[Old School]

Those adorable Indiana bats, god bless them are the center of attention once again, only this time enviro's are not after coal companies, but other environmentalist who are behind the construction of an 124 turbines along 23 miles of Greenbrier County ridgelines. These same environmentalist who are propontents of the wind farms have delayed or stopped coal mining permits for over a decade, over the Indiana bats, and now they are fighting one of their own. I LOVE IT.

Environmentalist groups have filed a federal lawsuit to require operators of a proposed West Virginia wind farm to obtain a “takings” permit under the Endangered Species Act before they can begin operations.
According to the Animal Welfare Institute and Mountain Communities for Responsible Energy, the proposed Beech Ridge Energy wind farm in Greenbrier County will disrupt the habitat and likely kill an unacceptable number of endangered Indiana bats.


Beech Ridge Energy plans to construct 124 turbines—each 390 feet tall—along a 23-mile stretch of mountain ridge tops.

According to the environmental groups, a local cave expert has identified 27 caves within five miles of the project site, and another 113 caves between five and 10 miles from the site, that serve as Indiana bat habitat.
In addition to deaths caused by wind turbine blades directly striking bats, the lawsuit alleges the whirring of gigantic turbine blades will create low-pressure zones that cause bats’ lungs to hemorrhage, killing them almost instantly.


http://www.heartland.org/publications/en...s_Act.html