{"id":248703,"date":"2023-03-20T09:43:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T08:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=248703"},"modified":"2023-03-20T09:44:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T08:44:06","slug":"green-energy-slaughter-offshore-wind-turbines-wiping-out-puffins-gulls-gannets-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=248703","title":{"rendered":"\u201aGreen\u2018 Energy Slaughter: Offshore Wind Turbines Wiping Out Puffins, Gulls, Gannets & More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The bird carcasses soon pile up wherever the wind industry plies its subsidy-soaked trade. When it comes to wholesale avian slaughter, the offshore industry sets the benchmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Offshore wind is already meting out a phenomenal death toll on a whole range of seabirds in the waters surrounding Britain and across the North Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Puffins are being pummelled, gannets and gulls ground out of existence, in their thousands. And all to produce (massively subsidised) electricity in chaotic fits and spurts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Britain led the \u2018green\u2019 energy slaughter of seabirds, now the Dutch want in on the act, as Jason Endfield reports below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thousands Of Gannets Will Perish As North Sea \u2018Wind Parks\u2019 Expand<\/strong>
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Jason Endfield
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The Netherlands government plans to industrialise the North Sea by building thousands of wind turbines, as it attempts to meet goals proposed under the Climate Agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Dutch citizens objected to renewable energy projects in their countryside, the government turned its attention to offshore development. But at what cost to the environment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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5000 giant turbines killing 8000+ birds each year\u2026<\/strong>
Plans for 5000 giant turbines in the North Sea have caused alarm in some environmental circles, even though the Dutch government has earmarked significant areas of its offshore territory as \u2018nature reserves\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite how functional these reserves would be in the midst of an industrialised \u2018renewable\u2019 energy zone remains to be seen, and according to a study<\/a> by Wageningen University, \u201cno one knows what effect extensive wind parks will have, nor what the nature network in the North sea should look like if we want to achieve our climate and nature goals\u201d.
It seems likely that the radical plan will go ahead regardless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study suggests that an estimated 3650 gulls and 4400 northern gannets will perish every year through collision with fast moving blades, if the target figure of 5000 turbines is achieved. The University\u2019s marine research ecologist Martin Baptist explained, \u201cthat is why we are now looking into ways to scare the seabirds away from the turbines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Northern Gannet populations at risk\u2026<\/strong>
With the UK joining the Netherlands in its aspirations to further develop offshore wind farms in the North Sea, many are now wondering how wildlife can possibly survive in such a vast industrial area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK coast is home to more than half of the entire world population of Northern Gannets, an amber listed species of high conservation concern. These magnificent birds are almost as large as an albatross and can live for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, many species of gull are experiencing rapid population decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With such drastic plans to industrialise our seas, the long term survival of some species could be in doubt; there is an immediate and credible threat to birds, cetaceans, bats and other wildlife from offshore renewables, in addition to the potentially profound damage wind farms cause to micro marine ecosystems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the quest for \u2018green\u2019 energy, such a high level of collateral damage is highly problematic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Following the money \u2013 into earth\u2019s last wilderness\u2026<\/strong>
Some scientists and environmentalists have already raised questions over all of these issues, but their concerns have been swept aside as governments wilfully follow their agenda \u2013 and the money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a time when the ocean was recognised as the last wilderness on earth, a refuge for many species, safe from humankind\u2019s persistent interference. Alas not any more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s madness to indulge the absurd fantasy that wind energy will save the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where money is involved, integrity can disappear into the ether, greed is often the primary driver of environmentally questionable projects such as the North Sea \u2018wind parks\u2019 \u2013 and many similar schemes worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Labelling them as \u2018farms\u2019 and \u2018parks\u2019 is a cynical attempt to make them more acceptable to the public. Furthermore, some might say that it is deceitful to promote them as \u2018environmentally friendly\u2019, \u2018green\u2019 and a solution to the so-called \u2018climate crisis\u2019.
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The bird carcasses soon pile up wherever the wind industry plies its subsidy-soaked trade. 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