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"The United States District Court for the District of Maryland has tossed a flawed environmental assessment that grossly underestimated harms to endangered and threatened marine species from oil and gas drilling and exploration in the Gulf of Mexico.
Among other deficiencies, it found the opinion wrongly assumed that a catastrophic oil spill like the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon will not occur despite NMFS’ own finding that such a spill can be expected."
The Rice’s whale —one of the world’s rarest whales— lost an estimated 20 percent of its population as a result of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
A flawed biological opinion can deliver a stunning blow to Gulf species.
An additional 21,500 sea turtles would be killed or harmed by oil spills, the opinion predicted. Authorized oil and gas activities could also kill or harm dozens of imperiled sperm whales, giant manta rays, Gulf sturgeon and oceanic whitetip sharks."
Turns out that whales are killed by oil and gas production and the pollution that brings.
Not by offshore wind turbines at all
(whales die off the coast of New Jersey because they're run over by ships).
Certainly for whales, life is way #BetterWithoutFossilFuels
Which is worse for wildlife, wind farms or oil drilling?
"Ellis and other scientists specialising in the environmental impact of #WindFarms ... describe wind energy as a powerful and necessary weapon against #ClimateChange, arguing that its impact on wildlife can be understood, managed and reduced.
They contrast this with the existential risk posed by fossil fuels driving global warming – along with the ongoing noise and #pollution from #OilAndGas production."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250129-oil-vs-wind-which-is-worse-for-birds-and-whales
"#ClimateChange is by far, by far the worst enemy, to all wildlife, and humans."
"Wind power does alter the ecosystem, Scott says, but the impact is not necessarily always negative. Research tracking seals suggests that they now use wind farms as hunting grounds to forage for fish gathering around the turbines, for example, with one seal's tracks showing how the animal made its way through the farm and stopped at different turbines to snack."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250129-oil-vs-wind-which-is-worse-for-birds-and-whales
Oil and gas exploration uses seismic surveys. The sound is so powerful that "you can hear it all the way across the Gulf of Mexico". And it continues during extraction.
"For whales, dolphins and other marine mammals that rely on sound and echolocation to find their food in dark and murky water, such loud and sudden underwater noise can be deeply disorienting, equivalent to being blinded."
For wind farms, noise is more local, and limited to the pile-driving stage.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250129-oil-vs-wind-which-is-worse-for-birds-and-whales
"Why do wildlife conservation organizations, such as #Audubon and the National Wildlife Federation, support responsible development of #OffshoreWind?
It’s primarily because, while wind turbines do harm some birds, the threats pale in comparison to other threats that birds face, including those from #FossilFuels and #ClimateChange that offshore wind actively helps to reduce. And, even better, there are many ways to minimize the impacts."
https://environmentamerica.org/center/articles/does-offshore-wind-actually-kill-birds/
UK’s offshore windfarms to be painted black to protect birds
"A study in Norway which examined the effects of dyeing one wind turbine blade black found it resulted in a 70% fall in associated bird deaths.
Iberdrola, a Spanish utility company, has tried another direction by using decals that look like eyes at the base of the wind turbine. This tactic was found to be successful at deterring birds."
The office building, where these articles were studied and written, have killed more birds than all the wind generators they looked at.
The author's cats killed more birds than their office building.
Below is "Bird kills" by energy system, plus office buildings, plus kitties.
It's NOT EVEN CLOSE. Its a fake lying thing.
