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Comment by Willem Post on November 15, 2024 at 10:45am

Shocking Rise In Whale, Dolphin, & Porpoise Strandings As Wind Monsters Proliferate Around UK Coast

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/shocking-rise-in-whale...

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WEDNESDAY, OCT 30, 2024

Authored by Chris Morrison via DailySceptic.org,

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Over the last decade, as highly subsidized, offshore wind monsters proliferated around the U.K., there has been a disturbing rise in coastline strandings of whales, dolphins and porpoises.

Since about 2000, strandings have more than doubled and are now running at over 1,000 animals a year.

The slaughter has been largely ignored by the shilling mainstream media that incessantly spouts the agreed narrative, offshore wind is environmentally friendly and is the key to achieving Net Zero by 2050, which, in fact, is total bullshit, if CO2 emissions are counted from mine to hazardous landfill,

plus the CO2 emissions of extra grid enlargements and reinforcements,

plus the CO2 emissions of counteracting TRADITIONAL fossil power plants to offset the ups and downs, and frequent lack of wind, on a less than minute by minute basis, 24/7/365.

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In fact, wind turbines, whether on or off the shore, are a clear danger to many endangered species. .

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Concerns are mounting about their widespread and harmful effects on the natural world.

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Years ago, the great cause in environmentalism was to save the whales, but these concerns seem to have abated, while the slaughter of millions of onshore bats, along with the destruction of many types of large raptors, is simply ignored.

Andrew Montford of Net Zero Watch has updated his graph on the stranding of U.K. cetaceans and compared it to the rise of offshore wind capacity.

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Both totals have soared in recent years.

Is there a causal link?

Perhaps not one that would inconvenience Net Zero fanatics, but Montford says the suggestion of a causal relationship “remains very strong”.

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The Daily Sceptic has reported in the past about the mounting casualties of whales stranded off the north eastern coast of the United States in the wake of massive offshore windfarm construction.

There have been around 300 fatalities in the last five years, and many suggest the extensive sonar soundings, pile driving and heavy concentrated vessel traffic is causing havoc with aquatic feeding, breeding and migration up and down the coast.

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The latest U.K. stranding figures have been reported to Ascobans, a UN environmental conservation body for cetaceans in the NE Atlantic.

Commenting on the “shocking” figures, the environmental writer and campaigner Jason Endfield called them “a wake-up call to those planning to further industrialize our seas in the name of renewable energy, and especially offshore wind farms”.

In his view, it made no sense to increase ocean noise to levels that are “literally killing marine mammals”.

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The great cover-up of this environmental disaster continues with massive industrial parks being erected around the coasts of many countries.

In the U.K., the incoming Labour government is committed to a massive expansion with the Mad Miliband spraying around billions of pounds in additional subsidies to boost an industry that would not exist in a free market.

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To the fore in blowing smoke over the issue is Greenpeace USA’s senior oceans campaigner Arlo Hemphill who claims there is “no evidence whatsoever” connecting wind turbines to whale deaths.

“It’s just a cynical disinformation campaign,” says another Greenpeace spokesman.

The mainstream media, likes drones, echo this narrative, as shown by recent tweets from Agence France-Presse reporter Manon Jacob.

He dismissed the focus on wind farms as a red herring “when offshore wind remains thus far marginal in the U.S. and scientific evidence of large marine mammal deaths is lacking”.

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This is the same Jacob who wrote a recent ‘fact check’ of the Daily Sceptic that was so bad and misleading it should feature in future journalism schools as an example of how not to criticize well-sourced material.

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The investigative science journalist Jo Nova has a different take on the matter:

“Researchers have known since at least 2013 that pile drivers were permanently deafening porpoises, leaving them presumably to die miserable deaths wandering blindly through dark or murky seas.

Where were all the professors of marine science, paid by the public to know these things, and where was the BBC?”

She continued:

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Fifty years ago, environmentalists would have raised hell about a thousand dead whales and dolphins.

Now they are part of the cover-up.

“They don’t want to draw attention to the blubber on the beach in case people start asking hard questions,” she observed.

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There are however some signs that the ‘nothing to see here, guv’ wall is starting to crack.

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A recent essay in Watts Up With That? suggested that an impact statement from the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) had finally acknowledged the harm caused by offshore wind farms.

Examining leases off the New Jersey and New York coast covering over 488,000 acres, BOEM hints that these developments are not entirely benign “despite being repeatedly framed as environmentally friendly solutions to the climate crisis”.

Marine mammals, sea turtles, birds and fish suffer due to noise, habitat displacement and changes in migration patterns, it is said.

Even bats, says WUWT?, which are not typically associated with offshore environments, could be affected.

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The essay noted that this latest BOEM work may signal a more cautious approach, “perhaps influenced by increasing legal challenges, public backlash, and even emerging scientific research indicating that wind turbines are not as harmless as once believed”, PLUS TRUMP WILL CLEAN HOUSE IN 2025

Comment by Willem Post on November 15, 2024 at 10:20am

Frank,

I am an energy systems analyst with MSME and MBA, PE license, about 40 years of experience

Federal and state incentives, together, are at least 50% of levelelized cost

That enables an Owner to sell at 15 c/kWh, instead of at 30 c/kWh.

We get screwed two ways

Pay for the 15 c/kWh electricity

Pay for the 15 c/kWh to defray project expenses of Owner, usually added to the national debt

Warren Buffett: Without the subsidies, the wind projects do not make sense.

We also get screwed in 5 more ways:

– paying for grid reinforcement and extension
– paying for traditional plants counteracting wind/solar variable output, on a less than minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365
– paying for traditional plants providing electricity during low-wind (and during high-wind periods, when rotors are locked in place), and during low solar conditions
- paying owners of wind and solar systems for the electricity they COULD have produced, if not curtailed
– paying for expensive hazardous waste landfill of gigantic rotor blades, etc.

Why do you think Germany and the UK have become economic basket cases?