Thanks for posting.

For them it is a safe harbor.

but I wouldn't call them charismatic!

So few of them left I think scientists know each one.

There is still alot of shipping going into/out of the Port of New York/New Jersey. Which is concerning as occasionally even Humpbacks get hit. Hopefully the Rights will steer clear.

http://gothamist.com/2014/06/19/rockaway_beach_gas_pipeline.php

Jun 19, 2014

A year and a half after Hurricane Sandy swept surging seas over the Rockaway spit, the neighborhood is finally beginning to claw its way back to a normal summer. Fort Tilden beach, closed to the public last summer season due to dangerous debris left by the storm, has finally reopened. And what better way to celebrate the partial recovery from a climate-change-fueled Superstorm than by laying a high-pressure fracked-gas transmission pipeline right under the beach?

At this very moment, work is underway on the Rockaway Lateral Project, a giant 26-inch diameter pipeline that will bring 647,000 dekatherms per day of fracked natural gas from the Marcellus Shale, under high pressure, beneath the beach, under a golf course, under the Marine Parkway Bridge, through Floyd Bennett Field, and into a new meter and regulator station in an old hangar at the airfield before connecting to distribution lines running up Flatbush Avenue into Brooklyn.

After all the noise about the Keystone XL and the Spectra Pipeline, the Rockaway Lateral is the pipeline no one has heard about. That’s partly because it doesn’t run through the back yards of any private property owners, whose NIMBY opposition often make up the majority of the popular resistance to new pipeline construction. Instead, this pipeline runs exclusively through federal property—specifically, the Gateway National Recreation Area.

Ordinarily, it’s pretty hard for gas companies to lay pipe through taxpayer-protected parkland. But less than a month after Sandy, ethically embattled and all-around-reasonable guy Rep. Michael Grimm pushed a law through Congress granting an energy company the right to do just that. At the time, the giveaway went mostly unremarked in the Rockaways. “People had just been flooded,” says Clare Donohue of the Sane Energy Project, which opposes the new pipeline. “They were displaced. They had more immediate fish to fry.”

Send them back... send them all back NOW

send a Klingon Bird of Prey out there and take several of them to the 23rd century. Rebuild the species.

They ain't rabbits, you know.

Whales need a lot of space.

I get the feeling that this is not all that good for this species. A lot of pollutants, busy shipping lanes...


Maybe they are coming to tell the NYC hoomin population some profound message about clean water and ocean warming. Wouldn't that be interesting if the wildlife started talking to us directly?