Save Long Beach Island filed a fourth lawsuit against the federal government, claiming the Atlantic Shores South offshore wind project will severely endanger the North Atlantic right whale population. The lawsuit argues the project violates multiple environmental statutes and makes arbitrary assumptions about the project's impact on the whales. The lawsuit alleges that the noise from construction and operation will disrupt whale navigation and increase the risk of collisions with fishing vessels.
, filed its fourth lawsuit against the federal government, claiming that the project will cause serious harm to the population of the North Atlantic right whale, an
“We believe we have organized a compelling case that will demonstrate that these federal agencies were derelict in their respective duties to take critical information into account, and moreover, made arbitrary assumptions that entirely failed to disclose and consider the injurious impacts of the Atlantic Shores South project,” Stavola said in a statement.
Bob Stern, the primary plaintiff listed on the lawsuit and a former Department of Energy engineer, has been raising the alarm about the project and its effect on the ocean’s ecosystem and the residents along the Jersey Shore. Stern said the noise caused by pile driving to build the wind turbines and then the “perpetual operational noise will injure and kill a number of North Atlantic right whales, a critically endangered animal that cannot afford to suffer any deaths given their numbers are now less than 340 total.”
OFFSHORE WIND ENVIRONMENT ENDANGERED SPECIES NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALE CLEAN ENERGY
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