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THE DANGERS OF OFFSHORE WIND POWER
New Yorks offshore project endangers our very lives.

#1. New York’s offshore wind power project will kill whales, ground ships, endanger flight safety, and national security.

https://nypost.com/2025/04/10/opinion/how-nys-offshore-wind-power-threatens-whales-ships-and-more/

#2. New York’s ocean and shore are facing disaster, one that endangers marine life, coastal economies and national security.

#3. Smack in the middle of the New York Bight, the Empire Wind Offshore Wind Project has already begun construction and must be stopped now, before it’s too late. The New York Bight holds a crucial marine ecosystem and one of the busiest maritime zones on the East Coast. If we don’t move now, the damage will be irreversible — and America’s taxpayers are the ones who’ll foot the bill.

#4. Empire Wind has already started dumping billions of pounds, that’s tens of thousands of tons, of boulders and rocks into the ocean. These rocks are the first step to prepare the sea bed for constructing huge monopiles, the foundations upon which giant wind turbines will sit. The rocks are the first phase of a planned two-stage construction. They will destroy crucial habitat.

#5. The tons upon tons of rocks will bury vital sand shoals that serve as spawning and nursery grounds for marketable fish species. Entire fisheries and fishing communities from Massachusetts all the way down to North Carolina will be harmed. The damage to the fishing industry will be incalculable.

#6. Next month, Empire Wind will begin pile-driving gigantic 180-foot monopoles into the sea bed. The incredibly loud underwater noise and concussion will deafen, paralyze or kill untold marine life, especially endangered species like the North Atlantic right whale. Already on the verge of extinction, these whales migrate directly through the construction zone.

#7. Empire Wind’s federal permit allows the threat to these endangered marine mammals — expected to include the temporary deafness of over 300 whales in just its first year of construction. The contract allows harm to over 150 endangered Right, Fin and Sei whales which may cripple or kill them. It will destroy their ability to navigate and communicate. Up to eight whales are allowed to be permanently deafened. A deaf whale is a dead whale.

#8. Risks go far beyond endangering whales: This puts the broader Atlantic Ocean coastal economy in jeopardy. The Mid-Atlantic Bight supports a multibillion-dollar commercial and recreational fishing industry and thousands of jobs all along the coast.
#9. Undermining these sectors of the ecology and economy endangers our food security as well as our maritime cultural heritage.

#10. Our national defense and aviation safety will be put at risk.

#11. A good thing: Under its permit, Empire Wind must shut down operations immediately when ordered to do so by the Department of Defense. The FAA warns that the huge turbines may well interfere with radar at JFK, Islip and Westchester airports.

#12. Question: If this project is this dangerous, since it endangers ecology, economy, flight safety, and national security … what in Hell are doing allowing this in the first place?

#13. Who is getting the money under-the-table with this? Who is being bribed to ‘look the other way’ as this travesty continues?

#14. Consider precedent: Sweden canceled 13 offshore wind projects in November after realizing they would endanger military response to an enemy attack, as well as its detection of enemy submarines.

#15. If the United States presses forward —The project’s visual impact is impossible to ignore. Massive turbines will tower over other horizon and obstruct shipping lanes. Visible from Long Beach, NY all the way down to Long Beach, NJ., they’re gonna kill coastal tourism economies that depend on ocean views.

#16. Remember the turbine blade that broke off near Nantucket last year? It showered over 55 tons of fiberglass, plastic, and aluminum debris across four states. That closed Nantucket beaches for a week in July, delivering a devastating blow to local businesses. Imagine that happening to beach towns across Long Island and New Jersey.

#17. What do NY and NJ get for this farcical approach to ‘less than renewable’ energy? It’s a totally unreliable and phony, high-cost energy source. It still relies on fossil fuel and nuclear power to back it up when the wind isn’t strong enough … which happens a lot.

#18. And on top of this extremely expensive electricity and more reliance on unreliable sources, does anyone in America benefit? No, the Swedish company, Empire Wind, reaps the rewards while the U.S. taxpayers, especially NY and NJ taxpayers, reap the whirlwind.

#19. This year, President Trump issued an executive order aimed at protecting American fisheries and ensuring offshore wind does not undermine national interests. He must act on that order now, before Empire Wind does irreparable damages to the New York Bight. And the nation.