The Oil Industry Is Helping to Spread Misinfo About Whale Deaths

A Brown University study found that organized opposition to wind energy was fueled by extensive “information” from the fossil fuel industry.

“…there isn’t even a grain of truth to the alleged wind-whale connection: According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the increase in whale deaths has a number of other causes, mainly an increase in collisions with boats and entanglement in fishing nets. Ironically, this problem stems from two key players in the anti-wind coalition mapped by this new study: the fishing industry and, of course, the fossil fuel industry itself. Some of these problems are related to climate change; some whales are feeding closer to shore as the warming of the ocean has led to changes in their food sources, putting them perilously close to human activities that can harm them.”

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