Do they think we're idiots!

Pew, Good Shepard and all those other "environmental" groups are conspicuously absent during all this.

Maybe ramming a Japanese vessel in international waters is easier than taking on big American corporation!!!!

Where are they? They would be a great help in this case. Maybe it needs to be made into a reality show

I remember a few years ago a show on TV called Whale Wars, & a well funded group Sea Shepherd, the group used, sometimes, questionable methods to end the killing of whales in the southern ocean. Their web site is active, & says they are dedicated to protection of sea life.

Smith's bill would require immediate, comprehensive investigation into the environmental approval process for offshore wind projects. According to the New Jersey lawmaker, Biden administration officials have ignored his calls for an investigation into the matter and for a moratorium on offshore wind development until the cause of the whale deaths was conclusively determined.

"Nine dead whales have washed up on our beaches since early December, and we still have no meaningful answers from Governor Murphy or the Biden Administration on the broader impact of these projects on the marine environment as they rush to build the largest offshore wind farm in the nation," Smith said in a statement.

They ain't putting the brakes on this for a few dead whales that, in their mind, are going to die anyway if the planet warms up a half a degree:

This article explains the effects of sonar on whales and dolphins. This says it all.

Another one this AM!!!!

Dead whale found in the Rockaways: officials​

By Spectrum News Staff Queens
PUBLISHED 4:10 PM ET Feb. 17, 2023

A whale was found dead on Rockaway Beach Friday morning, marking the fifth time a large whale has stranded in New York in less than three months, officials said.

The whale was discovered on the shoreline at Beach 29th Street around 9 a.m., a spokesperson for the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation said.

The creature was about 15 to 20 feet long and had “several wounds across its body,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a statement.

The parks department said it is working in concert with NOAA, the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society and the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation on “a plan for examination and disposal.”

“Biologists are making plans to examine the animal this afternoon as tides allow,” NOAA said in its statement. “Biologists will confirm its length and species, and document all visible injuries during their examination.”

Twenty-three large whales have stranded on the east coast since Dec. 1, including five in New York, according to NOAA.

One of those whales, a 30-foot sperm whale, was found dead on Rockaway Beach in mid-December, officials said.

Another juvenile whale found dead washed up on Beach 29th Street in Rockaway Beach, NY. They're clamming it was a vessel strike but it sure looks post mordom to me. Have we ever witnessed anything like this? All of the magicians creatures washing ashore dead?

This has to change. Once we get the weather we need to go out in force and stop this this. This is the first time I can recall that we have the commercial fishery, the sportfishing industry and the recreational angler on the same side. These are our oceans and we can't just sit back and allow it to happen.

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Another juvenile whale found dead washed up on Beach 29th Street in Rockaway Beach, NY. They're clamming it was a vessel strike but it sure looks post mordom to me. Have we ever witnessed anything like this? All of the magicians creatures washing ashore dead?

This has to change. Once we get the weather we need to go out in force and stop this this. This is the first time I can recall that we have the commercial fishery, the sportfishing industry and the recreational angler on the same side. These are our oceans and we can't just sit back and allow it to happen.

Sure does look like it was cut up and if it was hit by a vessel how the hell did it stay intact and wash up on the beach

This is what was found when blasting was used for oil discovery.

“A review of the impacts of seismic airgun surveys on marine life.” Submitted to the CBD
A Review of the Impacts of Seismic Airgun Surveys on Marine Life


Noise from a single seismic airgun survey, used to discover oil and gas deposits hundreds of kilometers under the sea floor, can blanket an area of over 300,000 km2, raising background noise levels 100-fold (20 dB), continuously for weeks or months (IWC 2005, IWC 2007). Seismic airgun surveys are loud enough to penetrate hundreds of kilometers into the ocean floor, even after going through thousands of meters of ocean. Since this exposes large portions of a cetacean population to chronic noise, the International Whaling Commission’s Scientific Committee noted “...repeated and persistent acoustic insults [over] a large area...should be considered enough to cause population level impacts.” (IWC 2005). A recent report by the Convention on Biological Diversity noted that “...there are increasing concerns about the long-term and cumulative effects of noise on marine biodiversity...” and “...there is a need to...take measures [to] minimise our noise impacts on marine biodiversity...” and “...effective management of anthropogenic noise in the marine environment should be regarded as a high priority for action at the national and regional level...” (CBD 2012).

Get ready @Roccus7 wind power is headed to the once beautiful Gulf of Maine.

Get ready @Roccus7 wind power is headed to the once beautiful Gulf of Maine.

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We've been under siege for a while already. What I find humorous, is the fact that the BOEM didn't have a clue and never contacted the DOD for this map. Maine is trying to put up an experimental farm of 20 floating windmills*** and their map had HUGE exclusion areas requested by the DOD, does the thought of submarine navigation lanes ring any bells???

***- GOM is way too deep for windmills that are bottom-fixed that the rest of the coast is being fitted out with. So far, all plans by the state call for floaters. Of course, we're fiendishly waiting for one to get erected and then blown over or breaks free during a "wicked bad" Nor'easter. The other biatch is that because they'll have multiple anchors/mooring cables and wires hanging down, we're probably not going to be able to fish very close to them, lest we hang up like crazy. The biggest irony is the Feds complaining about lobster gear entangling whales, but they seem to think that's not going to be a problem with whales. Talk about a "Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead" attitude at DOE and the Administration from an environmental perspective for this, but not for fishermen??

Now that gives me an absolutely brilliant idea. Drill for oil in between the pillars of every one of these bird killing windmills simultaneously so that the whales aren't killed twice by the coincidental pillar pounding and sonic airblasting techniques, leading to disorientation and eventually getting struck by a ship. Just send me a check for the patent.

And all we hear are crickets from our elected officials. Full speed ahead with the green agenda. Whales, birds, fishermen be damned.

This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are lying pieces of crap. They are all aware that they're killing these mammals, in fact they've given the green light to kill them. Now we know without a doubt, that they don't care about these whales.

I realize this a lot, but you need to look at all of these permit request to kill whales. It is enormous. It's shocking to me that they will allow this. There is another document showing how many whales they're willing to kill. Again all in the name of green energy. I had to break this into two parts.​

MARINE MAMMAL PROTECTION

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Authorizations In Process​

The following Authorizations are in process:
<h4>Sunrise Wind, LLC Construction and Operation of the Sunrise Wind Offshore Wind Farm off of New York​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has received a request from Sunrise Wind, LLC, a 50/50 joint venture between Ørsted North America, Inc. and Eversource Investment, 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 (2023-2028) incidental to construction of the Sunrise Wind Offshore Wind Farm Project offshore of New York in a designated lease area on the Outer Continental Shelf. Project activities likely to result in incidental take include pile driving, potential unexploded ordnance or munitions and explosives of concern detonation, and vessel-based site assessment surveys using high-resolution geophysical equipment.

• Related Documents

<h4>Revolution Wind, LLC Construction of the Revolution Wind Energy Facility off of Rhode Island​</h4>Summary: On December 23, 2022, NOAA Fisheries published a proposed rule, with a 30-day public comment period ending January 23, 2023, in response to Revolution Wind, LLC’s request for regulations and an associated Letter of Authorization. The proposed regulations would allow for the taking of marine mammals, by Level A harassment and Level B harassment, incidental to the Revolution Wind Offshore Wind Farm Project offshore of Rhode Island.

• Related Documents

<h4>Bluepoint Wind, LLC Marine Site Characterization Surveys off of New York and New Jersey in the New York Bight​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has received a request from Bluepoint Wind, LLC for authorization to take marine mammals incidental to marine site characterization surveys in coastal waters off of New York and New Jersey in the New York Bight, specifically within the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Commercial Lease of Submerged Lands for Renewable Energy Development on the Outer Continental Shelf Lease Area OCS-A 0537 and associated export cable route area.

• Related Documents

<h4>TerraSond Limited Marine Site Characterization Surveys in the Carolina Long Bay Call Area​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has received a request from TerraSond Limited for authorization to take marine mammals incidental to marine site characterization surveys in federal waters offshore of North Carolina and South Carolina in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Commercial Lease of Submerged Lands for Renewable Energy Development on the Outer Continental Shelf Areas OCS-A 0545 and OCS-A 0546.

• Related Documents

<h4>TerraSond Limited Marine Site Characterization Surveys in the New York Bight and Central Atlantic Call Area​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has received a request from TerraSond Limited for authorization to take marine mammals incidental to marine site characterization surveys in the New York Bight (off of New York and New Jersey) and in the Central Atlantic (from Delaware to North Carolina).

• Related Documents

<h4>Ocean Wind, LLC Construction of the Ocean Wind 1 Wind Energy Facility off of New Jersey​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has received a request for Incidental Take Regulations (ITR) and associated Letter of Authorization (LOA) from Ocean Wind, LLC (Ocean Wind), a subsidiary of Orsted Wind Power North America, LLC and a joint venture partner of the Public Service Enterprise Group Renewable Generation, LLC, for the incidental take of small numbers of marine mammals during the construction of an offshore wind energy facility (Ocean Wind 1) in a designated lease area on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS-A-0498) offshore of New Jersey. The requested ITR would govern the authorization of take, by both Level A and Level B harassment, of small numbers of marine mammals over a 5-year period incidental to construction-related pile driving activities (impact and vibratory), potential unexploded ordnances or munitions and explosives of concern detonation, and high-resolution geophysical (HRG) site characterization surveys conducted by Ocean Wind in Federal and State waters off of New Jersey for the Ocean Wind 1 offshore wind energy facility. A final ITR would allow for the issuance of a LOA to Ocean Wind for a 5-year period.

• Related Documents

<h4>Mayflower Wind, LLC Construction of the Mayflower Wind Offshore Wind Project​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has received a petition from Mayflower Wind, LLC (Mayflower Wind), a 50/50 joint venture between Shell New Energies US, LLC (Shell New Energies) and OW North America, LLC (Ocean Winds), requesting authorization to take small numbers of marine mammals incidental to the Mayflower Wind Offshore Wind Project in a designated lease area on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)-A-0521 offshore Massachusetts, over the course of 5 years beginning in 2025. NOAA Fisheries is announcing receipt of Mayflower Wind’s request for the development and implementation of regulations governing the incidental taking of marine mammals and issuance of a Letter of Authorization.

• Related Documents

<h4>Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, LLC Construction of the Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Energy Projects​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has received a request from Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, LLC for authorization to take small numbers of marine mammals incidental to activities associated with two offshore wind energy projects in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s Lease Area Outer Continental Shelf A-0499 off of New Jersey over the course of 5 years beginning on January 1, 2025. NOAA Fisheries is announcing receipt of Atlantic Shores' request for the development and implementation


<h4>Dominion Energy Virginia Construction of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial Project off of Virginia​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has received a request from the Virginia Electric and Power Company, also known as Dominion Energy Virginia (Dominion Energy), for authorization to take small numbers of marine mammals incidental to the development of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial Project in Lease Area Outer Continental Shelf A-0483 off of Virginia over the course of 5 years beginning on March 4, 2024.
<h4>Empire Offshore Wind, LLC Construction of the Empire Wind Project (EW1 and EW2) off of New York​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has received a petition from Empire Offshore Wind LLC (Empire), a 50-50 partnership between Equinor and BP, requesting authorization to take small numbers of marine mammals incidental to activities associated with the Empire Wind Project in a designated lease area on the Outer Continental Shelf (OSC-A 0512) offshore of New York state over the course of 5 years beginning in 2024. Equinor will be the operator through the development, construction, and operations phase of the project.

<h4>Park City Wind, LLC Construction of the New England Wind Offshore Wind Farm Project off of Massachusetts​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has received a petition from Park City Wind LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Avangrid Renewables, LLC, requesting authorization to take small numbers of marine mammals incidental to construction activities associated with the New England Wind Offshore Wind Farm in a designated lease area on the Outer Continental Shelf (OSC-A 0534) offshore Massachusetts over the course of 5 years beginning in 2025
The following Authorizations are active:
<h4>Orsted Wind Power North America, LLC Marine Site Characterization Surveys off of New York to Massachusetts​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has issued an incidental harassment authorization to Orsted Wind Power North America LLC to incidentally harass, by Level B harassment only, marine mammals during marine site characterization surveys offshore from Rhode Island to Massachusetts
<h4>Vineyard Northeast, LLC Marine Site Characterization Surveys off of Massachusetts to New Jersey​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has issued an incidental harassment authorization to Vineyard Northeast to incidentally harass, by Level B harassment only, marine mammals incidental to marine site characterization surveys offshore from Massachusetts to New Jersey.

<h4>Attentive Energy LLC Marine Site Characterization Surveys off of New Jersey and New York​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has issued an Incidental Harassment Authorization to Attentive Energy, LLC to incidentally harass marine mammals during marine site characterization surveys associated with high resolution geophysical equipment off the coast of New Jersey and New Jersey.
<h4>Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Bight, LLC Marine Site Characterization Surveys off of New Jersey and New York​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has issued an incidental harassment authorization (IHA) to Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Bight, LLC to incidentally harass marine mammals during site characterization surveys off New Jersey and New York.
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<h4>Park City Wind, LLC Marine Site Characterization Surveys for the New England Wind Project, Phase 1, off of Massachusetts to New York​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has issued an incidental harassment authorization (IHA) to Park City Wind, LLC to incidentally harass marine mammals during marine site characterization surveys offshore of Massachusetts south through Long Island, New York.

• Related Documents

<h4>NextEra Energy Transmission Mid-Atlantic Holdings, LLC Marine Site Characterization Surveys off of New Jersey​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has issued an IHA to NextEra Energy Transmission MidAtlantic Holdings, LLC to incidentally harass, by Level B harassment only, marine mammals during site characterization surveys associated off New Jersey and New York.

• Related Documents

<h4>Dominion Energy Marine Site Characterization Surveys off of Coastal Virginia​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has issued an IHA to Virginia Electric and Power Company doing business as Dominion Energy Virginia to incidentally harass marine mammals during marine site characterization surveys off of Virginia in support of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial Project.

• Related Documents

<h4>​</h4><h4>Ocean Wind II, LLC Marine Site Characterization Surveys off of New Jersey​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has issued an IHA to Ocean Wind II, LLC (Ocean Wind II), an affiliate of Orsted Wind Power North America LLC (Orsted), to incidentally harass, by Level B harassment, marine mammals during marine site characterization surveys off New Jersey in and around the area of Commercial Lease of Submerged Lands for Renewable Energy Development on the Outer Continental Shelf Lease Area (OCS)-A 0532.

• Related Documents

<h4>Orsted Wind Power North America, LLC Marine Site Characterization Surveys off of Delaware​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has issued an incidental harassment authorization (IHA) to the Orsted wind Power North America, LLC for the take of marine mammals incidental to a marine site characterization survey off the coast of Delaware.

• Related Documents

<h4>Renewal of Ocean Wind, LLC Marine Site Characterization Surveys off of New Jersey​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has issued a Renewal incidental harassment authorization (IHA) to Ocean Wind LLC to incidentally harass marine mammals incidental to marine site characterization survey activities off the coast of New Jersey in the areas of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Commercial Lease of Submerged Lands for Renewable Energy Development on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)-A 0498 and federal and state waters along potential export cable routes to landfall locations between Raritan Bay (part of the New York Bight) and Delaware Bay.

• Related Documents

<h4>Kitty Hawk Wind Marine Site Characterization Surveys off of North Carolina and Virginia​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has issued an Incidental Harassment Authorization to Kitty Hawk Wind, LLC, to incidentally harass, by Level B harassment, marine mammals during marine site characterization surveys off North Carolina and Virginia in and around the area of Commercial Lease of Submerged Lands for Renewable Energy Development on the Outer Continental Shelf Lease Area (OCS)-A 0508.

• Related Documents

<h4>Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, LLC Marine Site Characterization Surveys off of New Jersey and New York​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has issued an IHA to Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, LLC to incidentally harass marine mammals during marine site characterization surveys off New Jersey and New York.

• Related Documents

<h4>South Fork Wind, LLC Construction of the South Fork Offshore Wind Project off of Rhode Island and Massachusetts​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has issued an incidental harassment authorization (IHA) to South Fork Wind, LLC to take, by Level A harassment and Level B harassment, marine mammals during construction of a commercial wind energy project offshore New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.

• Related Documents

<h4>Vineyard Wind 1 LLC Construction of the Vineyard Wind Offshore Wind Project off of Massachusetts​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has issued an IHA to Vineyard Wind 1, LLC to take marine mammals incidental to construction of a commercial wind energy project offshore Massachusetts.

• Related Documents

<h4>Alaska Gasline Development Corporation Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Construction in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has issued an incidental harassment authorization (IHA) to the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation to incidentally harass, by Level A and Level B harassment, marine mammals during a particular activity (West Dock facility construction) associated with construction of the Alaska Liquefied Natural Gas Project in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.

• Related Documents

<h4>Alaska Gasline Development Corporation Liquefied Natural Gas Construction in Cook Inlet, Alaska​</h4>Summary: NOAA Fisheries has issued regulations under the Marine Mammal Protection Act for the taking of marine mammals incidental to the Alaska Liquefied Natural Gas project in Cook Inlet, Alaska, over the course of five years (2021-2025). These regulations allow NOAA Fisheries to issue a Letter of Authorization for the incidental take of marine mammals during the specified construction activities carried out during the rule’s period of effectiveness, set forth the permissible methods of taking, set forth other means of effecting the least practicable adverse impact on marine mammal species or stocks and their habitat, and set forth requirements pertaining to the monitoring and reporting of the incidental take.

Not unprecedented. Each commercial license holder up here gets a kill a marine mammal permit from NOAA if it’s incidental to traps/nets.

Not unprecedented. Each commercial license holder up here gets a kill a marine mammal permit from NOAA if it’s incidental to traps/nets.

Agreed. But why not tell us that they know it's the surveying? I have seen the doc that shows the number of Dolfins and whales that will be killed is in the thousands. I'm trying to get my hands on it.

Agreed. But why not tell us that they know it's the surveying? I have seen the doc that shows the number of Dolfins and whales that will be killed is in the thousands. I'm trying to get my hands on it.

C'mon, we all know the answer to that. The train has left the station and nothing's going to stop it. Can't wait for the first right whale killing attributed to surveys or mill themselves. Will be hysterical how the Center for Biological Diversity reacts to that...