{"id":65948,"date":"2023-10-12T05:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T10:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65948"},"modified":"2023-10-12T05:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T10:22:23","slug":"offshore-wind-is-an-economic-and-environmental-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65948","title":{"rendered":"Offshore Wind is an Economic and Environmental Catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2023\/10\/11\/offshore-wind-is-an-economic-and-environmental-catastrophe\/\">Offshore Wind is an Economic and Environmental Catastrophe<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"mb-5 text-lg font-light text-center text-gray-400 lg:mx-16 md:text-xl font-byline md:mb-10 ag-subdeck\">\n<p><strong>California project would be one of the most egregious cases of environmental destruction in human history<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content relative  dropcap \">\n<p>When it comes to \u201crenewables\u201d wreaking havoc on the environment, wind turbines have stiff competition. For example,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbioenergy.org\/uploads\/WBA%20GBS%202017_hq.pdf\">over 500,000 square miles<\/a>\u00a0of biofuel plantations have already replaced farms and forests to replace a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/renewables-2022\/transport-biofuels\">mere 4 percent of transportation fuel<\/a>. To source raw materials to build \u201csustainable\u201d batteries,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alanohnsman\/2022\/09\/19\/dig-this-the-shift-to-evs-requires-a-massive-expansion-of-battery-metal-mining\/\">mining operations<\/a>\u00a0are scaling up, with no end in sight, in nations with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/features\/siddharth-kara-cobalt-mining-labor-congo\">appalling labor conditions<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2071-1050\/14\/15\/9545\">nonexistent environmental regulations<\/a>. But the worst offender is the wind industry.<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s wind power industry somehow manages to attract almost no negative coverage in the press, or litigation from environmentalists, despite causing some of the most obvious and tragic environmental catastrophes so far this century. Last August I wrote about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2023\/08\/30\/saving-the-environment-from-environmentalists\/\">ongoing slaughter of whales<\/a>\u00a0off America\u2019s northeast coast thanks to construction of offshore wind turbines:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you detonate massive explosives, repeatedly drive steel piles into the ocean floor with a hydraulic hammer, and blast high decibel sonar mapping signals underwater, you\u2019re going to harm animals that rely on sound to orient themselves in the ocean. To say it is mere coincidence that hundreds of these creatures have washed ashore, dead, all of a sudden, during precisely the same months when the blasting and pounding began, is brazen deception.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, when the story can\u2019t be buried, deception is the strategy. Not one major environmental organization, government watchdog agency, or media outlet has called for a slowdown in industrial offshore wind projects. Instead, they repeatedly claim these allegations are misinformation. And from that paragon of truth, FactCheck.org,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2023\/03\/no-evidence-offshore-wind-development-killing-whales\/\">we get this<\/a>: \u201cNo Evidence Offshore Wind Development Killing Whales.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offshore Wind is an Economic and Environmental Catastrophe California project would be one of the most egregious cases of environmental destruction in human history When it comes to \u201crenewables\u201d wreaking havoc on the environment, wind turbines have stiff competition. For example,\u00a0over 500,000 square miles\u00a0of biofuel plantations have already replaced farms and forests to replace a\u00a0mere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[33944,101,33972,33973,15442,884],"class_list":["post-65948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-american-greatness","tag-california","tag-edward-ring","tag-offshore-wind","tag-renewables","tag-wind-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65949,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65948\/revisions\/65949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}