The Biden administration has aggressively pushed for offshore wind energy expansions, which critics say would amount to the industrialization of oceans.
FOX Business correspondent Madison Alworth provides details on a NOAA scientist's warning about the impact of offshore wind projects on whales. The warning, Alworth reports, was ignored, and 23 dead whales have since washed up along the East Coast.across millions of acres of federal waters, actions that critics warn would have dire ecological and economic impacts.
In May 2021, the DOI's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approved the 800-megawatt Vineyard Wind project 12 miles off the coast of Massachusetts, marking the first ever large-scale offshore wind approval. Then, in November 2021, the agency approved the 130-megawatt Southfork Wind project off the coast of Long Island, New York, the second commercial-scale offshore project.
According to a report ACOP published in February, BOEM has stated that wind turbine structures will lead to radar interference, increasing likelihood of vessel collisions and complicating search-and-rescue missions; likely harm wildlife; industrialize ocean views, possibly harming tourism industries; impede key military operations; and impair oceanic scientific research.
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