BANGOR DAILY NEWS • July 9, 2024
Whales have been washing up dead on beaches since prehistoric times. Signs of human-caused injuries are a more recent phenomenon, with strikes by ships and entanglements with fishing gear among the causes. In recent years, another theory has surfaced that has tried to shift the blame for those deaths to something new: the development of offshore wind power. But those claims simply aren’t true, according to government officials and whale scientists. Offshore wind turbines, and the electricity they generate, are not killing whales.