The Truth About Offshore Wind Farms by Captain Paul Forsberg, a Commercial Angler Out Of Montauk, NY
Captain Paul Forsberg, a commercial fishermen (who comes from a long line of fishermen in Montauk), captained an offshore wind survey vessel for 8 months. He asked a lot of the hard questions and learned a great deal in the process, while piloting one of these survey ships. In the video below he covers six of the “myths” about wind farms. This is a long video, you will need to turn up your volume and pay attention. The audio is not the best but you will learn a great deal.
In the video Captain Forsberg, mentions a few links, I have these listed below.
Debunking the Offshore Wind EMF Barrier Myth
By Capt. Paul Eidman, Kyle Kingman, Submarine cable systems expert.
“The bottom line as to why EMF is extremely unlikely to cause an effect on fish behavior and or migration patterns offshore New Jersey (or elsewhere) is because modern AC submarine power cables are heavily sheathed and shielded …. ”
You Tube videos you can see about life on wind farm structure … or just search Block Island Wind Farm on You Tube.
You will find this list in the search query. There are several videos made by captains and fishermen about the block island wind farm.
Capt Chris Willi Talks Block Island Wind Farm.
I have said time and again, do research and decide for yourself but do that with factual information. Not the constant regurgitated false info being put out by several organizations.
Fish On!
Rich King
Skipjack Wind Farm Supplier Information Day for subcontractors interested in working on all the onshore construction related to Skipjack, is on February 11th. Located at the Beathany BEach OCean Suites If you work in the fields of jobs they need to fill you might want to check this out.