Activists in Australia have succeeded in pausing planned seismic blasting off Western Australia, which they say could deafen and ultimately kill endangered migratory whales.
Only a pause. Pathetic. I hate this fucking shithole.
In NJ lots of right wing lunatics are screaming about the offshore wind farm plans off the coast. They are blaming an increase in whales and dolphins washing up dead on the sonar scanning for the required power infrastructure on the floor.
EVERYONE harping on this here is a reactionary shithead. Are they right? Is this actually killing whales and dolphins en mass? I’m very conflicted because it kinda makes sense but these people are not arguing this in good faith - it’s screeching about Biden for doing anything even remotely green. They do not care about the whales or dolphins but they want to appear to.
sonar's pretty brutal, no doubt. concussive exploration is infinitely worse though.
You've gotta take into account the reasoning behind the surveys too one's for extractive industry whereas your lot are feigning environmentalist concern over green energy lol
Apparently idfk what I'm talking about/it's hard finding relevant info as a layperson.
Streamer vessels also tow high energy sources, principally high pressure air gun arrays that operate at 2000psi that fire together to the create a tuned energy pulse into the seabed from which the reflected energy waves are recorded on the streamer receiver groups. Gun arrays are tuned, that is the frequency response of the resulting air bubble from the array when fired can be changed depending upon the combination and number of guns in a specific array and their individual volumes. Guns can be located individual on an array or can be combined to form clusters. Typically, source arrays have a volume of 2000 cubic inches to 7000 cubic inches, but this will depend upon the specific geology of the survey area.
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It is difficult to compare reports on the effects of seismic survey noise on marine life because methods and units are often inadequately documented
I had thought there was a difference in sonar and shock exploration but maybe it's the same thing. Either way I wouldn't want to be around it, but again you'd have to consider the reason for application atop the application itself.
Yeah, ultimately in Jersey their real gripe is that these beachfront homes might be able to view the wind farm on the horizon, with binoculars, on a perfectly clear day. Clearly this is an obviously selfish and ridiculous reason to be pants-shittingly mad so they adopted the cause of the whales to vent their frothing.
I obviously hope this doesn’t harm the whales and dolphins and would accept the idea that it’s killing them if it could be proven, and also argue for action to stop or minimize this effect.
I do not want to wallow amongst the bad faith dickheads, but this state is absolutely overrun by them.
In NJ lots of right wing lunatics are screaming about the offshore wind farm plans off the coast. They are blaming an increase in whales and dolphins washing up dead on the sonar scanning for the required power infrastructure on the floor.
EVERYONE harping on this here is a reactionary shithead. Are they right? Is this actually killing whales and dolphins en mass? I’m very conflicted because it kinda makes sense but these people are not arguing this in good faith - it’s screeching about Biden for doing anything even remotely green. They do not care about the whales or dolphins but they want to appear to.
Is this shit killing cetaceans?
sonar's pretty brutal, no doubt. concussive exploration is infinitely worse though.
You've gotta take into account the reasoning behind the surveys too one's for extractive industry whereas your lot are feigning environmentalist concern over green energy lol
Apparently idfk what I'm talking about/it's hard finding relevant info as a layperson.
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I had thought there was a difference in sonar and shock exploration but maybe it's the same thing. Either way I wouldn't want to be around it, but again you'd have to consider the reason for application atop the application itself.
Yeah, ultimately in Jersey their real gripe is that these beachfront homes might be able to view the wind farm on the horizon, with binoculars, on a perfectly clear day. Clearly this is an obviously selfish and ridiculous reason to be pants-shittingly mad so they adopted the cause of the whales to vent their frothing.
I obviously hope this doesn’t harm the whales and dolphins and would accept the idea that it’s killing them if it could be proven, and also argue for action to stop or minimize this effect.
I do not want to wallow amongst the bad faith dickheads, but this state is absolutely overrun by them.