He also says his group, which uses a whale tail as its branding, has stepped back from the claim that windfarms could cause mass whale deaths.
The risk to whales has formed a core part of local campaigns against the windfarm zone, with some posters and placards showing a lifeless whale on the beach. Members of the Port Stephens fishing industry paid for a billboard for three months on a roadside showing a beached whale with turbines in the background.
“It [has] been disproven; we’re not taking the whale thing up anymore,” Abbott says.
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He also says his group, which uses a whale tail as its branding, has stepped back from the claim that windfarms could cause mass whale deaths.
The risk to whales has formed a core part of local campaigns against the windfarm zone, with some posters and placards showing a lifeless whale on the beach. Members of the Port Stephens fishing industry paid for a billboard for three months on a roadside showing a beached whale with turbines in the background.
“It [has] been disproven; we’re not taking the whale thing up anymore,” Abbott says.