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Save the Bats!

Posted on | December 23, 2010 | 10 Comments

They’re not cute and cuddly like baby seals, but we don’t want to kill them, do we?

Conservationists filed suit Wednesday to block the start of Maryland’s first industrial wind project, contending the turbines built atop the state’s highest mountain in Garrett County threaten to harm federally protected rare bats.
Making good on a threat issued months ago, two groups — Save Western Maryland and the Maryland Conservation Council — and two individuals brought suit against Constellation Energy in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, contending that its wind turbines will “almost certainly” injure or kill Indiana bats, which are so few in number that they are legally protected under the federal Endangered Species Act.

Wind energy is a waste of time and money, made economically feasible only by government “green energy” subsidies.

So for the first time in my life, I’m grateful for the Endangered Species Act. Anything that prevents tax-mooching swindlers from building more of these stupid wind-farm projects is OK with me.

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  • Joe

    I actually like the endangered species act (although I think it should have a takings clause that pays land owners who get their property “taken” as a result of it). If the endangered species are worth protecting, then it is worth all of us paying for it.

    Wind turbines are a big fat waste of money. Until we can figure out how to economically store electric power, an intermittent system like wind generation is more expensive than any benefit it generates. Corporate whores like GE, Seimens, and others love the government subsidies because it gives them the ability to milk both sides of the market and sell these systems to government. We of course, pay the cost of these feel good but worthless systems.

    I like bats. They eat mosquitos. More bats baby, more bats.

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    Joe beat me to it..

    Bats eat skeeters.. Mo bats, mo better.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385852725 Richard Mcenroe

    When I saw that headline, I thought you were taking this whole “crawl to the feminists” thing a little too far…

  • http://twitter.com/JSF1970 Joseph Fein

    RS,

    If you change the title to your post to “Release the Bats,”, you have a Goth club based near @AmPowerBlog:

    http://theunclean.com/directory/nightclubs/release-the-bats-nightclub-in-long-beach/130/

    Also, have the Granola Lefties ever approved of Wind farms near their neighborhoods? (See Martha’s Vineyard and San Francisco for hypocritical Granola lefties).

  • Johnl

    It takes a pretty small footprint to provide the coal, oil, and gas that it takes to run a modern economy. To do the same thing with wind, solar, and biofuel, you have to consume the entire wilderness with energy plantations.

  • Anonymous

    This. So much this. All mosquitoes must die.

  • http://www.redstateeclectic.typepad.com AngelaTC

    Bats are really very, very good at not hitting things. I love watching special interest death matches, but I’m not convinced that bats would die.

  • David

    As Kissinger said, “Too bad they both can’t lose.”

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  • http://ak4mc.us/2c/2011/ McGehee

    Bats are really very, very good at not hitting things.

    And yet the Louisville variety, just across the river from Indiana, is in no way endangered…

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