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herslave2 t1_j6p03w8 wrote

Just another waste of our money. Look at the NJTPK tearing down all the service areas. Really its just a ploy to spend money because if they don't then they can't keep raising the tolls! There was nothing wrong with the service areas. And they could put 4 more Tunnels up the problem is on the NYC side because of the Traffic going into the City it dumps you right into all traffic lights.

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jarrettbrown t1_j6ozcls wrote

A few surfers that I follow over on Instagram have been linking groups that are basically blaming the turbines even though they aren't up yet. They're blaming the stuff leading up to the construction. I guess that it's plausible, but the thing that doesn't make sense here, at least to me, is that NOAA and the company that is doing the mapping both agree that isn't in the range of the whales, but who knows at this point. Some of these whales could be in the same range as the sonar used by the boat, so it might be the cause or it might be something else.

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pe_grumbly t1_j6owykg wrote

If, like me, you were wondering, "is there anything to this?" -- there does not seem to be any evidence for it.

More significantly, there appear to have been an increased number of whale deaths all the way up and down the east coast:
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-life-distress/2016-2023-humpback-whale-unusual-mortality-event-along-atlantic-coast

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