Wind farms vs wildlife
The shocking environmental cost of renewable energy
By Clive Hambler ~ 5 January 2013
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Wind farms vs wildlife By Clive Hambler ~ 5 January 2013 Please read the whole article HERE |
Wind turbines only last for ‘half as long as previously thought’, according to a new study. But even in their short lifespans, those turbines can do a lot of damage. Wind farms are devastating populations of rare birds and bats across the world, driving some to the point of extinction. Most environmentalists just don’t want to know. Because they’re so desperate to believe in renewable energy, they’re in a state of denial. But the evidence suggests that, this century at least, renewables pose a far greater threat to wildlife than climate change.
I’m a lecturer in biological and human sciences at Oxford university. I trained as a zoologist, I’ve worked as an environmental consultant.... Though I started out neutral on renewable energy, I’ve since seen the havoc wreaked on wildlife by wind power, hydro power, biofuels and tidal barrages. The environmentalists who support such projects do so for ideological reasons. What few of them have in their heads, though, is the consolation of science.
My specialty is species extinction.When I was a child, my father used to tell me about all the animals he’d seen growing up in Kent — the grass snakes, the lime hawk moths — and what shocked me when we went looking for them was how few there were left. Species extinction is a serious issue: around the world we’re losing up to 40 [species] a day. Yet environmentalists are urging us to adopt technologies that are hastening this process. Among the most destructive of these is wind power.
Every year in Spain alone — according to research by the conservation group SEO/Birdlife — between 6 and 18 million birds and bats are killed by wind farms.... In north America, wind farms are killing tens of thousands of raptors including golden eagles and America’s national bird, the bald eagle.......proposed wind farms on the Great Lakes would kill large numbers of migratory songbirds.
Why is the public not more aware of this carnage? First, because the wind industry (with the shameful complicity of some ornithological organisations) has gone to great trouble to cover it up — to the extent of burying the corpses of victims. Second, because the ongoing obsession with climate change.... Climate change won’t drive those species to extinction; well-meaning environmentalists might.
Source: http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8807761/wind-farms-vs-wildlife/#.UOhKWytD024.email
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