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The washed up carcass suggests the animals remain a favorite food source of killer whales.

And now there is fierce global debate about whether another factor could be at play in such incidents: offshore wind farms – a controversy that has set the passionately pursued ‘green’ agendas of renewable energy activists and conservationists against one another.  The finger-pointing began in February with a spate of strandings and deaths of baleen whales (the name for humpbacks, fin whales and blue whales) on America’s east coast, which some blamed on huge turbines off the US seaboard.

Blue whales have been recorded by scientists returning to the waters of Seychelles. Click to read more.

Clean energy crusaders are at loggerheads with conservationists over claims the turbines are killing cetaceans

The helpless body of a huge whale washed up on the shoreline is always a sombre sight. But the discovery of a dead 52ft fin whale on Newquay’s Fistral Beach at dawn last week was particularly depressing for locals, who have been spotting a growing number of the majestic animals off their coast in recent months. “It’s heartbreaking,” said resident Kathryn Fuller.