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Judge halts W.Va. wind farm due to endangered bats
AP on SFGate.com ^ | 12/9/09 | AP

Posted on 12/09/2009 7:48:27 PM PST by NormsRevenge

Work on a West Virginia wind power project has been halted by a federal judge who sided with environmentalists' claim that the project would harm an endangered bat.

U.S. District Judge Roger Titus issued the order Tuesday, citing potential harm to the federally endangered Indiana bat.

John Stroud, co-chairman of one of the environmental groups that filed the lawsuit, Mountain Communities for Responsible Energy, said group members were "really delighted with the ruling."

"We've been working on this for a while and the judge saw things our way, and we're really pleased," said Stroud, a rare book dealer who owns a farm a mile and a half from the wind power site.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: bats; endangered; moonbats; obama; westvirginia; windfarm
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To: Lakeshark

They did both; some were used to power a generator to charge batteries for DC systems on the farm; the majority were for pumping water. Wincharger/Winco was probably the best known


41 posted on 12/10/2009 2:04:13 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3
Aeons ago, before the US Postal Service shoved its boring two-letter designations for each state down our throats, "W. Va." would have been a common abbreviation for your State's name, as "Penn." or even "Penna." for a certain State to your north.

So ... some folks don't know that WV (AKA W.Va.) is its own State ...

1) Until "The Late Unpleasantness", it wasn't. And when it did become a State (by seceding from a bunch of secessionists), "West Virginia" wasn't the first name proposed for the new State.

2) Some folks have it even worse than you ... many people seem to think that "New Mexico" is not even one of these United States.

42 posted on 12/10/2009 2:31:22 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I was watching Storm Chasers on the Discovery Channel.

One location shot somewhere in the Mid West caught a wind farm in the background.

Windmills as far as you could see.
I can see where migrating birds would be decimated trying to negotiate them.

Plus they are an extreme eyesore.


43 posted on 12/10/2009 2:58:28 AM PST by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: NormsRevenge
Reminds me of the ol' "Snail Darter" issue that delayed the TVA's Telico Dam project for years, and the "Furbian Lousewort" in the book "Short Circuit", where a bird species was protected until the power capacity shortage led to a near-national blackout.

We can allow these wacko enviro's to create public suffering, but we gotta protect creatures that are more important than humans....

Only the Lefties can cause such crap, while political correctness accomodates it.

44 posted on 12/10/2009 3:25:27 AM PST by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Somewhere out west the wind machines were killing Bald Eagles.


45 posted on 12/10/2009 5:14:41 AM PST by RoadTest (Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 3:3)
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To: Vinnie

Economy of scale and a need for lots of ‘em to create any significant large amounts of power, like solar panels that also require lots of space to develop levels of power that can sustain loads.. better to build a nuke.

The trade-off ,, as you mentioned.


46 posted on 12/10/2009 8:24:20 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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To: ArrogantBustard

“Some folks have it even worse than you ... many people seem to think that “New Mexico” is not even one of these United States.”

That is just sad.


47 posted on 12/10/2009 9:32:20 AM PST by christianhomeschoolmommaof3 (Best thing about Cash for Clunkers is that 90% of the Obama bumper stickers are now off the road.)
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To: nolib1776

You are right. I guess I just like WV better for some reason. I still sometimes get mails with W.Va. on the envelope.


48 posted on 12/10/2009 9:43:33 AM PST by christianhomeschoolmommaof3 (Best thing about Cash for Clunkers is that 90% of the Obama bumper stickers are now off the road.)
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