Exactly right @JunkScience
The answer isn’t complicated. More regulations won’t solve the challenges facing the endangered North Atlantic right whale.
Fishing has been part of the fabric of our seafaring nation for centuries. Yet increasingly burdensome regulations are driving hardworking fishing families out of business, while failing to stop right whale deaths.
At the same time, industrial offshore wind development along the Outer Continental Shelf has coincided with an increase in “unusual mortality events” involving several cetacean species.
It’s unusual, but not surprising.
Highly intelligent whales have evolved to avoid ship strikes and fishing gear. They also adjust their feeding and breeding patterns in response to changing prey availability and environmental conditions. Just as people relocate in search of a better quality of life, whales and dolphins shift their ranges as conditions change. As NOAA Fisheries acknowledged in 2021, “Construction and operation of hundreds of wind turbines is likely to introduce increased ocean noise, vessel traffic, and possibly habitat alteration. All of these factors have the potential to affect right whales.”
Unfortunately, offshore wind leases and permits have relied on cetacean distribution models that can be years out of date by the time construction begins. Models developed by Duke University are widely regarded as a leading standard for predicting cetacean distribution, yet the data used for leasing and permitting may be nearly a decade old when projects are finally built. As one NOAA marine biologist told us, “The models are obsolete by the time offshore wind construction begins.”
When will common sense prevail?
https://t.co/YlDtwjXgZg
If you can't stand up for Shiloh Hendrix, you're worthless. It means someone is stuck in the "respectability" social construct. Look at how many who claim to be "real MAGA" are silent. Too afraid to say anything, even though the prosecution is clearly unconstitutional.
I’ll soon be sponsoring a bill to withhold federal money from municipalities and police departments that deploy Flock (and other style) cameras to surveil law abiding citizens.
But wait, @audubonsociety which is supposed to care about birds, says kittens that kill more birds than windmills. 🤔
Wyoming Wind Turbines Killed More Than 23,000 Birds And Bats Last Year
Turbine blades also killed 9,152 small birds, such as meadowlarks, and 13,423 bats, Schultz said.
https://t.co/U7FPtaN76m
These people approving these destructive projects should be jailed along with those freaks who sent in the gigantic Canadian grey wolves to devour all the baby cows, too. Then, they should cull the disease carrying 🦌 in New England to save the moose. What kind of land management is really going on out there?
Say it louder for the NPP voters - @XavierBecerra wants illegals and non-California residents to vote in California.
He’s now attacking the idea of showing an ID before you get to vote.
Total corruption!
Seems like there were several full time employees at NIH who did nothing but facilitate these award nominations. It's Soviet-level corruption, completely grotesque.
Shiloh Hendrix was not charged for saying “nigger.”
If that word itself was illegal, the entire black population should be in court, for using it day-in and day-out.
She was charged, in violation of her First Amendment rights, for being white while saying it.
This is racism.
THREE MORE: Subcontractors file nearly $900K in unpaid claims against the Obama Presidential Center — this time tied to Home Court, the facility's 60,000-square-foot basketball venue currently hosting WNBA All-Star Weekend events.
The claims cover structural steel, excavation and concrete, and gymnasium flooring work.
The disputes add to a growing list of payment battles on a project whose cost ballooned from an estimated $350 million to more than $1 billion.
By Michael Dorgan/@M_Dorgan