Another dead Whale washed up on Brigantine Beach today.
The Marine Mammal Stranding Center and Brigantine Police Department have been notified.
This makes 7 dead whales in the NJ and NY Wind Farm areas.
Just a few places to read more about this.
Marine Mammal Stranding Center Facebook Page
92.7 wobn website – 7th beached whale this season
NJ Congressman Jeff Van Drew is asking questions
Tucker’s video on Fox News about this
Click to read this article from 2021
Type “new jersey beached whales” into Google for more articles about this.
Windmills are old technology that has profound impacts to migratory marine mammals and avian species … Gov Murphy spends time in Western Europe and now New Jersey is going hook, line and sinker for Atlantic Ocean industrialization.
Electric rates in Western Europe are the highest in the developed world.
Thank you Mr. Creamer.
The articles about Governor Murphy and these windmill projects are everywhere.
https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/savelbi-replies-to-governor-murphys-position-on-offshore-wind/
Love Tucker!
Where are the “save the whales” people?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjkxUA041nM
Windmills don’t work. Murphy is just another liberal left screw ball. Complete waste of taxpayer money. Never wanted to get into that business.
“Murphy is just another liberal left screw ball”
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Yes, but you should still pray for the moron. The Lt. Governor would be much worse.
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DON’T VOTE!!!
I voted for myself.
I am all for alternative energy, but the windmills off of Block Island, RI are a total and complete failure. The residents of Block Island saw this as a glimmer of hope for relief to their electric bill. Block Island has the highest per Kilowatt rate in the nation and is a great concern to the island residents. The same song and dance about RI jobs, a new tourist industry, and best of all reduced electric rates was sold to the island. Well, the island has higher elec. rates, one of the most desirable beaches has been destroyed for the past 5 years because the line to tie into the island from the windmill was never properly installed, and the windmills are not even spinning(this past summer, 1 and possibly 2 at times were spinning, out of 5!!) Please do not let this happen to NJ. Block Island was sold a bag of goods!
Clean Electric Cost More … unless you go Nuclear … like the Sun … the source of all energy and life as we know it.
#4 The SLBI organization in the article is made up of ‘save the whale’ people. Another organization behind an effort to stop the survey ships to figure out what is going on is ‘Clean Ocean Action’, yup, another save the whale people.
Maybe read a little before asking provocative, yet ridiculous, questions.
I have to say, it is very funny when republicans pretend to give a crap about wildlife. There is literally not enough space here to go into the thousands of things championed by conventional republicans that negatively impact the environment. Hell, the last presidential administration attempted to open the mid Atlantic shores (all US shores actually) to oil exploration. Oddly enough none of you seemed to care.
If there is a silver lining here, it’s that your hypocrisy is out in the open for all to see. Proudly worn like a badge of honor. Bravo.
I think it’s funny when people with their own planes pretend to care or want us to feel bad that their second home and/or third home has higher electric rates. I’m sure Block Island is an expensive place to summer, but must be very nice. Most of us are struggling to get by though so we don’t really care about how expensive the fuel to your plane to get to your oasis in block island is. No offense.
Rhetoric is as rhetoric does…
Listen to the whale song and relax.
#12. Nail on the head!
Thanks for the post I missed some of the coverage on this. Gene Creamer thanks for your input and I agree with you, but do you think people will go for nuclear?
#13 Um…what? Is that zen speak for “oops, I didn’t realize that environmentalists were on top of the mysterious whale deaths. I can’t believe I just made a crazy statement for cheap political points”?
BTW the article doesn’t say, because the biologists don’t know, how the whales died.
#9 clean energy doesn’t have to cost more. If we give the same amount in subsidies that we give to fossil fuel companies, it wouldn’t cost more. Plus if we dedicated the same amount of tax dollars to infrastructure to support alternative energy that we’ve dedicated to support fossil fuels, it wouldn’t be more. In our free market economy, the best innovations have been helped along with the promise of government support.
Nuclear is def an option. The two main problems being the pesky ‘melt downs’ that have occurred and the fact that it produces a waste that needs to be buried under a literal mountain. The sun is a good idea. Maybe they’ll think of a way to harness sunlight into energy. Ah, I’m sure the folks on this blog have a problem with that too.
#12, If I break down my concerns you may possibly understand my concerns and the personal attacks are just a distraction of what is at stake.
Block Island was the first off shore wind experiment in our Nation, to date it has been a complete failure. The installation process has destroyed local beaches, has cost hundreds of millions of dollars of tax payer money and at this point is not even close to functioning as it was designed.
This same BS is heading to NJ except this is 100 times larger than this failed project. I’m just letting you know the facts, it’s your decision to do what you may with them.
The BI offshore wind farm (first in the nation) was shut down last summer due to stress fractures noticed. Although BI has had problems with its wind farm, there is no need to throw the baby out with the bath water. In 2021, 42 states had utility-scale wind power projects, which together generated a total of about 380 billion kilowatthours (kWh). The five states with the most electricity generation from wind in 2021 were Texas, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Illinois. These states combined produced about 56% of total U.S. wind electricity generation in 2021. 2 While wind and solar are not perfect (no energy source is), they do show real promise for making the US independent from market fluctuations while providing pollution free, renewable, sustainable energy. If I had the choice between looking at windmills or oil rigs, I’ll take windmills every time. We would just need to avoid the mistakes made by the BI leadership.
#18 Thank you for the info, I am all for wind power in NJ, but on land and if it actually produces results. Your list/stats above is all on land. Off shore wind is too expensive, environmentally unproven, components deteriorate faster, our fishing industry is completely against, and incredibly expensive to maintain. Off shore wind, in the one instances the US we have to base this on…is a complete failure. Don’t let the marketing machine NJ has ramped up tell you otherwise, till they can prove it.
#15… Mike … American’s biggest concern with Nuclear is storage of ‘spent’ fuel rods (aka ‘nuclear waste’) … Commercial fuel rods are considered ‘spent’ when only about 5% of the energy therein is actually used-up … ‘spent’ fuel rods are stored in transportable caskets at electric generation sites (like Oyster Creek) … waiting for a geologic storage facility (Yucca Mountain) … this was Jimmy Carter’s plan and the Senator from Nevada put the kabosh on it! … plain old politics.
Carter was fearful of nuclear recycle technology that would reduce ‘nuclear waste’ and any constipation.
Meanwhile, France has moved forward and 15% of their electric production comes from recycled ‘nuclear waste’ … no wonder the first climate agreement was signed in Paris.
Jimmy Carter hasn’t been president since 1981. That’s 42 years. The original reason given for not recycling nuclear waste was possible proliferation and a fear of it being used for weapons. You know, terrorists and such.
Neither congress nor the six presidents since 1981 have done a thing to make it possible to recycle the spent rods. It’s time to take another look.
#19 agree. Seems like BI was sold a bill of goods. There are several off shore wind farms all over the world that seem to doing well. But buyer beware.
I suppose many people do not have my sense of history regarding environmental issues, in this case, saving the whales. The spirit of the people from earlier periods is what I lament and call forth from the mists.
https://whale.org/thank-pete-seeger/
#23 ok I think I got it now. You were saying “where are the save the whales people” in a seemingly sarcastic jab at the ‘save the whales’ people. Oh wait, I did get it.
We as modern Americans tend to retreat to our own little echo chamber bubbles of homogenization. You may be surprised to find out that the environmental movement, including the save the whales people, is as active as ever. And fighting the good fight against the apathetic and the down right mean. Someone with such a sense of history should know that simply ignoring something doesn’t mean it is swept away.
Nice try tho.
#24 That’s OK, Spotty. Just be mindful of those raptor claws. I will now listen to some Peter Paul and Mary songs. Just kidding.
#25 love me some P P and M.
I will mind the raptor claws, I enjoy pointing them out to the people who don’t seem to know they’re using them.
The soundings that the mapping vessels take as well as the underwater demolition to prepare the offshore sites is certainly detrimental and most likely in some cases deadly to some of our beloved whales. We also have to consider that at least one necropsy was confirmed as a vessel strike and the younger whales suffer because they are less apt to avoid large ships. That being said, there are many more whales than just a handful of years ago and container shipping has increased again as the Covid era has waned.
Also, five NATO Aircraft Carrier Groups held large and almost unprecedented exercises in the North Atlantic just last month and although submarine activity is highly secret, you can be certain that has increased as well with the war raging in Europe. Not only US Navy ship strikes but submarine sonar damage to the whales is possibly a cause from these operations. There’s a lot more data that could come into play than simply offshore wind turbine construction although it certainly has proven to be detrimental to marine life on many levels.
Take for example the Tucker Carlson video provided above; The woman being interviewed said “nothing has changed since 2016 except for the increase in sonar surveys for the wind farms”. Like all the mainstream corporate news media arguments, it wrongly speaks to absolutes of black and white. Whale populations have climbed dramatically in those years here as we all know, and plastics in the ocean have also skyrocketed. Once again, the government will use the same counter argument and “the show will go on” as the government’s horses of money, power, and greed have already left the barn.
As far as the offshore windmills, I strongly believe they are the worst of ideas for The Jersey Shore and the world for several reasons even though my union dockbuilder brothers and sisters will benefit greatly from their construction.
Firstly, they will probably be obsolete within a decade or less as Mr. Creamer alluded to, as other forms of energy generation on the horizon will supersede them. The pace at which science and engineering are moving towards “true” green energy production is astronomically rapid and while folks like Bill Gates have projected massive wind turbine power thirty years into the future recently at The Earth Summit, because of what I read almost weekly in the world’s scientific journals I subscribe to, I’ll bet the windfarm that turbines on this scale will look like dinosaurs of engineering in just several short years. In fact, a drilling technology breakthrough to drill much deeper and cheaper, that will harness geothermal energy at the depths needed to make it entirely more cost competitive and therefore feasible, was just unveiled late last year.
Second; Because they are constructed on top of sea mounts which are areas that are diverse in species, hatcheries, and also where most sea life tends to congregate. Mr. Merkler alluded to this fact when pointing out the failures offshore near Block Island. You have to think of these spots as offshore underwater rainforests when compared to other areas of the seabed. They simply are that much more alive and critical than other marine environments, and not only to underwater marine life, but to pelagic and oceanic bird species that frequent their waters as well.
Third; Giant wind turbines are massive “salad shooters” to birds that migrate along the Atlantic Flyway. There are so many species of birds that make the jump across the New York/New Jersey Bight during migration as well as oceanic species I mentioned that regularly fish off the sea mounts. They’ll certainly die at increased rates especially during migratory seasons.
Fourth; They use a lot of petroleum in the form of lubrication, and maintenance offshore is expensive compared to on land. The need for occasional accidental spill containment is also much more difficult as once again, Mr. Merkler alluded to. Because of this reason “Big Oil” is actually a large proponent of this form of “green energy” and has been transitioning massive funding into this area.
Fifth; The blades need to be replaced periodically and they are not recyclable! They get buried in the Utah landfills currently.
Sixth; There are currently wind power units roughly the size of a desk that can be mounted individually on homes and the blades are in an enclosed area and screened off from wildlife. These home wind units are becoming more and more common across certain countries in Eurasia where restrictions, bans, and solid ecological long term decisions aren’t orchestrated from the standpoint of fast political favors, quick corporate greed, slick media induced fear, and unending big government control as they are here in the good ole U.S. of A.
OMG! Who woke McEvoy up? He is an IKE