RFK Jr. blasts offshore windmill farms for harming marine life as he tries to save whales and ostriches: Make no economic sense

Robert F.Kennedy Jr.

wants to save the whales along with the ostriches.The Secretary of Health & Human Services — who recently went to bat for nearly 400 ostriches threatened by the bird flu in Canada — doubled down Sunday on his contention that offshore windmills need to be banned because they threaten whales and other marine life.The offshore contraptions also are a costly bust as a clean-energy alternative to fossil fuels, Kennedy told WABC 770 AM’s the “Cats Roundtable” program.“We’ve had 109 whale groundings in the last 22 months.And they’re all in the proximity of these new offshore wind farms,” said the Kennedy scion — who once famously cut off a dead whale’s head on the beach and strapped it to the roof of the family’s car to bring it home to reportedly study it.“In the 20 years before that, the average whale grounding was 2.6 per year,” he told host John Catsimatidis.“Many of these [whales] are critically endangered species.

… We are going to exterminate these whales,” RFK Jr.said.

“When you put a windmill up, the cod disappear, the groundfish disappear.The fishermen are going out of business.”He added that many of the offshore wind companies operating in the US are foreign-owned and partner with American firms to receive massive subsidies under former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.“The energy that they produce is three times the cost of an onshore wind plant.

They make no economic sense,” Kennedy said.President Trump has already issued an executive order blocking approval of all new offshore wind projects, which are opposed by residents and elected officials in New York and New Jersey shore communities.The president did allow one controversial offshore wind project off Long Island’s coast to proceed, at the behest of Gov.Kathy Hochul and Big Apple Mayor Eric Adams.

It had already received all the necessary approvals and promised an estimated 1,000 local jobs.The project, known as Empir...