It's getting to be an old story: greens fighting efforts to produce "green" renewable energy due to some environmental concern. I am utterly convinced greens won't be happy until everyone is living by the buzz of a single compact florescent bulb.
Anyway, in West Virginia a man wanted to put up a wind farm. But, as AP via the Washington Post explains, it didn't quite work out:
A Maryland developer has agreed not to build 24 turbines and will abandon 31 proposed sites at a West Virginia wind farm, settling a lawsuit by environmental groups worried about potential harm to the endangered Indiana bat . . .
Beech Ridge Energy also agreed to operate turbines only during the bats' annual hibernation period, from mid-November to March 31, when they are not migrating.
So Beech Ridge Energy can only run turbines for less than half the year and can't have as many turbines as they'd like, to protect a bat. This after probably investing millions in the turbines he can put up.
So do green meanies want "clean" energy? Or do they want to control your life? I think the latter.
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