Whales Die, While Officials, Media, and Environmentalists Lie
"Save the Whales" is now "sacrifice the whales" to East Coast wind turbines, oil & gas drilling, and reporter lackeys for the marine-industrial complex. Sound familiar? More "unintended consequences" from short term government thinking compounded by regulatory capture.
Along the Jersey Shore, several
companies, including Atlantic Shores (owned jointly by oil and gas titan Shell
and the French-based utility company EDF) and Danish-based Orsted, are mapping
the ocean floor—the first step toward construction of hundreds of mammoth
offshore wind turbines. Many will be smack in the face of some of the
wealthiest shorefront communities on the East Coast. But it wasn't just the soon-to-be
disfigurement of the magnificent ocean views that got people really agitated.
It was all those dead whales and dolphins.