Article 6F34E Trump falsely claims wind turbines lead to whale deaths by making them ‘batty’

Trump falsely claims wind turbines lead to whale deaths by making them ‘batty’

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Oliver Milman in New York
from Environment | The Guardian on (#6F34E)

Ex-president attacks clean energy by making multiple false statements at South Carolina rally

Donald Trump has launched a lengthy and largely baseless attack on wind turbines for causing large numbers of whales to die, claiming that windmills" are making the cetaceans crazy" and a little batty".

Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, used a rally in South Carolina to assert that while there was only a small chance of killing a whale by hitting it with a boat, their windmills are causing whales to die in numbers never seen before. No one does anything about that."

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