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Wind Turbines Kill a Few Birds
Guppy06 writes "The Houston Chronicle has an article about how a 7000-turbine windfarm in Altamont Pass, California (the world's largest collection) has killed an estimated 22,000 birds during the past 20 years or so of operation, 'including hundreds of golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, kestrels and other raptors(.)' There are efforts to keep the operators from renewing their permit until they take measures to protect bird populations. To put things in perspective the article goes on to point out that the Exxon Valdez spill is estimated to have killed around 250,000, while the whole story can just about be summed up by one quote by a biologist: 'When you turn on your lights you kill something, no matter what the source of electricity.'" Killing 3-4 birds per day doesn't seem too bad. It's a shame that larger, rarer birds are getting killed, but... How many birds would die from the acid rain that a coal power plant would cause?
How many people did YOUR GOVERNMENT kill today, huh?
Think about it.
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
Back in non-liberal reality, I bet a coroner has never ever anywhere written "pollution" on a death certificate.
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What about the ones that get sucked into it?
....the eco-nuts now have a problem with WIND POWER too?
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So basically you're an environmentalist who doesn't care too much about the environment?
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do you scream in pain when your toe or fingernails are clipped? it's not any different for the chicken with a clipped beak. It's also obvious that you've bought the PETA lies about how animals are raised.
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