Remember when "Saving the Whales" was in vogue?
New York Post (8/2/23) reports: "The Biden administration appears to be scrambling for research on the conflict between wind turbines and a highly endangered whale species on the East Coast following reports of 'unprecedented' whale deaths. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), a regulatory body from the Department of Interior that leases offshore areas for energy development, posted a grant notice in May targeted at 'addressing key information gaps in acoustic ecology of the North Atlantic Right Whales,' one of the most endangered whale species in the world. The problem is the government has already approved offshore wind projects, and some experts are saying the attention to the whales is too little too late. Fishermen in the region are calling the government 'hypocritical' after the same federal agencies almost 'regulated [them] completely out of business' in an effort to protect the endangered species without any data showing fishermen bring any harm to the right whale. BOEM’s grant notice states, 'In support of the rapid development of offshore wind (OSW) on the Atlantic OCS, the Environmental Studies Program (ESP) has identified a priority need to address knowledge gaps in the acoustic behavior of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales (NARW).'"
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"Many well-intentioned people might have supported a carbon tax under false pretenses, but once reality sets in they realize they can’t afford it. This is the abusive pattern of a government more focused on its own agenda than on integrity."
–Donald Kimball,
Washington Policy Center
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