Animals Go Deaf So We Get Oil

If you’ve ever been inside a building when a fire alarm goes off, you fully understand how annoying and almost painful it is to hear the repeated sound blasting into your ears. Unfortunately, as of last week the Obama administration is okay with cetaceans experiencing something painfully similar off the coast of the Atlantic shore.

The good news: The U.S. bureau of Ocean Energy Management opened up our Atlantic coast to a new way of finding off-shore oil and gas.

The bad news: Now imagine a blast of noise 100 decibels louder then a jet engine hitting your ears every ten seconds….for an hour. How about a week? Could you last months under these circumstances?

Well, the sea life living off our Eastern coast is going to endure this nightmare beginning any day now! And Obama is okay with it!

By green lighting this method of oil exploration, the administration is not only acknowledging the adverse effects it has on ocean wildlife but opening up the possibility of a wide range of adverse affects on our coastline. These sound guns reach over 250 decibels (a jet engine is around 140), causing not only confusion but also the potential to cause serious hearing loss, death, and disrupt essential behaviors like feeding and breeding. This can even reduce catch rates of commercial fish.

The government acknowledged the fact that 138,000 marine mammals will be affected by these new sound blasts and showed little to no concern. The area in question is home to the last remaining Atlantic right whales, with only about 500 left in the wild.

Our government is pushing ahead anyways, opening up the possibility of hurting countless marine animals and inviting the higher risk of future oil spills, more polluted beaches and waters, more industrial equipment and noise pollution underwater, and the depletion of offshore corals, marine life, and fisheries.

Deepening our climate crisis further, the US government has now raised their estimated oil and gas in the Atlantic from 4.72 billion barrels to 37.51 trillion cubic feet of gas!!!

I can’t help but cringe at the future possibilities and the dangerous and sometimes irreversible effects this could have on our coast and the creatures that call it home. It’s almost hard to believe that in a world where technology makes it possible to no longer rely on fossil fuels, bureaucrats insist on perpetrating the damage to our planet in the name of the all-mighty dollar.