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Wind turbines may be killing whales. Why won’t Greenpeace admit it?

A Blue whale near a seventy-five foot boat.

The nonprofit is not enjoying being hoist by its own precautionary petard

Who cares about whales? Whales might be dying because of sonar surveying, but Greenpeace simply ignores the science that doesn’t suit it.

So far last year, seventy-one whales have washed up dead on the shores of New England and neighboring states. The rate seems to have risen in recent years along with a growth in the number of offshore wind turbines. A small group of concerned citizens have started to campaign against the turbines on behalf of the whales, and the journalist Michael Shellenberger has made a short film about their efforts called Thrown to the Wind.

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