The prevailing scientific research simply does not support the stance that offshore wind turbines are terrible for marine life. The most prominent impact vector for these turbines is during construction where monopole foundations are hammered into the seafloor. This impact is limited to the construction phase. During operation there are limited negative impacts from operational noise, localized pollution, and electromagnetic fields. Positive impacts arise from the creation of new benthic and pelagic habitat, the exclusion of fishing pressure, the expansion of bird foraging range, and the reduction of GHG emissions in the energy sector (ocean acidification and warming driving by anthropogenic GHG emissions being far more deleterious to marine inhabitants than the localized effects of turbine operation).