The environmental movement thought they had a perfect ally in Robert Kennedy Jr.
They were dead wrong.
And Robert Kennedy Jr. revealed one awful reality about wind farms that has the green lobby panicking.
Whale deaths skyrocket near offshore wind projects
Robert Kennedy Jr. isn’t your typical Trump cabinet member when it comes to environmental issues.
As Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kennedy has decades of experience as an environmental lawyer fighting corporate polluters.
But now he’s taking aim at what many consider the crown jewel of clean energy policy.
During a recent appearance on WABC 770 AM’s “Cats Roundtable” program, Kennedy delivered devastating statistics about marine life deaths.
The numbers paint a horrifying picture of what’s really happening in our oceans.
Kennedy told host John Catsimatidis that whale deaths have exploded since offshore wind construction began ramping up.
“We’ve had 109 whale groundings in the last 22 months. And they’re all in the proximity of these new offshore wind farms,” Kennedy revealed.
The contrast with historical data is staggering.
“In the 20 years before that, the average whale grounding was 2.6 per year,” he explained.
That represents a massive increase that directly correlates with the offshore wind industry’s expansion along American coastlines.
Kennedy warned that endangered species are paying the ultimate price for green energy ideology.
“Many of these [whales] are critically endangered species,” Kennedy stated. “We are going to exterminate these whales.”
The destruction extends throughout the entire marine ecosystem according to Kennedy’s findings.
“When you put a windmill up, the cod disappear, the groundfish disappear. The fishermen are going out of business,” he said.
Foreign corporations exploit American taxpayers
Kennedy uncovered another layer of corruption in the offshore wind scheme.
These projects aren’t even benefiting American companies in many cases.
Foreign-owned wind companies are partnering with American firms to access massive government subsidies from Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.
The economics make no sense for American consumers and taxpayers.
“The energy that they produce is three times the cost of an onshore wind plant. They make no economic sense,” Kennedy declared.
So Americans are subsidizing foreign corporations to build overpriced energy projects that are destroying marine life and coastal fishing communities.
It’s exactly the kind of globalist grift that President Trump promised to end.
Trump moves to protect marine life
President Trump wasted no time addressing this environmental disaster.
He issued an executive order halting approval of new offshore wind projects across the country.
Trump made an exception for one Long Island project called Empire Wind 1 at the urging of New York officials including Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams.
That project had already cleared all regulatory hurdles and promised to create approximately 1,000 jobs locally.
But even that decision faces fierce opposition from Nassau County leaders who share Kennedy’s concerns about marine life protection.
Trump has been vocal about his opposition to offshore wind development.
“We’re not going to do the wind thing,” Trump stated. “Big, ugly windmills, they ruin your neighborhood.”
The president didn’t mince words about the environmental impact either.
“They destroy everything, they’re horrible, the most expensive energy there is,” Trump continued. “They ruin the environment, they kill the birds, they kill the whales.”
Kennedy maintains regular communication with Trump about stopping these projects.
“[I speak to Trump] all the time” about opposing offshore windmills, Kennedy said.
Kennedy’s environmental credentials include successfully blocking an offshore wind farm proposal near his family’s Cape Cod compound when he worked as an environmental attorney.
Kennedy fights government overreach on ostriches
Kennedy’s environmental activism extends beyond marine protection.
He’s currently battling Canadian bureaucrats over the planned slaughter of nearly 400 ostriches.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency wants to kill hundreds of birds at the Universal Ostrich Farm in British Columbia to prevent bird flu spread.
Kennedy sees this as another example of government overreach and wasted scientific opportunity.
The ostriches survived bird flu exposure and could provide valuable research insights.
“We want to get antibodies out of them. They survived bird flu. Why did they survive?” Kennedy asked during the radio interview.
“We need to know that because there are a lot of other birds that died from it.”
Dr. Oz, who serves as administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has offered his Florida ranch as a sanctuary for the threatened birds.
Kennedy blamed the planned culling on “bureaucratic corruption” and power-hungry officials.
The irony is rich that liberal environmentalists who claim to champion wildlife protection are suddenly silent when their precious wind farms start killing whales.
Kennedy represents what genuine environmental stewardship looks like when it’s not corrupted by political ideology and corporate profits.
His willingness to challenge both offshore wind profiteering and government overreach shows the difference between real conservation and virtue-signaling green politics.
