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Wiping out hundreds of marine mammals is all in a day’s work for the offshore wind industry. And granting permits to do so, with complete impunity, appears to be the work of the US government.

The mindless slaughter of whales, dolphins, porpoises and sealed is completely legit, thanks to the government-backed licenses known as the ‘Incidental Harassment Authorization’.

As David Wojick reports below, the wind industry’s cruelty is only matched by its audacity.

NOAA proposes massively cruel offshore sonar survey
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David Wojick
5 June 2023

You would think that with all the uproar over whale deaths, NOAA and the offshore wind industry would be more careful about harassing huge numbers of marine mammals. On the contrary, NOAA’s latest proposal sets a new record for needless cruelty.

NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is taking comments on an outrageously destructive harassment proposal from Invenergy Wind off the coast…