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02 Mar 2004 HEADLINE


SYNOPSIS: 44-turbine wind farm in migratory route of Indiana red bats

Source: Scientific American
Class: SYNDICATED NEWS

Wind Power and Bats Collide in West Virgina

GREEN ENERGY meets red bats, the mammals seem to lose. Some wind farms are finding this species of bat, as well as many others, dead on their properties. Such discoveries could threaten planned wind farms and force revisions in the way turbines are sited

The interaction of bats and wind turbines is emerging as a major and unexpected problem in northern Appalachia. From mid-August through October 2003, during the fall migration period, at least 400 bats died at FPL Energy's 44-turbine Mountaineer Wind Energy Center on Backbone Mountain in West Virginia

The bats apparently died by colliding with the wind turbines, but why so many animals were killed at this particular site remains a mystery. The public outcry over these numbers threatens to delay or halt construction of some of the additional several hundred wind turbines planned for the tri-state region of West Virginia, western Maryland and south-central Pennsylvania

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