The people trying to stop Offshore Wind Farms in Jersey aren't Trumpers. It's locals watching a bunch of dead whales wash up, which may or may not have anything to do with the turbines, it's still being investigated.

The irony being the whales are being killed by shipping strikes as whales migration changes due to climate change, being entangled in fishing nets, and swallowing plastic-essentially a result of plastic pollution, i.e. the OPPOSITE of a windfarm.

#25 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2024-05-15 07:09 PM | FLAG:

That's the fast answer people want it to be, but it's not so straight forward. The initial installs of wind farms will have negative effects on sea life, as they ship all of the hardware into place then hydraulically jackhammer massive steel casings into the ocean floor for anchoring. After it recovers the sea life will improve down the water column and make for great fishing.

If you can deafen a whale with sonar, it's reasonable you can deafen a whale with hydraulic hammers on the ocean floor. A deaf whale is going to have a hard time detecting a ship. It doesn't mean you can't install, but a thorough environmental review will limit when the install can happen.

"Texas is the leader in wind energy generation in the United States, with the largest installed capacity at 36,008.9 megawatts in the third quarter of 2023. This is 27.1 percent of the nation's total."

Energy mix doesn't matter if it's poorly managed.