Laura Helmuth
There are “no links whatsoever between the offshore wind development activity and especially the humpback whale mortalities. None. Zero.” But oil & gas & shipping interests sure want you to think wind energy is what's killing whales https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whales-are-dying-but-not-from-offshore-wind/
Whales Are Dying but Not from Offshore Wind

Politicians and nonprofit groups have blamed offshore wind turbines for whale deaths, but the science doesn’t support those claims—at all

Scientific American
Jun 26, 2024 at 12:57pmWeb
Show threadtoufyJun 26, 2024
@laurahelmuth we're looking for something else to blame, because oil spills aren't that common
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_spills
List of oil spills - Wikipedia

Show threadCorpomancerJun 26, 2024

@laurahelmuth "Ahem"

Allow me to steer the story back to how many birds are killed by windmills, without mentioning Mega Farm Corp.

Show threadLett Osprey   🍉 Jun 26, 2024
@corpomancer @laurahelmuth Nothing kills birds like people not keeping their cats in, but the same people eagerly go after green energy...
Show threadFAIRJun 26, 2024

@laurahelmuth

FAIR's @oliviariggio wrote about this last year.

https://fair.org/home/oil-lobby-prompts-right-wing-media-to-save-whales-from-wind-power/

Show threadJohn Rohde JensenJun 26, 2024
@laurahelmuth @Ruth_Mottram Now check the impact of seismic exploration ships on marine life. Weeks of massive booms in a small area.
Show threadXenoPhage Jun 26, 2024
@laurahelmuth Wait.. why would offshore wind have anything to do with whale deaths? I'm not sure I understand the logical leap they're intending folks to take.. I mean, I get that this is a “it's totally not us, it's, uh.. that thing over there that's new” mentality, but .. huh?
Show threadPeter BrownJun 26, 2024

@laurahelmuth even supposing they were harmful, which they’re not, the solution is to place them on dry land.

(The turbines, not the whales)