Wildlife experts claim that the noise generated by wind turbines affected the sonar that whales use to navigate, causing them to beach themselves. There are several commercial offshore wind farms close to where the whales beached themselves.
“My personal opinion is that it could be a consequence of wind farms and the amount of sand in the water,” John Cresswell, chairman of the Felixstowe Volunteer Coast Patrol Rescue Service, told The Times. “If you stop the boat off the coast you can feel the vibrations and hear the noise.”
The U.K. coastguard received reports of a minke whale calf that had become separated from its mother Friday evening. By the next afternoon, it had been found dead at the mouth of the River Ore, and its mother washed up near Felixstowe. On Sunday, another dead adult whale surfaced, indicating that an entire family could have been killed.
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The infrasound emitted by offshore turbines also kills porpoises and we know there are a significant number of them off OC's coast.
ReplyDeleteDead porpoises washing up on the beach will not be a pretty site for tourist who pay top dollar to frolic on the OC's beach.
Irony at it's best. Trying to do something for the environment and look what happens.
ReplyDeleteWind turbines kill bald eagles as well- end their use
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