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Bat ruling casts shadow on MD wind projects?
A Maryland federal court ruling last week put a severe crimp in an industrial-scale wind project in West Virginia. Could it do the same for smaller projects planned in western Maryland? ...Invenergy issued a statement after the Dec. 8 ruling saying it would seek such a permit, according to The New York Times. In the meantime the judge said the turbines already up could only be operated in winter, when the bats are likely to be hibernating.
December 14, 2009
by Tim Wheeler
in Baltimore Sun
A Maryland federal court ruling last week put a severe crimp in an industrial-scale wind project in West Virginia. Could it do the same for smaller projects planned in western Maryland?
U.S. District Court Judge Roger W. Titus found it "a virtual certainty" that the 122-turbine Beech Ridge facility being built along 23 miles of mountain ridges in Greenbrier County, W.Va., would violate the federal Endangered Species Act by killing Indiana bats. Construction is already under way on the $300 million, 186-megawatt project being developed by Invenergy, a Chicago-based company said to be one of the five largest wind developers... [continue via Web link]
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