Whales and Offshore Wind: Trump Time (Wojick has built a case)

“Many of these 41 CFACT articles were sent to key NOAA whale protection people when published over a period of 2.5 years. All have been carefully ignored, an ongoing deception. Trump has promised action.” ( – David Wojick, CFACT)

The all-of-government approach to climate by Podesta-Biden-Harris covers the science agencies too. Climate hype, all the time, as well as nonstop cheerleading toward politically correct, economically incorrect government-enabled energies. It is now time for reversal, including with environmental issues concerning dilute, intermittent, fragile, and invasive wind and solar.

David Wojick, Ph.D., senior advisor to the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), [1] has chronicled the whale death/offshore wind connection since the issue arose in mid-2022. His “New Year’s retrospective” provides a listing of this work. He begins:

Many of these 41 CFACT articles were sent to key NOAA whale protection people when published over a period of 2.5 years. All have been carefully ignored, an ongoing deception. Trump has promised action.

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1. Capping marine mammal harassment constrains offshore wind

https://www.cfact.org/2024/12/09/capping-marine-mamma-harassment-constrains-offshore-wind

2. The California offshore wind environmental impact statement is full of holes

https://www.cfact.org/2024/12/02/the-california-offshore-wind-environmental-impact-statement-is-full-of-holes

3. Feds must rethink authorizing harassment of whales by offshore wind

https://www.cfact.org/2024/08/14/feds-must-rethink-authorizing-harassment-of-whales-by-offshore-wind

4. Offshore wind whale deaths indicated by statistical analysis

https://www.cfact.org/2024/07/22/offshore-wind-serial-whale-deaths-indicated-by-statistical-analysis

5. Feds say “damn the whales” in the Gulf of Maine

https://www.cfact.org/2024/07/01/feds-say-damn-the-whales-in-the-gulf-of-maine

6. Freedom advocates are the Right Whale’s best hope

https://www.cfact.org/2024/06/03/freedom-advocates-are-the-right-whales-best-hope

7. Offshore wind cumulative impact issue analysis

https://www.cfact.org/2024/05/13/offshore-wind-cumulative-impact-issue-analysis

8. Boston Globe’s whale protection contradiction

https://www.cfact.org/2024/04/02/boston-globes-whale-protection-contradiction

9. Dominion Energy’s absurd reply to CFACT’s whale protection lawsuit

https://www.cfact.org/2024/03/26/dominion-energys-absurd-reply-to-cfacts-whale-protection-lawsuit

10. CFACT calls for banning offshore wind monopiles in favor of suction buckets to save whales

https://www.cfact.org/2024/03/11/cfact-calls-for-banning-offshore-wind-monopiles-in-favor-of-suction-buckets-to-save-whales

11. CFACT blasts offshore wind multiple-site assessment as ridiculous

https://www.cfact.org/2024/03/06/cfact-blasts-offshore-wind-multiple-site-assessment-as-ridiculous

12. CFACT says offshore wind violates Clean Air and Clean Water Acts

https://www.cfact.org/2024/03/04/cfact-says-offshore-wind-threatens-air-and-water-quality

13. Offshore wind has a big up and down week

https://www.cfact.org/2024/02/01/offshore-wind-has-a-big-up-and-down-week

14. Fed’s first multi-site offshore wind EIS is ridiculous

https://www.cfact.org/2024/01/16/feds-first-multi-site-offshore-wind-eis-is-ridiculous

15. NAS study raises concern over offshore wind harming endangered whales

https://www.cfact.org/2023/12/01/nas-study-raises-concern-over-offshore-wind-harming-endangered-whales

16. Offshore wind is systematically violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act

https://www.cfact.org/2023/09/28/offshore-wind-is-systematically-violating-the-marine-mammal-protection-act

17. A tale of two whale protection groups

https://www.cfact.org/2023/09/18/a-tale-of-two-whale-protection-groups

18. Offshore wind a greater threat to whales than oil

https://www.cfact.org/2023/08/07/offshore-wind-a-greater-threat-to-whales-than-oil

19. The whale killing study the Feds are afraid to do

https://www.cfact.org/2023/07/11/the-whale-killing-study-the-feds-are-afraid-to-do

20. NOAA proposes massively cruel offshore sonar survey

https://www.cfact.org/2023/06/05/noaa-proposes-massively-cruel-offshore-sonar-survey

21. Feds play shell game with wind / whale impacts

https://www.cfact.org/2023/05/23/feds-play-shell-game-with-wind-whale-impacts

22. Feds admit offshore wind can kill whales!

https://www.cfact.org/2023/04/27/feds-admit-offshore-wind-can-kill-whales

23. NOAA proposes hammering 208% of vanishing Right Whales

https://www.cfact.org/2023/04/24/noaa-proposes-hammering-208-of-vanishing-right-whales

24. Ignoring dead whales, NOAA proposes another site survey off New Jersey

https://www.cfact.org/2023/04/05/ignoring-dead-whales-noaa-proposes-another-site-survey-off-new-jersey

25. Proposed House Resolution calls for offshore wind moratorium

https://www.cfact.org/2023/03/31/proposed-house-resolution-calls-for-offshore-wind-moratorium

26. Whale death confusion abounds and some is deliberate

https://www.cfact.org/2023/03/10/whale-death-confusion-abounds-and-some-is-deliberate

27. Offshore wind impact probe proposed

https://www.cfact.org/2023/02/20/offshore-wind-impact-probe-proposed

28. Whale hell looms in Massachusetts

https://www.cfact.org/2023/02/16/whale-hell-looms-in-massachusetts

29. Feds push ignorance defense for whale killing by offshore wind development

https://www.cfact.org/2023/01/30/feds-push-ignorance-defense-for-whale-killing-by-offshore-wind-development

30. Evidence says offshore wind development is killing lots of whales

https://www.cfact.org/2023/01/23/evidence-says-offshore-wind-development-is-killing-lots-of-whales

31. The silly giant scale of US offshore wind development

https://www.cfact.org/2023/01/07/the-silly-giant-scale-of-us-offshore-wind-development

32. Ten whale groups slam Atlantic OSW

https://www.cfact.org/2022/12/21/ten-whale-groups-slam-atlantic-osw

33. Official Coalition Comments on BOEM right whale offshore wind strategy

https://www.cfact.org/2022/12/05/official-coalition-comments-on-boem-right-whale-offshore-wind-strategy

34. Dominion’s silly denial of the great threat to whales

https://www.cfact.org/2022/10/22/dominions-silly-denial-of-the-great-threat-to-whales

35. NOAA says Right Whales are “desperately endangered”

https://www.cfact.org/2022/10/18/noaa-says-right-whales-are-desperately-endangered

36. How to kill whales with offshore wind

https://www.cfact.org/2022/09/27/how-to-kill-whales-with-offshore-wind

37. Wishes and secrets fill Dominion’s offshore wind Plan

https://www.cfact.org/2022/09/21/wishes-and-secrets-fill-dominions-offshore-wind-plan

38. Dominion hides OSW threat to whales

https://www.cfact.org/2022/09/15/dominion-hides-osw-threat-to-whales

39. Threat to endangered whales gets LOUDER

https://www.cfact.org/2022/07/26/threat-to-endangered-whales-gets-louder

40. Are the Feds hiding the Virginia endangered whales?

https://www.cfact.org/2022/07/22/are-the-feds-hiding-the-virginia-endangered-whales

41. Virginia’s offshore wind proposal threatens endangered whales

https://www.cfact.org/2022/07/13/virginias-offshore-wind-proposal-threatens-endangered-whales

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[1] David Wojick, independent consultant and senior advisor to CFACT, is a civil engineer with a Ph.D. in logic and analytic philosophy of science. He specializes in science and technology issues in energy and the environment. Wojick has served on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University and the staff of the Naval Research Laboratory. Many of his articles for think tanks, trade associations, businesses, and government agencies can be found here.

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