Hawaii - Wind Farms Want Permission To Kill More Bats -- A Lot More

[OnlinePoker]

Wind turbines are proving to be more of a menace than expected to opeapea — endangered Hawaiian hoary bats, the islands’ only native land mammal.

As a result, three wind energy farms are requesting increases in the amount of bats they are allowed to “take.”

“Take,” according to the Endangered Species Act, includes harassing, harming, pursuing, hunting, shooting, wounding, killing, trapping, capturing or collecting the animals.

In 2012, the farms received federal and state permits that allowed them to take a designated number of the bats. Two of permits were supposed to be in effect for 20 years, the third for 25. Combined, they were allowed to take 92 during those periods, but they have already exceeded that number.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2018/08/wind-farms-want-permission-to-kill-more-bats-a-lot-more/

[dlk]

1. Bats Kill Mosquitoes - Something to Think About

[Merlot]

2. How many more bats will die from climate change?

[Duppers]

3. No.

There has to be another way than:

"Take,” according to the Endangered Species Act, includes harassing, harming, pursuing, hunting, shooting, wounding, killing, trapping, capturing or collecting the animals.

"Trapping, capturing" perhaps to relocate but not destroying these animals.

[hunter]

4. That's a good reason to oppose them.

If you are destroying nature in order to "save" it, you're not doing it right.

[ROB-ROX]

5. TIME TO USE NETS

The wind farm area could be shielded with a huge NET. The bats will "see" the net and STOP from entering the danger zone. It may cost time and money, but it will be AMAZING.........

[NNadir]

6. In fact, the wind industry, which has been useless to address climate change, is nothing more...

...than a proposal to render remaining natural spaces into industrial parks.

The wind industry is not sustainable; it is not green; it is ineffective; unreliable and highly polluting, especially since it requires access to either natural gas or energy storage devices, neither of which are remotely sustainable.

The sooner humanity comes to its senses about this garbage, the better our chance of providing something, beyond garbage to clean up, for future generations.

[Finishline42]

7. Still jumping up and down?

This was your stance when Texas was producing less than 1% of their electricity with wind - last year it was over 17%

Iowa produces close to 40% of their electricity via wind.

How many coal plants have been shut down as a result?