Massachusetts residents are calling on the Supreme Court to require more analysis of how a commercial wind project under construction off the coast of Nantucket would threaten an endangered whale.
Nantucket Residents Against Turbines filed a petition late last month warning that the Biden administration had failed to consider the cumulative effects of its push to expand offshore wind development along the East Coast on the North Atlantic right whale.
Less than 340 of the marine mammals remain, and the advocacy group warned that any further loss of individual whales could have a detrimental effect on the species.
“Despite the obvious effects that constructing wind turbines all along the North Atlantic Right Whale’s migratory route and now year-round habitat will have, the agencies evaluated only the impacts caused by the Project itself and ignored obvious impacts from all the other projects planned in the Atlantic Ocean,” the group told the Supreme Court in a petition docketed Sept. 23.
