This is the reason we need to keep talking about it. While the conservationist media has often mentioned potential drawbacks to wind power development, I honestly cannot recall an example from the mainstream media in which dead birds and bats have even been mentioned in the same breath as “wind power.”

Wind power is slightly olive-drab – it is NOT green. Currently, there are tremendous subsidies available for landowners and developers that are making the development profitable; meanwhile not one traditional (e.g. coal fired) power plant has _not_ been built because wind was able to supply the full power needs of some area. The biggest problem, however, is that our best wind resource areas coincide with expansive habitats for native species – habitats that are being dangerously fragmented in the name of this “green” energy.

There are simply places on this earth where wind turbines and transmission lines should NOT be built.