News
Environmental community split over wind farm
Some want renewable energy fast; others want to slow down to check on birds.
May 9, 2006
by Asher Price
in Austin American-Statesman
When the state's General Land Office signed a deal last fall to develop 50 wind turbines off the coast of Galveston, it seemed like the kind of green energy project all environmentalists would applaud. The $220 million wind farm, small as it will be, could power 40,000 homes, relying on the fuel in the air rather than on oil or coal.
But Galveston sits beneath a critical migratory bird path that links North America to wintering areas in Central and South America, and the prospect of the turbines, each rising hundreds of feet from the sea, has divided the environmental... [continue via Web link]
| < prev | next > |
Note: this article may be subject to the Fair Use Notice.