Whales rely on sound to navigate the ocean, find food, and communicate with their calves and other whales. But airgun surveys used for oil and gas exploration are known to have large-scale effects on whales and can disrupt activities that are essential to their survival.
This April, 28 leading experts on the endangered North Atlantic right whale wrote to you describing the significant threat that seismic surveys pose to this species, which is one of the most endangered whales in the world and has only about 500 remaining individuals. I join these scientists in urging you to suspend permitting for seismic oil and gas surveys in the Atlantic.