Thursday, October 27, 2011
"Windmills to shut at night following demise of rare bat"
Some say our use of fossil fuels harms the environment.
Unfortunately, the wind power alternative seems to affect the environment in a different way...
Unfortunately, the wind power alternative seems to affect the environment in a different way...
Kathy Mellott has another of those windpower stories in Johnstown, PA's Tribune-Democrat.com:
"Night operation of the windmills in the North Allegheny Windpower Project has been halted following discovery of a dead Indiana bat under one of the turbines, an official with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday.
The finding marks only the second location where an Indiana bat has been found dead under a wind turbine. Two Indiana bats were found under turbines in the Mid-west, said Clint Riley, supervisor for Fish and Wildlife’s Pennsylvania field office.
'While finding the dead bat is not good news for any of us, it does show the monitoring works,' Riley said from his State College office.
The find is significant because the Indiana bat is an endangered species and is protected by the federal Endangered Species Act.
The 35-windmill farm was built by Gamesa Energy USA in Portage, Washington and Cresson townships in Cambria County and extends across the line into Blair County."
