Ocean life is at risk from turbines: Ramping up wind power off British coast will cause loss of marine life by ‘urbanising the sea’, experts warn
Building large numbers of turbines will require concrete foundations in seabed
There are fears it will affect species like porpoises who are disturbed by drilling
Sand eels will even lose their sandbank habitats when the cables are laid
Efforts to quadruple wind power in the North Sea will cause loss of marine life, peers were told yesterday.
Building large numbers of turbines will require concrete foundations to be laid in the seabed and cables to connect them to the mainland.
But this will affect species such as porpoises, which are disturbed by the sound of drilling in the ocean, and sand eels, whose sandbank habitats are lost when cables are laid, the House of Lords EU environment sub-committee heard.
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