Do Offshore Wind Towers Actually Improve Aquatic Habitats?

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We need to be extremely skeptical anytime we hear someone say, “Here’s a man-made change I’m going to make into a natural habitat that is actually going to help the native species thrive.” This is normally equivalent to saying, “I haven’t even begun to think about the possible unintended consequence of what I’m doing, but I think you’re too stupid to challenge my totally outrageous statement.”

For this reason, I’m dubious of the claim that offshore wind turbines serve to improve the aquatic environments in which they’re constructed.  Sure, all structures support the development of invertebrate life, e.g., mussels, and fish actually love to gather around, not only to suck on the mussels, but to hide from predators.  Yet aren’t there dozens of things we’re not considering here?

There may be, and the short video you’re about to watch provides only anecdotal evidence of the salubrious effect of offshore wind towers on the habitats in which they’re built, but this is worth considering nonetheless.