NOAA Needs Moratorium On Offshore Wind Over Whale Deaths

The construction process and implementation of offshore wind farms may have tipped the delicate underwater environment against the whales.

The United States Navy in 2015 facing several lawsuits has finally agreed to limit its use of sonar devices that harm dolphins and whales, especially in areas off the coast of Hawaii and Southern California.

NOAA needs to declare a moratorium on offshore wind until it concludes an investigation that has been ongoing for four months with no answers. The Right whales are endangered species

The US navy is aware low-frequency noise was blowing the brains out of whales (see video below)

NOAA Fisheries declared in April of 2017, the recent deaths of 41 humpback whales from 2016 through Maine to North Carolina to be an unusual mortality event, triggering a focused, expert investigation into the cause. Since the announcement by NOAA to investigate the whale deaths all types of the species continue to wash up on shore.

It's clear to the most casual observer the federal government has been funding the mapping of the ocean floors along the coast with high-resolution hydrographic sonar. The increase in whale deaths coincidently matches the increase in the offshore wind construction process.

Much of the mapping has been done with the NOAA vessel Nancey Foster.

Private ocean wind turbine companies have been conducting their own mapping off the coast to find the best location for underwater electric cables and turbines. Who knows what type of equipment they use or bid the work to a foreign government as is the case in most of the wind turbine construction.Very little concern has been raised regarding seismic surveys used on the ocean floor to measure where to place the wind turbines.

High power electric cables strung between the wind turbines emit magnetic and electric fields.Effects of EMF, electromagnetic fields from undersea cables add to the equation of noise and frequency.

NOAA is in the fourth month of an investigation of whale deaths.

Massachusetts state politicians have been investigating infra sound for seven years with no conclusion. There is no conclusion because of a political agenda on commercial wind turbines.

Falmouth a town on Cape Cod is ground zero for poorly placed wind turbines inthe United States along with twenty one other local communities

NOAA is aware of the dangers of low-frequency noise in the ocean per technical memo NMFS-OPR-55
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NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-55
July 2016

Technical Guidance for Assessing the Effects of Anthropogenic Sound on Marine Mammal Hearing
Underwater Acoustic Thresholds for Onset of Permanent and Temporary Threshold Shifts
Office of Protected Resources
National Marine Fisheries Service
Silver Spring, MD 20910

Marine mammals were divided into six groups for analysis: low-frequency cetaceans (group LF: mysticetes), mid-frequency cetaceans (group MF: delphinids, beaked whales, sperm whales), high-frequency cetaceans (group HF: porpoises, river dolphins), sirenians (group SI: manatees), phocids in water (group PW: true seals), and otariids and other non-phocid marine carnivores in water (group OW: sea lions, walruses, otters, polar bears).

Technical Guidance - NOAA Fisheries

www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/acoustics...
. Effects of noise on marine mammal hearing

The North Atlantic right whale is particularly susceptible to ship strikes and ship strikes which are the largest cause of human-related mortality of this highly endangered species. Measures have been taken to reduce the risk of ship strikes of the right whale.

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Navy Sonar Blowing The Brains Out Of Whales And Dolphins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB1Fqy6P9Bg

Navy Sonar Blowing The Brains Out of Whales and Dolphins! URGENT!!!

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