The group Greenpeace has stated efforts to stop offshore wind development are part of a "cynical disinformation campaign" that is not based on scientific evidence.Įarlier this week New Jersey State Senators Vince Polistina, R-Atlantic, and Jim Holzapfel, R-Ocean, along with Assembly representatives Greg McGuckin and John Catalano, both R-Ocean, called on the governor to temporarily halt offshore wind-related work out in the Atlantic Ocean.ĭavid Matthau is a reporter for New Jersey 101.5. Phil Murphy, along with the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions and other environmental groups, insist suggestions that the whale deaths are in any way linked to plans to construct a giant wind farm out in the Atlantic are misguided.
These suggestions are misguided, according to the governor Some environmental groups and a growing number of Republican elected officials are calling for a halt to all offshore wind development activity until it can be determined if there is a link between the work and the whale deaths. On Monday, another dead whale washed ashore between Manasquan and Point Pleasant Beach, the ninth whale carcass that has been found on a beach along the New Jersey and New York coast since December.
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