The silence from traditional conservation groups against the wind industry’s rampant bird slaughter is deafening.
Once upon a time, hirsute, hair-shirted and sandal wearing tree huggers would die in a ditch to prevent harm to any of God’s other creatures. That was, of course, before industrial wind power hove into view. Groups like the Sierra Club and the UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds are all ‘fire and brimstone’ wherever ‘big business’ threatens our avian fauna. Except, that is, if the ‘big business’ in question is heavily subsidised, and chaotically intermittent wind power. It’s all about “saving the planet”, you see…
So, it’s a rare and beautiful thing when a couple of conservation groups get on the front foot.
In order to prevent the inevitable slaughter of millions of birds across the Great Lakes, the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and the Black Swamp Bird Observatory (BSBO) have launched…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Jan 12, 2020 @ 11:20:13
coal fired stations kllls more, high rise buildings even more not to mention aeroplanes. This blog is very ignorant
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Jan 12, 2020 @ 13:36:30
Wind provides 0% on base load
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Jan 12, 2020 @ 14:52:19
Baseload only important if the State owns the grin.
dispatchable power more important if the private sector does.
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