[All] Fire in the Sky!

[Peter Kofler]

Have you tried doing a simple search using criteria like "bat fatalities"? I got dozens of hits using Google, but it doesn't matter which search engine you're using. You'll find that wind turbine operators and interest groups are studying this phenomenon all over North America and beyond. As it turns out, considerable work is in progress and has, in fact, been published. 
Wind turbine operators are concerned about it, and it is a critical issue along major migratory flyways like Wolfe Island, but I suspect the fatality numbers pale in comparison with, for example, white nose disease. Humans are implicated as one of the vectors of this fungal disease, thought to have been imported from Europe, where bat populations seem to have developed an immunity to it.
As far as bird fatalities go, see the attached link: http://www.sibleyguides.com/conservation/causes-of-bird-mortality/ to put things into perspective. Wind turbines are way down the list of possible causes of fatalities but this, too is being studied closely by wind turbine operators and others and there are published studies to attest to this. The top 3 causes of bird fatalities as listed in the referenced link? - Windows, feral cats and high tension wires. 
Where's the outcry against windows/buildings, cats and high tension wires?
PK


> From: neiletaylor at sympatico.ca
> To: all at gren.ca
> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 20:15:13 -0500
> Subject: [All] Fire in the Sky!
> 
> Bats are huge victims of this "clean energy option", however little has been
> published about this.
> 
> Neil (E. Taylor)
> 
> From: all-bounces at gren.ca [mailto:all-bounces at gren.ca] On Behalf Of
> rabrosius at gmail.com
> Sent: March-06-12 5:06 PM
> To: Andrea Chappell; all-bounces at gren.ca; all at gren.ca
> Subject: Re: [All] FW: Fw: Fire in the Sky!
> 
> Andrea,
> 
> Good work! There's always a bit beyond what meets the eye, and this kind of
> story is easily planted to undermine clean energy options.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry Torch on Bell Mobility.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:21:10 
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> Subject: Re: [All] FW: Fw: Fire in the Sky!
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