JUST THE NEWS: Conservative Groups Take Up ‘Save the Whales’ Cause

Over the weekend, Just the News published a report about the lawsuit brought by NLPC, CFACT and The Heartland Institute against the Biden administration and Dominion Energy over their failure to adequately protect the Atlantic Coast habitat of the right whale from offshore wind energy development. From the article:

Saving the whales was once a leading cause of left-wing environmental groups like Greenpeace. But offshore wind development has created an ironic twist in which conservative groups are now the loudest voices raising concerns about the North Atlantic right whale’s extinction.

 

The Heartland Institute, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and the National Legal and Policy Center, want to draw attention to what they say is a connection between an increase in dead whales along the East Coast and industrialization of the U.S. Coast. A new study by an independent acoustician concludes that they may be right…

 

Robert Rand, founder of the acoustics consultancy company Rand Acoustics, is trying to draw attention to what his research is showing — there is a lack of adequate protections for the whales that migrate along this corridor where all these projects are going up.

 

He told Just The News he gets little in the way of response from federal agencies that are overseeing the permitting for these projects.

 

Last year, after increases in the number of whale deaths threatened to drive the North Atlantic right whale into extinction, Rand produced an independent investigation of underwater noise levels from sonar survey vessels, which map the ocean floor for the planning of the projects…

 

With the media, the offshore wind industry and environmental groups denying any impacts to whales from offshore wind, it may be conservatives and independent researchers like Rand who end up saving the whales.

Read the full article at Just the News.

Last month NLPC produced and posted a brief explainer video about the lawsuit: