Posted on 07/04/2010 9:01:25 AM PDT by icwhatudo
A group of Western Maryland residents and a state conservation group have filed formal notice they'll sue to stop construction of a wind farm in Garrett County, contending the massive turbines "almost certainly" will harm endangered bats in the forested, mountainous region.
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We need a bat tax on energy is all.
Good point.
The enviro-radicals are against nuclear power, against oil drilling, against oil shale mining, against coal mining, against hydroelectric project, and against wind farms.
They are in favor of electric cars, but are against the process of generating the huge volume of electricity we would need to generate to run those cars.
They are in favor of solar energy as long as individual homes and businesses have them. But they are against large solar projects in the middle of nowhere, which allegedly hurt the environment in some way.
I always have to laugh when enviros want more electric cars or electricity to replace fossil fuels. They seem shocked if you explain that electricity has to be generated in power plants, many of which run on fossil fuels. So if we have tens of millions of electric cars in this country, we would have to generate much more electric power, and likely have to mine much more coal, to run the power plants.
This goes to show that there are trade-offs involved with anything. But the child-like thinking of the enviro-radicals doesn’t allow them to understand that trade-offs are a fact of life.
We love “our” bats!
We feed them with mosquitoes from the pond across the road, and enjoy the display from our porch as they chase the bugs down.
Bats are cool. If these idjits was thinkin’, they’d install electric lights away from the area and draw the bats to the insects that the lights attracted.
There’s still the rabies thing, bats being mammals.
All our pets, or owners, are protected, of course.
I keep thinking I should do the same.
I don’t think I even want to discuss it with the boss, since she’d take severe offense...
Maybe these folks woud approve of the idea of having a few dead tires around on their land so they could breed mosquitos for the bats, to offset the effects of the turbs?
A bat can turn and burn with a mosquito in pitch darkness. I very much doubt that they are going to blindly bump into giant fan blades.
I think the bats are smarter than these lunies! They will just fly a different path. (Actually, I’ve never seen bats fly high enough to be affected by a windmill.)
Does anyone take these idiots seriously any more?
Bats behaving normally aren’t a rabies hazard. When I was a teenager, we stopped at a rest-stop on one of our many trips and I didn’t see any reason to get out. After a couple of minutes my sister said “Come check out this bat...it’s just walking around.” Told her to get the hell away from it.
And if you've ever tried to catch a bat with a net, you find out how good they are at avoiding things.
Judges do (sadly)
The same tactic killed a fully permited windfarm project in Indiana.
They are not called ‘envirowacko’ for nothing.....=.=
We actually 'grow' these people - in our public schools, colleges and universities. They are usually the more simple-minded, easily persuaded via the vanity of their own self-interested opinions of themselves. They are a deficient people who have deep psychological problems that manifest themselves into something about preservation of this and that when it really all boils down to 'just them' and their lopsided view of their impact on this world. They contribute nothing, they produce nothing, and they solve NOTHING.
...got a hunch they might be using bats as cover...Garrett Co is a nice area in the mountains...people who have cabins and vacation homes out there don’t want to live next to a windmill...those things sound like somebody swinging a rope over your head.
Excellent observation.
>>>Bats are cool. If these idjits was thinkin’, they’d install electric lights away from the area and draw the bats to the insects that the lights attracted.<<<<<
That wouldnt work. The lights would use up all the energy these pathetic fans would put out.
You're darn right the people that live there don't want them but we are just peasants, don't have the pull of a kennedy or a kerry.
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