There is a major spat brewing between two different wings (no pun intended) of the Environmental Moonbat Society. On one side you have the Global Warming Cultists and in the other corner you have the group trying to save the birds.
Wind energy is one of the main dreams of the global warming group, they see it as a future major supplier of electricity. They may be right, but that future is many decades away. Possibly the most controversial wind energy project in the US is a wind farm off of Cape Cod. The project was delayed for years because environmentalist Ted Kennedy didn't want the windmills in the sight of his Hyannis Port home and there is still a movement to stop the project by residents of the Cape.
Today, some "save the birds" people have gotten involved. They filed a lawsuit saying the federal agencies responsible for approving the wind farm off Cape Cod violated federal law by endangering protected migratory birds. The suit claims that the required scientific studies were not done and that protective measures were ignored in approving the 130-turbine project in Nantucket Sound.
A lawyer for the plaintiffs says "science was manipulated and suppressed for political reasons." Spokespeople for the federal agencies did not immediately return calls.The "save the birds" people have a point . A recent study in Klickitat County, Washington shows that active wind farms in Washington and Oregon kill more than 6,500 birds and 3,000 bats annually.Talk about unintended consequences.
Since the project was approved in April, opponents of the project have said they would mount legal challenges to block it.
Biologist Orah Zamora spends her days walking around wind turbines in search of dead birds and bats. Most of her surveys turn up nothing, but every once in a while she finds a carcass that may have been felled by a whirring blade.Not registering an opinion are the the environmentalists who work to prevent drilling because of potential threats to sea life.
"It's like a crime scene, and you try to figure out what happened. Sometimes, it's really obvious because you see a slice mark," Zamora says.
Zamora's monitoring at the Windy Flats project is part of a larger series of surveys to assess how the wind-power boom is impacting birds that must now share air space with the towering turbines.
There is only one way to solve this, a cage match. Let them duke it out, the global warming moon bats vs. the bird crazies, no holds barred.
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