NEW YORK POST • May 8, 2023
Drilling foundations for offshore wind turbines and sound pulses used to prepare for the 900-foot towers may be creating a “death zone” for whales, a former Greenpeace chief claims. Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace and its ex-president in Canada, believes the acoustic systems used by vessels surveying the ocean floor harm the marine mammals’ sense of hearing – risking their crucial ability to navigate, and leading to more dead whales washing up onshore. His intervention comes after four minke whale corpses were discovered between Thursday and Sunday, including one f ound at York, Maine. At least 36 “large” whales have washed up along the East Coast since Dec. 1.