The Government Accountability Office (GAO) agreed Thursday to launch an investigation into the impacts of offshore wind development as whale deaths off the east coast continue to mount, the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) has confirmed.
The independent congressional watchdog will examine various impacts of offshore wind industrialization, including environmental effects, a GAO spokesman confirmed to the DCNF. At least 335 whales have washed up on beaches of the east coast since 2017, according to The New York Times.
The GAO informed Republican Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey on Thursday that it agreed to his request for an investigation into offshore wind development, according to a Thursday press release from Smith’s office. At least ten dead whales had been seen in New Jersey waters or on its beaches between December 2022 and March 2023 alone, according to the Asbury Park Press. “The exact scope of what we will cover and the expected time frames will be some of the first things determined as the work gets underway,” the GAO spokesman added.
If only people were so concerned before when oil tankers ran aground and rigs failed killing hoards of wildlife, shorelines, and estuaries. Funny how times change. People don’t like new energy because it does not proffer overpaid grunt work for simpletons it requires engineers and specialized technicians.
What are you talking about 8:07
End it, mismanagement of funds. Reinvest our infrastructure and update our infrastructure. It works and we have decades of data. We are a country of over 330M folks. Thats lots and lots of windmills needed for all. Cant be just for the haves only…must include the have nots. (Who are the majority)
Big machines in motion create vibrations, which create sound. Aquatic animals who rely on sound for navigation can be confused, disoriented or acoustically and neurologically injured by the noise coming from a dozen or a hundred sources such as these in waters that have, for all of history, been free of such potentially destructive interference.