Whales Die, While Officials, Media, and Environmentalists Lie, by Linda Bonvie

The unacknowledged toll of green energy, from Linda Bonvie at rescue.substack.com:

“Save the Whales” is now “sacrifice the whales” to East Coast wind turbines, oil & gas drilling, and reporter lackeys for the marine-industrial complex. Sound familiar?

Samples are taken from a twenty-foot-long humpback whale that stranded in Brigantine, New Jersey, on January 12, 2023. Less than a week later, another humpback was spotted floating offshore in the same locale, followed by yet another just ten days later. (Photo by Michael McKenna) 

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In Strathmere, New Jersey, the morning of December 10, 2022, began on a somber note.

A dead whale weighing an estimated twenty tons was spotted offshore, soon moved by tide and waves to the shoreline where beachgoers took photos and videos.

Identified as a young female humpback, the thirty-foot-long cetacean was examined by experts dispatched from the Brigantine Marine Mammal Stranding Center and found to have no signs of illness or injury. Later that afternoon the local public works department brought in its heavy equipment to bury her on the beach.

Despite the fact that whale deaths happen, this particular humpback who beached herself that overcast day in Strathmere could be called Whale One. Not just a doomed marine mammal, but a creature who was the first to become emblematic of an ominous plan to industrialize the ocean as quickly as possible. A plan that has made bizarre if unacknowledged bedfellows of environmentalists and their sworn enemies who drill for fossil fuels—and a plan that makes use of the most potent greenhouse gas ever known.

The young humpback became part of a movement that began with the asking of a question: What is killing the whales and dolphins?

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