Prairie Chicken Mating Dance Threatens Texas Projects

(Bloomberg) -- Iberdrola SA and E.ON AG’s turbine dreams for the windswept Texas Panhandle may be stymied by the mating rituals of the lesser prairie chicken.

Wind-power developers such as E.ON are scouring sagebrush and grasslands for the presence of ground-dwelling chickens that could impede turbine construction plans. Once plentiful in the southern high plains, the bird has a high priority for listing under the Endangered Species Act, which would put at risk where as much as $11 billion in turbines that are part of the U.S.’s renewable-energy push can be built.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a9Ig1kaaTSqY

Now I know. Those who don't want to compete with wind energy stand to keep their profitable status quo.

HD is a wildlife biologist. He spends time working where such birds live. He knows the score, but has wondered who is pushing a lot of data he knows to be false.

Cui bono

and has been battling a lot of agencies that are using bad science. Was wondering who/what was pushing the agenda. It all makes sense now. As always, follow money and know money will use well intentioned people as surly at it will use ignorant fools.

"spinning environmental impacts on local wildlife to kneecap wind farm development?"

It sounded like the kind of comment with a longer story behind it.

As in, is there serious dispute over the nature of vertical structure avoidance behavior in prairie chickens? Things like that, of course.

when they try to see to the top of those things. They surely can't fly that high.

Wind Power BLOWS.

See the following:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/25/wind-turbine-bats.html
http://www.keepersoftheblueridge.com/faqs.html
http://www.nortexwind.org/index.htm
http://www.stopillwind.org/index.php
http://windconcernsontario.wordpress.com/
http://www.savewesternny.org/
http://www.wind-watch.org/
http://www.epaw.org/
http://www.windturbinesyndrome.com/?p=166
http://www.rivercitymalone.com/?p=654
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/04/21/the-unbearable-lightness-of-wi
http://notesfromotherside.blogspot.com/2009/04/more-on-renewable-energy.html
http://www.pest-03.org/ (Power Engineers Supporting Truth)

Or just watch this series of videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNxvkrgoPLo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_utFV2ukOtU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOd5tSZF3A4&feature=related

There's more, but you get the idea. :)

The United States is a LIBERAL Country.

:dem:

-Laelth

...this calls for a semi-nude picture of a useless consumer activist washed up starlet promoting the vegan lifestyle in the E&E forum...

environmental thread about the washed up starlet, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x206369
">a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very deep and meaningful OP and clicked on the link therein, only to find that the header for the web page was, well, http://blog.peta.org/archives/2009/08/alicia_silverst.php">a chicken...

You can't make this stuff up.

If you click on the link within the link, the one that says, um, http://www.peta.org/feat/alicia_psa/index.asp">Naked Vegan, you can access a video of a
naked starlet at her huge piggishly sized McMansion swimming pool climbing out of the pool while butt assed naked. I kid you not.

I have one question about the video that needs answering:

Are those solar pool lights on the McMansion walls in the background?

One hopes so. One wouldn't want a naked vegan washed up starlet illuminated by any other kind of pool light than a solar pool light.

She could sell this video probably to Home Depot as part of a solar pool light commercial, don'cha think?

and he says it's 100% structure avoidance.

Enough towers and they'll have nowhere to go.

we are "slivering" the wild to death

i have little hope for prairie chickens considering they are assailed on all sides...a look upthread is enough to discourage me

we actually do need spaces in this world where the wind can blow without being owned and captured but almost no one groks that

Is the equally crazy idea that 15 foot diameter towers spaced 1/2 mile apart are "slivering the wild to death".

Are those evil trees equally dangerous?

But you're right, let's just continue pumping GHGs until we get the planet hot enough to roast them without an oven. That's a much better and more environmentally friendly approach.