The phrase is ‘deep locations that whales visit’. My intent was to phrase it in a more precise but not necessarily more poetic way. I think the issue is that t

The phrase is ‘deep locations that whales visit’. My intent was to phrase it in a more precise but not necessarily more poetic way. I think the issue is that the mining sites are going to cause issues for whales, which in turn causes issues for mining licensing, due to the environmental portion of regulations. The whales were there first, and your version again inverts the main topic of the article, which is actually beside the point.