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September 5, 2007
Moonbats Tilt at Windmills
Posted by Dave Blount at September 5, 2007 7:20 AM
It looks like windmills will not be the solution to our imaginary ecological crisis.
As noted yesterday, in addition to regarding fossil fuels and nuclear power with horror, moonbats oppose dams because they supposedly make it be too hot out and windmills because they inconvenience ground squirrels and wreck the view from the mansions of limousine liberals like Ted Kennedy and Walter Cronkite.
Now we learn that there are plenty more reasons to stand in righteous opposition to Gaia-raping windmills, and I'm not referring to their inefficiency. A moonbat activist in Cairnbrook, Pennsylvania
fears that a Gamesa Energy USA proposal to build 30 wind turbines on nearby Shaffer Mountain could endanger the hawks, falcons and, especially, the eastern golden eagles that fly low to feed along the Allegheny Front.
The problems don't stop there:
Many residents also oppose the project because of concerns about degradation of two "exceptional value" streams, impacts on the endangered Indiana bat, flashing strobe lights on the turbine towers, blade noise, forest fragmentation, tourism, aesthetics and even rattlesnakes.
Yet by goofing around with windmills, power companies are only obeying liberal bureaucrats' demands.
By law, the state must produce 18 percent of its energy from alternative sources by 2020, and the Rendell administration's goal is to boost wind power production to more than 3,000 megawatts during the next 15 years. That would require construction of about 1,400 wind turbines.
What a hassle life must be for the people who generate the power that makes our comfy lives possible. Imagine if they just said, "You're right, creating electricity oppresses bats and rattlesnakes. We're not going to do it anymore."
Not even liberals would like the consequences.
On a tip from Reid.
