Where Eagles Fly, Windmills Won't Survive by Nolan Finley

A couple of comments on my last post about electric cars were right in line with this commentary by Nolan Finely of the Detroit News. This is a quick read and shows the idiocy of the left regarding energy policy and their own in-fighting about it.

The pictures, video and emphasis are that of mine and those commenter's that inspired me to post the entire article will recognize why I did so,,enjoy......

Where eagles fly, windmills won't survive

Nolan Finely

Driving along a rural highway in Hillsdale County the other day, I decided for some odd reason to fight off boredom by taking a road kill census.

On this five-mile stretch of lightly traveled two-lane road, I tallied 13 carcasses: six deer, three raccoons, a possum, a skunk and two unidentified furry blobs.

It was a nightmarish slaughter, and one, I thought to myself, that may eventually doom the automobile. No way will the defenders of the animal kingdom allow this carnage to go unanswered.

My concerns were heightened the next day by two e-mails. The first announced the suspension of a major wind farm project in North Dakota because of fears it would deplete the local bird population.

Windmills, apparently, are second only to housecats as ravagers of our winged buddies.

The second e-mail confirmed why blocking windmills, the keystone of President Barack Obama's drive to get 25 percent of America's energy from alternative sources by 2025, is urgent environmental policy.

The message linked to a snuff film from the American Bird Conservancy. It tracked the slow and unsuspecting glide of a bald eagle into the deadly path of a windmill blade. You can imagine the outcome.

CP: Not the Eagle here but the same outcome,,,,,

The video will be part of a future commercial aimed at raising awareness of green energy's bloody secret — the conservancy claims 440,000 birds a year are sliced and diced by turbines.

Across the nation, environmentalists are blocking alternative energy initiatives that are designed to replace the coal, nuclear and oil plants that are being blocked by environmentalists.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Project No Project documents scores of hydroelectric dams, windmills and solar farms that are delayed or dead because of environmental objections, many of them based on the potential harm to wildlife.

In California, a solar panel field in the Mojave Desert funded by a $2 billion federal stimulus grant is in court because it may dismay 40 endangered desert tortoises. A corn-to-ethanol plant in Minnesota is targeted because it may taint trout streams.

Nearly every state has a well-meaning green energy project at risk because of environmental concerns.

That includes Michigan, where a Lansing hybrid coal/biomass plant has been deemed not green enough.

Dams are no good because they tame wild rivers; solar panels are ugly; windmills are ugly, too, and noisy to boot; and ethanol steals corn from the mouths of the world's poor.

Coal, oil and gas warm the planet. Nuclear is swell until there's an earthquake.

And all of them in one way or the other are hard on critters.

You may rightly wonder where we'll get our electricity if clean energy is as unacceptable as dirty energy.

So back to my carcass count. If the greens are willing to sacrifice their own energy agenda in the name of protecting wildlife, wait until they notice what's going on along the nation's roadsides.

We'll all be out of our cars and onto bicycles, and our best hope for meeting our electricity needs will be harnessing the pedal power.

Unless somebody thinks we can get away with cramming billions of gerbils into exercise wheels.

 

Article: From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110407/OPINION03/104070335/Where-eagles-fly--windmills-won’t-survive#ixzz1Iuhlv8q5