Midwest Chick's Place

It might be that windmill farms are starting to die.  The greenies are starting to win, or at least are getting heard.  And in this, I agree with them.  I can sense your shocked faces through the screen.

However:

Save LBI, a nonpartisan, grassroots ocean and marine conservation group, filed a lawsuit Wednesday calling for NOAA to reverse all Incidental Take Authorizations (ITAs) and for all vessel surveys to be stopped until an investigation into the potential links between offshore winds and recent whale strandings can be conducted. Since December 2022, over 20 whales have washed up along the New York and New Jersey shores near survey sites for future offshore wind projects as part of an unusual mortality event, according to NOAA.

Save LBI claimed the agency violated the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) by not considering the impact of vessel noise on whales’ hearing when approving offshore wind survey sites that have led to whale strandings in New Jersey and New York. 

And on the other coast:

 The West Coast Seafood Processors Association, the Midwater Trawlers Cooperative and the Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission claim their concerns about proposed offshore wind project call areas, areas where the agency is seeking public comment, and their impact on key fish populations due to the turbines’ electromagnetic field (EMF) cables, have been ignored by BOEM. They also worry about the impact offshore winds would have on their businesses and the entire state’s economy.

“BOEM has told us that if Oregon doesn’t want this, they will back off and pursue other offshore wind areas, and we’ve made it pretty clear to them that Oregon doesn’t want this, and they’re still pushing forward,” Lori Steele, executive director of the seafood trade group West Coast Seafood Processors Association, told the DCNF. “They are giving us nothing but lip service,” she added.

In Australia, they were going to put up a giant windfarm.  Even Tim Cook and Apple joined in the fun. But then the company’s own report showed (please click on the link for a great breakdown):

 …In January, Windlab’s own draft Public Environment Report contained some indigestible truths about the potential ecological effects of the Upper Burdekin project, including its “unavoidable significant residual impact to Sharman’s rockwallaby, koala, greater glider and red goshawk…”

The red goshawk is Australia’s rarest bird of prey. The koala was also listed as an endangered species in February 2022.

…The draft report also found that the 746 hectares of koala habitat being removed for the wind farm “is considered habitat critical to the survival of the species.”

And there was this headline:

So Apple took it on the lam, double-time.  They canceled their contract for power from the windfarm straight away.

And in New Hampshire  public funding/subsidies for these wildlife killing machines is foundering (in MA also).

NOAA admits that the windfarms in NJ will kill marine wildlife while functioning, but only some of them, even the endangered ones, so that’s okay as far as they are concerned. It’s just the construction and dismantling that won’t.  Pretty sure the dismantling wouldn’t be a problem because the wildlife will all be dead.

 Windmill farms are abominations.  And they aren’t the free and clean energy that the rose-colored glasses crowd persists in seeing.

The animal and insect kills are completely ignored in the face of an agenda that is doomed to fail.  Hopefully that tide is turning.