{"id":311140,"date":"2024-03-21T19:56:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T18:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=311140"},"modified":"2024-03-21T19:56:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T18:56:35","slug":"coalition-lawsuit-demands-regulators-study-offshore-wind-impacts-on-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=311140","title":{"rendered":"Coalition lawsuit demands regulators study offshore wind impacts on whales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CFACT is taking legal action to protect endangered Right Whales and other marine life from the Biden Administration\u2019s rush to approve massive clusters of wind farms along Virginia\u2019s shore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whales have been washing up on beaches off the East Coast at increased rates. At the same time offshore wind installations have intruded heavily upon their habitat, unleashing a tremendous underwater din.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CFACT issued a press release<\/strong><\/a>, and news of our lawsuit has already been picked up by Reuters<\/a><\/em>, Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>, Yahoo News<\/a><\/em>, The Hill<\/em><\/a>, NewsMax<\/a><\/em>, and radio stations<\/a>.  It is continuing to snowball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do dense clusters of massive wind turbines in marine habitats pose a threat to marine mammals?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our government \u201cwatchdogs\u201d don\u2019t want to know.  Ideologically blinkered bureaucrats are rushing approval of wind turbine construction and skipping the due diligence the law requires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CFACT is partnering with The Heartland Institute and the National Legal and Policy Center to file a lawsuit<\/a> that demands a halt to offshore wind construction until sound research is conducted and reliable answers are found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, massive wind and solar installations are the product of a bizarre convergence of climate and anti-free market ideologies, mated with corporate interests seeking to cash in on government mandates and subsidies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The so-called \u201cGreen\u201d movement is fully behind this absurdity and appears willing to destroy nature to not to save it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even more absurd are the facts that reveal<\/a><\/strong> that converting fields and forests into solar deserts and clustering wind turbines on unspoiled hillsides and ocean shores are terrible ways to generate electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both wind and solar energy are intermittent, inefficient, incredibly expensive, resource intensive, require miles of transmission lines, are not recyclable and carry tremendously heavy, dirty footprints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Varying weather, sunshine and wind speeds leave wind and solar power unreliable and the grid unstable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With storing so-called renewable energy impractical and ruinously expensive, reliable energy generation from nuclear and hydrocarbons must be backed-up 24\/7.  Power plants cannot be switched on and off at a whim, so they end up being where your electricity actually comes from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe already made this mistake and Europeans ongoing reliance on nuclear, gas and coal prove their folly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wind and solar take a heavy toll on our natural environment and are far more efficient at generating subsidies than power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CFACT and our partners are demanding that the courts call a halt<\/strong><\/a> until the environmental harm from offshore wind turbines is understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A free, fair and full understanding of what wind and solar mean for the economy and the environment is likely to conclude we should build no more of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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