New pile-driving technologies promise to tame the unruly noise of installing shallow-water windfarms.
Now we’re getting somewhere! (v.2.0)
Tag: atlantic
Whale-Ship strikes expanded
Wading into a thicket of informed speculation here; the distinction between the ship-strikes and cuts are likely due to how the various animals dwell in their respective habitats, and how they respond to threats.
How do migrating birds fly so far, so fast?
It is through their meteorological skills that blackpoll warblers can use 200mph (320kph) tailwinds to hurl their tiny little bodies 3.500 km (2,175 miles) over open ocean!
Offshore wind and habitat changes
As we start installing these many offshore wind projects over the next 30 years, we will be rapidly transforming habitats that marine life has been adapting to since the beginning of biological time.
Keeping the fires lit under the Seismic Survey Proposal
We’re not really waiting for the smoke to settle on the Incidental Harassment Authorizations (IHAs) issued a week ago last Friday before sharing with you what to do next. We’re actually enjoying watching the continuing conflagration – for the simple…
False Flags and Foul Intentions
Francisco Goya – El Bobilicon from “Los Desperates” 1864 Over the last few weeks the entire world has been staring aghast at our southern border as agents from our Customs and Border Patrol were tearing children away from their…
Regulators rapidly kicking the can down the road
I’ve just returned from Washington DC educating legislators and questioning regulators over an ominous situation in the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Since 2014 there has been a “full court press” by the oil industry and their friends in…
BOEM’s eggs are hatching chickens
Back in August of 2014 the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) attempted to mitigate public outrage for a hastily made decision on opening up the US Atlantic continental shelf to seismic surveys by publishing an unsubstantiated puff piece on…
BOEM’s egg laying – and what you can do
Our last newsletter about a private meeting between Government officials and the oil industry seems to have struck some nerves – in our community, and in the governmental officials who are either backpedaling, or sheepishly looking at the corners of…
BOEM lays another egg
Last week the Governor Pat McCrory of North Carolina called a closed meeting to discuss drilling plans for the coast off his state. Gov. McCrory is an elected official of the state of N. Carolina, so what he does with…