Page 12 - Brian Hooker News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Officials quash rumours that wind farms could have caused the "unusual mortality" along beaches.

Brigantine council passed a resolution calling for a moratorium on offshore wind projects to study what is causing dead whales to wash up at the Jersey Shore.

Read US officials: ‘No evidence’ whale deaths connected to offshore wind surveys and other wind energy news & analysis on Windpower Monthly

I sense a disturbance in the antivaccine force. I had meant to write about it the other day, but other things intervened. Really, there’s so much pseudoscience out there at times that on some days it’s hard to decide what to tackle, and sometimes I feel as though I’m writing about vaccines too much. However, this time around I felt as though I couldn’t ignore this one because it involves two highly annoying and fact-challenged antivaccine activists and an attempt to influence a Congressional Representative.

In a hastily arranged briefing for reporters, NOAA and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management addressed a spate of whale deaths on the East Coast that some groups suspect might have been caused by site preparation work for offshore wind farms.