Ted Williams reporting on windmill 'green energy': A Mighty Wind - "current annual bat morality from U.S. wind farms at 888,000 and bird mortality at 573,000, including 83,000 raptor fatalities." (But this is not the worst of it: All such 'green' projects, whether carpooling or 'smart growth,' get re-purposed by our mass migration policies to see how many more hundreds of millions of people we can shoehorn into the US while slightly postponing but making more inevitable our environmental, economic and cultural obliteration. Such 'green' projects, without opposing open borders, help to camouflage worsening overpopulation and serves to further enable our open-borders overlords. To coin a phrase: globalist zombie environmentalism.)

Green Energy: Can We Save the Planet and Save Birds?

Wildlife-smart wind power may be as close as it gets to "green energy." But over vast swaths of America, the "smart" part is still more hot air than reality--especially when it comes to raptors.

BY TED WILLIAMS

Published: March-April 2014

"All wind projects, no matter where they are, kill birds. The questions become how many, what kinds, and is the mortality 'acceptable'?" So declares wind developer Christian Herter, president of the Massachusetts-based Linekin Bay Energy Company. If the word "acceptable" sounds provocative, bear in mind that a project Herter's company helped plan for northern Maine called Aroostook Wind Energy may well represent the best approach for the planet and, in the long run, for birds as well.

An accomplished birder himself, Herter also has impeccable credentials as an environmentalist. Before the wind-industry boom, he served as an environmental educator for the National Park Service, then a public affairs agent for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, then executive director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, and finally Audubon's New England regional rep. So it's no surprise that Aroostook Wind Energy is wildlife-smart. Turbines will sit on old clearcuts near flat land already disturbed by potato farming. Of course birds reside and migrate throughout the footprint, but relatively few compared with, say, Wyoming's Shirley Basin or the northern Everglades or the Lake Erie Western Basin Important Bird Area or California's Tehachapi Mountains or the bald-eagle migration corridor in southeastern Minnesota--all places where new wind farms have been constructed or permitted.

For such a non-polluting energy source, wind has become surprisingly divisive within the environmental community. One faction ac- curately observes that "wind energy is not green if it is killing hundreds of thousands of birds" (to borrow the words of the American Bird Conservancy). Another, lasered in on climate change, shouts for more wind farms everywhere. . . .

http://www.audubonmagazine.org/articles/climate/green-energy-can-we-save-planet-and-save-birds