Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:41:18 AM
Can't pass up a good story on clean energy and animal deaths, even with the almighty Obama's convention going on here in Denver.
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new study show that it's not birds that are being hurt by wind turbines, it's bats.
A six-week study at two wind farms in the eastern United States recorded 1,764 and 2,900 bat fatalities. Another American project found that bat deaths outnumbered bird deaths in Montana by two to one. Though death rates in Europe are generally lower than this, extensive bat casualties have been reported in Britain.
Apparently, wind farm planners, operators, and governmental regulatory agencies were unaware that these Central Appalachia wind farms are located on bat migration areas.
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