Construction of the New England Wind Offshore Wind Farm Project off of Massachusetts
Status Public Comment Issued Date Effective Dates
In Process Closed — —
Summary: NOAA Fisheries has received a request from Park City Wind, LLC for Incidental Take Regulations and an associated Letter of Authorization. The requested regulations would govern the authorization of take, by Level A harassment and/or Level B harassment, of small numbers of marine mammals over the course of 5 years (2025-2030) incidental to construction of the New England Wind Project. Park City Wind proposes to develop the New England Wind Project in two phases, known as Park City Wind (Phase 1) and Commonwealth Wind (Phase 2). Project activities that may result in incidental take include pile driving (impact and vibratory), drilling, unexploded ordnance or munitions and explosives of concern detonation, and vessel-based site assessment surveys using high-resolution geophysical equipment. If adopted, the proposed regulations would be effective March 27, 2025, through March 26, 2030.”
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-mammal-protection/incidental-take-authorizations-other-energy-activities-renewable
OK, thanks. Do you have any information relating to the UK? This from four years ago makes no mention of wind farms or the acoustic surveying of sites for them. As it's the BBC it probably wouldn't.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49596734
Incidentally, on my WordPress blog post I've spoon fed you with some information that you might be interested in, together with a photo of an offshore windfarm near Great Yarmouth.
Thanks for a good starter list of frauds....
In the USA we also have the Red Cross and the United Way as peak scammers....