WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:0 00:01.152 --> 00:02.027 THEIR OWNERS. 00:02.028 --> 00:03.394 AINSLEY, TAKE IT AWAY. 00:03.405 --> 00:04.635 >> Ainsley: THANK YOU SO MUCH, 00:04.636 --> 00:05.580 BRIAN. 00:05.581 --> 00:07.678 WAVES OF DISSENT FISHERMEN AND 00:07.689 --> 00:09.970 ACTIVISTS TAKING TO WATERS TO 00:09.971 --> 00:11.848 PROTEST THE OFFSHORE WIND FARMS 00:11.859 --> 00:13.513 CITING CONCERNS OVER WHALES 00:13.514 --> 00:15.137 WATCHING UP ON OUR BEACHES. 00:15.138 --> 00:16.692 NEXT GUEST SAYS STOP BUILDING 00:16.703 --> 00:17.655 THEM UNTIL MORE RESEARCH IS 00:17.656 --> 00:18.780 DONE. 00:18.782 --> 00:23.536 LET’S BRING IN THE PRESIDENT OF 00:23.570 --> 00:24.886 COMMITTEE FOR CONSTRUCTIVE 00:24.897 --> 00:26.067 TOMORROW CRAIG RUTGER. 00:26.078 --> 00:27.603 GOOD MORNING TO YOU, CRAIG. 00:27.614 --> 00:28.793 >> GOOD MORNING, AINSLEY. 00:28.804 --> 00:30.042 PLEASURE TO BE ON YOUR PROGRAM. 00:30.043 --> 00:30.996 >> Ainsley: NICE TO HAVE YOU ON 00:30.997 --> 00:31.455 HERE. 00:31.490 --> 00:33.221 WHY EXACTLY ARE YOU AGAINST THE 00:33.232 --> 00:34.057 OFFSHORE WIND FARMS? 00:34.068 --> 00:36.114 >> WE ORGANIZED THIS PROTEST TO 00:36.148 --> 00:37.926 TRY TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THE 00:37.928 --> 00:39.079 VERY HEAVY ENVIRONMENTAL 00:39.081 --> 00:40.290 FOOTPRINT THAT OFFSHORE WIND HAS 00:40.291 --> 00:41.959 ON OUR EASTERN COAST. 00:41.970 --> 00:43.985 RIGHT NOW THE BIDEN 00:44.020 --> 00:46.076 ADMINISTRATION WANTS TO PUT UP 00:46.087 --> 00:47.932 30,000 MEGAWATTS OF OFFSHORE 00:47.966 --> 00:49.923 WIND BETWEEN NOW AND 2030, I 00:49.934 --> 00:51.425 GUESS THEY BELIEVE THE WORLD IS 00:51.459 --> 00:54.376 GOING TO END IN SIX AND A HALF 00:54.378 --> 00:55.499 YEARS LIKE AOC FROM CLIMATE 00:55.510 --> 00:56.420 CHANGE. 00:56.431 --> 00:59.428 THIS MEANS PUTTING UP 1,500 WIND 00:59.462 --> 01:01.524 TURBINES STRETCH FROM THE 01:01.535 --> 01:03.045 CAROLINAS RIGHT UP TO NEW 01:03.047 --> 01:03.499 ENGLAND. 01:03.533 --> 01:05.755 AND THEY ARE PUTTING THESE 01:05.756 --> 01:07.891 OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES ABOUT 15 01:07.902 --> 01:10.391 TO 30 MILES OFF THE COAST RIGHT 01:10.402 --> 01:12.417 IN THE PRIME HABITAT, IN THE 01:12.428 --> 01:14.142 LANES THAT A NUMBER OF SPECIES 01:14.176 --> 01:16.487 OF WHALES USE TO GO NORTH AND 01:16.488 --> 01:17.792 SOUTH UP AND DOWN ALONG OUR 01:17.803 --> 01:18.576 COAST. 01:18.587 --> 01:22.252 OF PARTICULAR CONCERN IS THE 01:22.286 --> 01:24.452 WHITE WHALE ONLY 350 SO 01:24.453 --> 01:26.101 REMAINING IN THE WILD. 01:26.103 --> 01:27.121 CRITICALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES. 01:27.132 --> 01:28.673 THE SOUNDS THAT COME FROM 01:28.674 --> 01:29.864 TURBINES ARE A PARTICULAR 01:29.875 --> 01:32.522 CONCERN BOTH IN THE CONSTRUCTION 01:32.533 --> 01:33.982 PHASE AND IN THE OPERATION 01:33.984 --> 01:34.472 PHASE. 01:34.507 --> 01:36.500 SINCE THEY HAVE STARTED SONAR 01:36.502 --> 01:38.053 BLASTING, WHICH GOES BACK IN 01:38.064 --> 01:40.019 2016, RIGHT UP TO TODAY WHERE 01:40.020 --> 01:42.760 THEY ARE DOING PILE DRIVING, 01:42.771 --> 01:44.166 USING THESE HYDRAULIC HAMMERS, 01:44.167 --> 01:46.950 LOT OF NOISE SOMETHING CREATED 01:46.951 --> 01:48.707 AND SEEN UNPRECEDENTED NUMBER OF 01:48.741 --> 01:49.916 WHALES BEACH THEMSELVES ALONG 01:49.918 --> 01:50.518 THE SHORES. 01:50.529 --> 01:52.589 IN FACT SOME ESTIMATE THERE HAS 01:52.590 --> 01:54.419 BEEN ABOUT 400 PERCENT INCREASE 01:54.430 --> 01:56.301 IN WHALE BEACHINGS AND WHALE 01:56.312 --> 01:57.807 STRIKES SINCE THEY HAVE BEGUN 01:57.818 --> 01:59.276 THE OFFSHORE WIND CONSTRUCTION. 01:59.287 --> 02:00.963 WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE A 02:00.997 --> 02:02.080 MORATORIUM PLACED ON THESE 02:02.081 --> 02:03.886 THINGS UNTIL FURTHER STUDIES CAN 02:03.897 --> 02:04.357 BE DONE. 02:04.368 --> 02:06.206 >> Ainsley: I KNOW YOU WERE ONE 02:06.241 --> 02:07.988 OF THE ONES, YOU SENT THOSE 02:07.990 --> 02:10.475 THREE BOATS OUT TO THE SOUTH 02:10.486 --> 02:12.718 FORK WIND FARM AND HOLDING UP 02:12.719 --> 02:15.391 THE SIGN STOP THE WINDMILLS AND 02:15.392 --> 02:16.410 SAVE WHALES. 02:16.411 --> 02:18.335 SHOUTING WITH BULL HORNS TO STOP 02:18.346 --> 02:18.844 CONSTRUCTION. 02:18.878 --> 02:21.178 I FEEL LIKE ACTIVISTS THEY WANT 02:21.189 --> 02:22.647 TO SAVE THE WHALES AND LOBSTERS 02:22.649 --> 02:23.782 BUT KIND OF DEPENDS ON WHATEVER 02:23.793 --> 02:24.619 THEIR ISSUE IS. 02:24.620 --> 02:26.015 SOMETIMES THEY WANT TO AND IN 02:26.016 --> 02:27.729 THIS CASE THEY DON’T? 02:27.740 --> 02:29.256 >> YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. 02:29.290 --> 02:31.694 I WAS OUT ON THE BOATS THERE. 02:31.696 --> 02:33.733 IT WAS A ROCKY SEA. 02:33.734 --> 02:35.139 ABOUT 25 MILES OUT INTO THE 02:35.140 --> 02:35.430 OCEAN. 02:35.441 --> 02:37.363 WE FIND THAT A LOT OF GROUPS 02:37.374 --> 02:39.171 THAT ARE GREEN ORGANIZATIONS 02:39.172 --> 02:40.958 ACTUALLY ARE SILENT ON THIS. 02:40.992 --> 02:42.548 >> Ainsley: CRAIG, WHAT IS’ YOUR 02:42.550 --> 02:43.355 WEBSITE BECAUSE WE ARE RUNNING 02:43.357 --> 02:44.501 OUT OF TIME. 02:44.512 --> 02:46.204 IF PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN THIS 02:46.205 --> 02:50.409 WHERE CAN THEY GO? 02:50.420 --> 02:51.465 >> CFACT.ORG. 02:51.467 --> 02:52.874 THANK YOU SO MUCH, CRAIG.